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Author: Terry Deary
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Terry Deary _ USA
Lincoln died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in a Ford car.
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Terry Deary _ USA
{This is a bit like bribing the other team's best players to leave the pitch as soon as you start the match! Not much of a game!}
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Terry Deary _ Ruthless Romans
Yet the Romans did something the heart-ripping Aztecs and the Spanish burners didn't do … they killed people for fun! The Romans made murder into a sport. They built wonderful buildings like the Colosseum, filled them with happy Romans and then massacred thousands of people and animals for entertainment.
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Terry Deary _ England
The English went out and conquered a quarter of the Earth just to escape the rain. They always went for the hot places – Australia, Africa, India. But here's the funny thing about the English … many of them like to take a bit of their Englishness with them wherever they go. All around the world these sad people build English pubs and serve 'Full English Breakfasts' in the morning and 'Fish and Chips' for lunch or dinner {or both}. Some of them don't seem to trust 'foreign' people, which is a bit odd. ALL the people in England were 'foreign' at one time.
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Terry Deary _ Awful Egyptians
But Djoser was king of South Egypt and North Egypt. To keep the people in both parts of the country happy he had to be buried in two different tombs. His body was entombed in the north, and his canopic jars had their own temple 100 metres to the south.
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Terry Deary _ Awful Egyptians
The Egyptians treated her like a pharaoh even though she was from a Greek family and a woman. She worshipped the gods of Egypt.
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Terry Deary _ Awesome Egyptians
There is proof that these early kings were taller and had much larger heads than the peasants of Egypt!"
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Terry Deary _ Dangerous Days in Elizabethan
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.' John Webster {c.1580–1634}, English Jacobean dramatist
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Terry Deary _ Scotland
love Mary and die… Mad about Mary – 1 Many Scottish lords became Protestant because it gave them a chance to grab more power. But the Earl of Huntly stayed loyal. 'I'll bring the Catholic Church back to three counties!' he boasted. Then he suggested that Mary might like to marry his son, John Gordon. Brilliant idea! Powerful Catholic lord
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Terry Deary _ USA
CCC wanted everyone to believe that he had done what he set out to do – sailed west to find Japan in the east. He made his men swear an oath…
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Terry Deary _ Awful Egyptians
Pyramidiots Some history books will tell you that the Egyptians were great at maths – even better than your teacher. Here's why they think the Egyptians were such brainy boffins… People who believe the pyramids have magical secrets are called 'pyramidologists'. They started investigating the pyramids in the 1850s and modern pyramidologists are still selling millions of books around the world. The Horrible Histories truth is … they are pyramidiots. The pyramids don't measure 365.242 sacred cubits. The pyramidiots didn't check their facts – they are as potty as the people who say…
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Terry Deary _ Groovy Greeks
Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.
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