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Popular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin's weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a foam rubber cheesehead, a worm that plays basketball, and the best place to savor chicken in a hubcap.
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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Windy City has to offer! Whether you're a born-and-raised Chicagoan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, “Chicago Curiosities” will have you laughing out loud as Scotti Cohn takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Windy City.
Watch Daedalus and Icarus fly across the façade of the Savings of America Building-and wonder...
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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Wolverine State has to offer! Whether you're a born-and-raised Michiganite, a recent transplant, or just passing through, “Michigan Curiosities” will have you laughing out loud as Colleen Burcar takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sites in the Wolverine State. Experience some raucous festivals that celebrate everything from Elvis and Jimmy...
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Utah Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affection-and a healthy dose of attitude-the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history. A fun, accessible read, Utah Curiosities is a who's who of unusual and unsung heroes. This compendium of the state's quirks and characters will amuse Utah's residents and visitors alike.
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"With humor and affection--and a healthy dose of attitude-- Texas Curiosities brings the oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history. From the world's largest squirrel (property of Cedar Creek) to the world's oldest washing machine (at the Washing Machine Museum in Mineral Wells), Texas Curiosities is a who's who of unusual and unsung heroes...
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Whether you're a born-and-raised Alaskan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Alaska Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as B. B. Mackenzie takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Last Frontier State. Catch a glimpse of the ghost ship Clara Nevada, lost in a storm in 1898 while carrying a cargo of gold from the Klondike.
Watch a baseball game on the longest day of the year in Fairbanks.
Witness the Running...
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Saguaro cacti, desert landscapes, and the Grand Canyon may stand out as prominent Arizona features, but this scorching state is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Arizona Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.
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Humorists Tim Sample and Steve Bither reveal the wild and wacky side of Maine. Describing approximately 300 oddities-people, places, animals, historic tidbits, and trivia-their unique perspective and witty narrative is highly entertaining. From the Society for the Preservation of the Black Fly to a jeweler whose medium is moose droppings, this is a great read for anyone who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
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This definitive collection of the Old Dominion's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things is filled with quirky photographs throughout and maps for each region. Virginia Curiosities includes humorous state facts and amusing stories and serves as a combination almanac, off-the-wall travel guide, and wacky news gazette.
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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the North Star State has to offer!
Visit an art gallery of underground graffiti; an eight-story-tall Iron Man sculpture; and some beautifully designed, no-real-name-for-them architectural oddities.
Meet an artistic, creature-creating welder; a fast-thinking curator of a fishing museum; and a cow-figurine-collecting newspaper editor.
Discover the fun of constructing...