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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Author: Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess - especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today.  How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost.  For example: — It is believed that Henry VIII...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780545486330
ISBN-10: 0545486335
Publication Date: 9/2012
Pages: 184
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3.9 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Scolastic Inc.
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a fun read. Judging from vocabulary and sentence structure, it seems aimed at the younger teen reader -- but it's well worth reading. There are unusual historical insights one never sees in a standard history book.
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Find out about the famous deaths of: King Tut Julius Caesar Cleopatra Christopher Columbus Henry VIII Elizabeth I Pocahontus Galileo Galilei Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marie Antoinette George Washingtoin Napoleon Buonaparte Ludwig Van Beethoven Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens James A. Garfield Charles Darwin Marie Curie Albert Einstein


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