Authors: Joe Rhatigan
Bizarre History (25 page)
Poliakoff, Michael B.
Combat Sports in the Ancient World.
Bethany, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Powell, Michael.
Curious Events in History.
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2008.
Roberts II, John B.
Rating the First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced the Presidency.
New York: Citadel Press, 2003.
Sheinkin, Steve.
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About the Civil War.
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
St. George, Judith.
So You Want to Be President?
New York: Philomel Books, 2000.
Thornton, Brian.
The Book of Bastards: 101 Worst Scoundrels and Scandals from the World of Politics and Power.
Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2010.
Vennson, Anne Cipriano.
United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia.
New York: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1995.
335 Years’ War, 112
Adams, John, 19-20, 30
Adams, John Quincy, 49, 63
Al-Qaddafi, Muammar, 36
Amin, Idi, 59-60
Antoinette, Marie, 87-88
Apollo 13, 143
Archimedes, 123-124
Basquete, Lina, 60-61
Baseball, 91-92
Battle of the Bulge, 101-102
Bethlem Royal Hospital, 71-72
Blahyi, Joshua Milton, 124-125
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 36, 90, 132
Booth, Edwin, 147-149
Booth, John Wilkes, 144
Borden, Lizzie, 92
Boyd, Maria “Belle”, 115-117
Brooks, Preston, 52-53
Brown, Henry, 142-143
Burr, Aaron, 28
Bush, Neil, 42
Caligula, 42-45
Carter, Billy, 40-41
Carter, Jimmy, 38-39, 40, 50
Carter, Rosalynn, 62-63
Catherine the Great, 87
Charles II, 49
Charles VI, 37
Charles the Fat, 16
Charles the Simple, 16
Civil War, 104-105, 112, 115-117, 126, 140-141
Cleveland, Grover, 17
Clinton, William, 17
Coolidge, Calvin, 50, 64
Cures, ancient, 74-75
De Poitiers, Diane, 61-62
Declaration of Independence, 132-135
Doubleday, Abner, 91
Drakulya III, Vlad, 81-82
Drunken War, 120
Dueling, 55-56
Ethelred the Unready, 16
Extramarital affairs, 24-25, 28
Fashion, 77-80
Ferdinand, Franz, 129-130
Foo Fighters, 114-115
Football War, 100
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 104
Founding Fathers, 7, 28-29, 132-135, 143-144
Franklin, Benjamin, 30
Frederick II, 48-49
Gacy, John Wayne, 62-63
Garfield, James, 50
Graham, Calvin, 122-123
Great Emu War, 113-114
Griswold, Roger, 53-55
Hamilton, Alexander, 28, 55
Harding, Warren, 50
Harrison, Benjamin, 64
Harrison, William, 136-137
Hayes, Lucy, 61
Hedley, J. H., 122
Heliogabalus, 20-22
Henri II, 61-62
Henry IV, 17
Henry VI, 37, 101
Henry VIII, 141-142
Hitler, Adolf, 60-61, 101-102, 126
Hoover, Herbert, 65
Hyde, Edward, 23
Ibrahim I, 31-32
Ivanovna, Anna, 33, 35
Jackson, Andrew, 18, 63, 135-136
Jefferson Thomas, 19-20, 29, 41, 63
Jefferson, Randolph, 41
John III, 95-96
Johnson, Andrew, 64
Johnson, Lyndon, 41-42, 66
Johnson, Richard, 25
Johnson, Sam Houston, 41-42
Jong II, Kim, 36, 50-52
Justin II, 45
Kennedy, John F., 4-25
Khan, Genghis, 26-27, 36
King, Charles D. B., 19
Lead poisoning, 68-69
Lincoln, Abraham, 41, 55, 64, 139-140, 144
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 41
Lincoln, Robert, 147-149
Long-sleeved Kimono Fire, 81
Louis XI, 75-76
Louis XV, 17
Ludwig II, 45
Lyon, Matthew, 53-55
Magellan, Ferdinand, 86
Mary, Queen of England, 17
McKinley, Ida, 61
Mercury poisoning, 69
Merkel, Angela, 36
Musical instruments, 75-76
Nelson, Horatio, 111
Nero, 27
New France, 132
Nineteenth Amendment, 130-131
Nixon, Don, 42
Nixon, Richard, 35, 42, 56-58
O’Neill, James, 103
Patton, George S., 103
Peter I, 33-34, 35, 82-83
Pichegru, Jean-Charles, 110
Pig War, 108-109
Pledge of Allegiance, 90-91
Pork and Beans War, 108
Predictions, 137-139
Presidential pets, 63-66
Putin, Vladimir, 36
Quick comebacks, 47
Quicksilver, 101-102
Ramses II, 118-120
Reagan, Nancy, 62
Reagan, Ronald, 38-40, 62
Religion, 83-84
Revere, Paul 88-89
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 36, 65-66
Roosevelt, Theodore, 64, 146-147
Ross, Betsy, 86-87
Sacred Band, 123
Salem Witch Trials, 145
Sedgwick, John, 112
Selling wives, 67-68
Sports, 72-73
Sticky bomb, 115
Sumner, Charles, 52-53
Taft, William, 64
Tasadays, 93-95
Thirty Years’ War, 109-110
Thurmond, Strom, 56
Tojo, Hideki, 105-107
Torture, medieval, 69-71
Tsunayoshi,
Tokugawa, 31
Tuck, Dick, 56-58
UFOs, 38-40
Van Buren, Martin, 63
War of 1812, 121-122
War of the Oaken Bucket, 107
Washington, George, 25, 29, 35, 100-101
Watergate, 58
Whipping boy, 74
White House tub, 93
William the Conqueror, 32
Wilson, Edith, 62
Wilson, Woodrow, 64
Witch of Ridley Creek, 145-146
World War I, 117-118, 122
World War II, 101-102, 105, 114-115, 126, 145
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 120-121
Yarborough, Ralph, 56
York, Alvin Cullum, 117-118