Summary: "From sunset at Stonehenge to the steps of the Forbidden City, see the wonders of the world and the people who built and used them brought back to life in stunning detail. Discover humanity's greatest monuments restored to their former glory in this guide to the wonders of the world. Incredible History: Wonders of the World turns back time to reveal realistic reconstructions of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Every country profile is packed with photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world it is. At-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the stats, and the easy-to-read text is full of fascinating, fun facts."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: Describes the Seven Wonders of the World, providing background and related information, and surveying such modern wonders as the Channel Tunnel, Hoover Dam, Versailles, and the bullet train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Oversized, Call number: J 031.02 ASHSummary: This documentary discusses places thought by the Romans and Greeks to be the most extraordinary structures in antiquity including, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the statue of Zeus, the temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the colossus of Rhodes, the Pharos of Alexandria and the pyramids of Egypt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2006
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Summary: Get off the beaten path, and brush off your bucket list! Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, this volume celebrates the strangest and most curious places in the world. Covering natural wonders, architectural marvels, and mind-boggling events, you'll revel in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel FoerBurcar, Colleen.
Summary: Provides a close-up look at the outrageous people, places, and things that characterize Michigan, offering a wealth of weird facts and whimsical descriptions of frequently overlooked sites and activities in Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Book Publishing 0000
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Rec BurcarSummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Summary: This second edition takes readers to even more curious and unusual destinations, with over one hundred new places, dozens and dozens of new photographs, and two very special features: twelve city guides, covering Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. And a three-panel gatefold with a full-color map augmented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2019
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Summary: "A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels-and the surprising truths behind them. Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights-glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth-embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022