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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Author: Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator)
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess -- especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain, ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780802727947
ISBN-10: 0802727948
Publication Date: 7/3/2012
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Walker Childrens
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a fun read. Judging from vocabulary and sentence structure, it seems aimed at the younger teen reader -- but it's well worth reading. There are unusual historical insights one never sees in a standard history book.
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Find out about the famous deaths of: King Tut Julius Caesar Cleopatra Christopher Columbus Henry VIII Elizabeth I Pocahontus Galileo Galilei Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marie Antoinette George Washingtoin Napoleon Buonaparte Ludwig Van Beethoven Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens James A. Garfield Charles Darwin Marie Curie Albert Einstein


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