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The Flip Side of History
- Strange News, Hard-to-Believe Headlines, and Other Curious Stories from History
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's summary
In this collection of true, quirky history, Steve Silverman provides fascinating tales to astonish and entertain. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories that have been lost to history highlight the quirks, complexities, and curious nature of our species.
Hidden History, Strange Stories, and Hard-to-Believe Headlines
What if there was a flip side to the History Channel? What would you do with all the historical facts and tales left out of history textbooks? From the host of the popular Useless Information podcast, Steve Silverman, comes a collection of fun history facts, strange news, and lost stories.
True stories and random trivia that will entertain or liven up any conversation. In The Flip Side of History, hear about common folk and not-so-common knowledge. In this collection of 30-plus historical events, Steve Silverman provides fascinating stories and easy-to-understand facts. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories highlight the quirks, complexities, and curiousness of man.
Stranger than Stranger Things. The Flip Side of History gives you tales full of strange news, trivia, and facts. Some made newspaper headlines, others were lost in history:
- A prominent lawyer leaves his entire estate to a town for the establishment of a library that forbids women - setting off riots, arrests, and the near hanging of a judge.
- The amazing story of the only person rescued from slavery by the Underground Railroad four times.
- That time a man in the 1950s stole hundreds of women's shoes in Coronado and San Diego, California. The shoes, most of them the left shoe, were found dispersed randomly all over town.
If you're a fan of books like The Book of Unusual Knowledge, Answers to Questions You've Never Asked, Bad Days in History, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, and The Greatest Stories Never Told, then The Flip Side of History is your next listen!
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Great Way To Star a Day!
Listened to a chapter every morning with my coffee and not only learned a lot I also throughly enjoyed every single story! Kevin Kenerly is an absolutely perfect fit a narrator for this book, very warm caring grandfatherly voice!
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