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The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century

Hardcover • 1999 • English

The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century

By David Wallechinsky

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About the book

Newly revised and updated, an entertaining, offbeat, and colorful overview of the past century offers believe-it-or-not stories, unusual facts, dubious achievements, and other offbeat trivia, presented in more than seven hundred short entries. 40,000 first printing.

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ISBN

9780879519445

Publisher

Overlook Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century

Format

Hardcover

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