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Miscellanea, Curiosities and wonders, HistoryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Milton's teeth & Ovid's umbrella: curiouser and curiouser adventures in history
1996, Simon & Schuster
in English
0684801647 9780684801643
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Table of Contents
Life : death, taxes, graffiti, hair, toothbrushes, teeth, hands
Leisure : football, running, betting, the sporting chance, baseball talk, horse racing, lotteries, chess, cards, cowboys
Celebrations : marriage, birth, vacation, hazing, graduation, April Fool's Day
Implements & symbols : tools, lawns, trees, keys, pets, place-names, dibs!, umbrellas.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256).
Some of the essays originally appeared in earlier versions in the column Points of origin, published in the Smithsonian, 1981-1988.
"A Touchstone book."
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