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The People's Almanac

posted by Zed on March 26 2008 21:02

As a lad, I was a big fan of the People’s Almanac series. I recently discovered that there was a relatively recent addition to the series, The People’s Almanac Presents the 20th Century. Not long after taking it out of the library and beginning it, I ordered my own copy. Did you know that the superintendent of the NJ State police that investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping was Norman Schwarzkopf,. father of the Gulf War general?

A lot of content from the series is on-line at Trivia-Library.com, like this year-by-year events in U.S. history.

Here’s a proposed wiki successor that doesn’t appear to have any content yet.

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"Did you know that the superintendent of the NJ State police that investigated the Lindbergh kidnapping was Norman Schwarzkopf, father of the Gulf War general?"

Yes. Yes, I did.

:-)

Posted by Gary Farber [TypeKey Profile Page] on April 17 2008 12:24

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