Curiosities and wonders
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2. Part 2To obtain material, and to gather strange facts and to portray queer people that go to make up the daily “Believe It or Not” pictures it has been necessary for me to get about t...
3. Part 3Burke got a stiff punching in the twenty-eighth, and from then on up to the forty-fifth round the contest was dull and uninteresting. At the end of the forty-eighth Burke was kn...
4. Part 4They were never satisfied--they always craved more. They starved, struggled, and suffered in their mad scramble, but in the end were no richer than before. Only one in five ever...
5. Part 5He was a celebrated local character of Czortków, Poland, and when he died in 1928, the newspapers of Germany and Poland repeated again the story of his life and of the strange v...
6. Part 6“I was stationed at Deolai, and shared a tent with Lieutenants Le Mare, of the 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, and R. MacDonald, of the Yorkshire Regiment. To us there came one day a...
7. Part 7I returned at night from the Pitch Lake--the “wonder” of the island--a lake of pitch of more than 100 acres furrowed by deep fissures of cool water. These fissures are crossed b...
8. Part 8“We can scarcely conceive how the human race could exist without farinaceous substances, and without that nourishing juice which the breast of the mother contains. The amylaceou...
9. Part 9This celebrated curiosity can be seen in a little churchyard a few miles outside of London. It is located close beside the Parish Church (St. Mary) in Watford, an ancient shrine...
10. Part 10Rameses II, who now serves as a peep-show in the Cairo Museum and as an ad for cigarettes, was once a “ten-billionaire.” Ford, Rockefeller, Croesus, and others, were only pikers...
11. Part 11William Macdonald, an invalid living in Chula Vista, California, has heard 605 broadcasting stations scattered over the world during the last 3 years. He logged 490 United State...