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Tables of Contents for Weird History 101
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
EYEWITNESS REPORTS
1
36
Eyewitness to Custer's Last Stand
1
9
Dinner with Attila the Hun
10
7
Watching Gettysburg and Other Civil War Battles
17
4
The Heavy Costs of the Civil War
20
1
Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac
21
4
Love Letter from a Dead Man
24
1
Human Sacrifice at a Viking Funeral
25
4
Walt Whitman and President Lincoln's Assassination
29
8
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
37
24
FBI Course in Bomb-Making
37
7
Naval Discipline
44
1
Survival Under Atomic Attack
45
8
A Due Warning Against the Railroads
53
1
A Spv Reveals How Easy It Was to Steal U.S. Secrets
54
7
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS
61
28
Geronimo Tells His Side of the Story
61
6
Escape to Alcatraz
66
1
United States Tried for War Crimes
67
8
Revolutionary War Crimes
74
1
Being Friendly with the Enemy
75
5
A Child's View of War
80
1
Native Americans Versus Western Civilization
80
9
FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS BY FAMOUS PEOPLE
89
34
Wyatt Earp Tells of the Shoot-Out at O.K. Corral
89
12
The Red Baron Describes Being Shot Down
101
6
The Sacking of the White House
107
7
Jack London Witnesses the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
114
4
Mark Twain in Another San Francisco Earthquake
118
1
Charles Dickens Witnesses a Death by Guillotine
119
4
IGNORANCE AND INTELLIGENCE
123
22
Unusual Uses for Mummies
123
3
Take Some Lice and Call Me in the Morning
124
2
Legal Prosecutions of Animals
126
5
Lost Knowledge Rediscovered
131
8
Putting Their Wives Up for Sale
139
6
ODDS AND ENDS
145
16
Duels Between Women
145
6
Female Boxing Matches
150
1
A Dog Is Elected Mayor in California
151
2
Menu for a Roman Banquet
153
2
Houdini's Secrets
155
6
VICTIMS OF HISTORY
161
42
Prisoner on a Slave Ship to America
161
5
Letter from the Donner Party
166
5
Captured by Indians
171
9
The U.S. Army Murders Native Americans
180
6
On the Titanic as it Sinks
186
7
Inside a Nazi Death Camp
193
10
WEIRD LITERATURE
203
28
Gallows Literature
203
6
Some Authentic Pirate Songs
209
6
Pirate Laws
213
2
Bizarre North Korean Propaganda
215
1
John Greenleaf Whittier's Poem About Hash
216
2
Ben Franklin's Advice on Choosing a Mistress
218
8
Franklin on Wine
226
1
Mark Twain's Speech on Masturbation
226
5
PARTICIPANTS IN HISTORY
231
20
Opium Dens in America
231
5
A Pirate's Adventures with Captain Morgan Sacking Panama
236
9
The Supposed Location of Blackbeard's Treasure
244
1
I Started World War I
245
2
Emperor Nero's Mother Pleads for Her Life
247
4
AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
251
28
Extramarital Affairs of the Presidents (and a Few Other Indiscretions)
251
11
Presidential Nicknames
261
1
Another Look at Some Presidents
262
9
Great Turnarounds
270
1
Unintelligible Quotations of U.S. Presidents
271
4
U.S. Presidents Are Not Elected by the People
275
4
Nixon on Watergate
277
2
STRANGE RELIGION
279
34
The X-Rated Bible
279
11
Who's the Antichrist?
289
1
Mormon Polygamy
290
7
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther and the Fairy Changeling
297
3
Weird Saints
300
6
So What Are Saints Good For?
305
1
Phallic Worship in Japan
306
7
INDEX
313