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How they croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous

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Call Number

920 B8134 TEEN (CEN)

Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Walker & Co., 2011.

Physical Description

184 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents

King Tut : back up the U-haul
Julius Caesar : I as in ides
Cleopatra : #1 across
Christopher Columbus : death by dirt
Henry VIII : who not to marry
Elizabeth I : she kept her head about her
Pocahontas : royal hostage
Galileo Galilei : staying alive
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : every good boy does fine
Marie Antoinette : I did not do it on purpose
George Washington : little mouth of horrors
Napoleon Bonaparte : I hate islands
Ludwig van Beethoven : between those ears
Edgar Allan Poe : Oh woe is Poe
Charles Dickens : the tale of two brains
James A. Garfield : James who?
Charles Darwin : what me worry?
Marie Curie : you glow, girl
Albert Einstein : Einstein = massive cranium?
One more thing.

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