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History with a humorous slant. Almost every line is a laugh. Starts with 1. Cheops, Khufu, Hatshepsut : 2.Ancient Greeks and worse: Pericles, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Nero; 3. Strange bedfellows: Attila, Charlemagne, Lady Godiva, L.Borgia, Philip II of Spain; 4.A Few Greats: Louis IV, Madame Du Barry, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great;5. Merrie England: William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth, George III; 6. Now We're Getting Somewhere: Leif the Lucky, Christopher Columbus, Montezuma, Capt.John Smith, Miles Standish; 7.:They All Had Their Fun: Some Royal Pranks, Some Royal Stomachs. (hardcover: Henry Holt & Co, 1950, and paperback: Dell 1964-? #D257,at least 9 printings. Blurb on pocket edition: "You'll never get as painless and pleasurable a history lesson as you'll get here"_ Saturday Review; "Irreverent and racy"_ Minneapolis Tribune.
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First published: Holt, 1950.
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