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Contributing Writers: Tom DeMichael, Rhonda Markowitz, Lexi M.
Schuh, Robert Norris, Bryant Smith, Richard Mueller, Katherine Don,
Kimberly Morris, Colleen Delegan, Maya Henderson, Paul Seaburn, James
Duplacey, Martin Graham, Terri Schlichenmeyer, Patricia Martinelli, Kelly
Wittman, Paul Morie, Eric Peterson, Richard Knight, Jr.
Fact-checkers: Brenda Bourg, Kathryn Holcomb, Jennifer McCune,
Keith Potempa, Leigh Smith
Picture credits:
Cover illustrator: Adrian Chesterman
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Contributing illustrator: Robert Schoolcraft
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4127-1526-3
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There's a First Time for Everything
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Out in 90 Seconds: The Story of the Stopwatch Gang
Hearst at His Worst
Syllable Secrets: Etymology
The Not-So-Sweet Story of Candy
Fumbling Felons
How to Electrocute an Elephant
French New Wave Cinema? Mais Oui!
The Brain of Roger Sperry
Fast Facts
Shoot -out at Little Bohemia
From the Vaults of History
Comics Get Marvel-ous in the '60s
The Times They Are A-Changin': 1901
"I'm King of the World!"
Behind the Songs of Our Times
Red Sun Rising
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Beauty Is Pain
The Mystery of Montauk
Strange Justice
Nutty Nietzsche
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Love Can Make You Crazy
Fast Facts
One Big, Happy, Gourmet World
Paganini: 19th-Century Rock Star
How It All Began
A House Is Not a Home
Unless It's Haunted:
The Winchester Mystery House
Evil in the Ink: The Story of EC Comics
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