10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

["transmitted coded impulses by satellite to Canada, where they activated a laser beam that \u201cre-created\u201d the Olympic flame. 3 Before the 1956 Melbourne Games, a group of Australian students pulled off the greatest hoax in torch relay history. They fashioned a torch out of a plum pudding can, part of a chair leg and a pair of underpants set aflame. Then one of them joined the relay route, presented the contraption to the mayor of Sydney and slipped into the crowd before anyone realized he was an impostor. 4 The torch was transported under water at the Great Barrier Reef before the 2000 Sydney Games. The specially designed solid-fuel torch operated like a distress flare. 5 The identity of the final torch bearer, who lights the caldron, is kept secret until the opening ceremonies. At the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, many thought Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci would be chosen because her nation was the only East Bloc member that didn\u2019t boycott the event. But U.S. Olympic hero Rafer Johnson won out. Far less attention was paid to the man who later doused the flame. Gas company worker Marv Wig, 59, put it this way: \u201cThere are two switches that both essentially cut the fuel to the flame. I haven\u2019t decided which one I\u2019ll flip. One needs to build a little suspense.\u201d 6 Critics complained that the red-and-yellow caldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games resembled the french-fry containers used by McDonald\u2019s, an Olympic sponsor. 7 Antonio Rebollo, a disabled archer who shot a flaming arrow to light the caldron at the 1992 Barcelona Games, complained days later that he wasn\u2019t given tickets to any competitions, not even archery. A local Olympic committee spokesman responded that Rebollo had been sent a thank-you letter and, \u201cI can only assume he hasn\u2019t gotten the letter yet.\u201d 8 Olympic officials always keep an extra \u201cpure\u201d flame on standby in case a torch goes out. During the 1976 Montreal Olympics, a downpour doused the flame, and an official relit it with a cigarette lighter. Olympic","purists were appalled. They extinguished the unclean flame and relit it the proper way. 9 Yoshinori Sakai, the torch relay runner who lit the caldron for the 1964 Tokyo Games, was born near Hiroshima two hours after the atomic bomb was dropped there. 10 As Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu said, \u201cA journey of 1,000 miles must begin with a single step.\u201d For the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, the journey created one heck of a carbon footprint. According to calculations by wired.com, the Air China A330 jet transporting the Olympic torch burned 462,400 gallons of jet fuel, emitting 11 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Let the Games begin, if only for the sake of the environment. 10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT RUNNING 1 The verb \u201crun\u201d has 645 meanings, more than any other word in the Oxford English Dictionary. In addition to putting one foot in front of the other rapidly, there\u2019s \u201crunning an idea up the flagpole,\u201d \u201cthe days running into weeks,\u201d \u201crunning the numbers,\u201d \u201crunning a fever,\u201d \u201crunning with the wrong crowd\u201d and \u201crunning your mouth.\u201d When early 20th century Australians said they were \u201crunning the rabbit,\u201d that meant they were bringing home liquor. 2 A cheetah runs faster than a sand gazelle, which is speedier than a zebra, which is faster than a kangaroo, which outruns a human, which can outleg a rhino. (This is based on estimated maximum running speeds; do not try at your local zoo.) 3 Dr. Gabe Mirkin, author of \u201cThe Sports Medicine Book,\u201d asked more than 100 elite runners if they would be willing to take a magic pill that","would make them an Olympic champion but would kill them within a year. More than half said yes. 4 The Chicago marathon was called the Mayor Daley Marathon in its first two years. Its first running in 1977 got off to a rocky start: Three people were sent to the hospital with powder burns when the starter\u2019s cannon misfired. 5 \u201cFreak races\u201d were a favorite form of entertainment in 17th and 18th century England. In one race witnessed by the king, two runners were evenly matched: Each had a wooden leg. In another race, a man on stilts faced off against an accomplished runner on foot. In yet another contest, a man was given an hour to run seven miles while carrying 56 pounds of fish on his head. 6 Haitian runner Dieudonne Lamothe was 78th\u2014the final finisher\u2014in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics marathon. And it\u2019s a good thing for Lamothe that he finished. He later revealed that dictator \u201cBaby Doc\u201d Duvalier\u2019s henchman had threatened to kill him if he did not complete the race. 7 Until 1950, a major league baseball player who was on base could be replaced by a \u201ccourtesy runner\u201d without having to leave the lineup. In modern times, a pinch runner is allowed, but the player being replaced is out of the game for good. Perhaps the most unusual pinch runner was Oakland\u2019s Herb Washington, who played in 105 games over two seasons in the 1970s and never came to bat or played the field. A track star, Washington was strictly a pinch-runner. 8 Two great American runners overcame potentially crippling illnesses. Sprinter Gail Devers suffered from Graves\u2019 disease, and doctors were close to amputating her feet before her condition improved and she went on to win Olympic gold in 1992. Decades earlier, sprinter Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics\u2014a glorious fate for a woman who was sickly as a child and wore a leg brace. \u201cMy doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would,\u201d said Rudolph. \u201cI believed my mother.\u201d","9 Ron Paul, the former 12-term congressman and frequent presidential candidate, likes to run. He has run for political office for most of the last four decades, and as a high school junior in Pennsylvania, he raced to a state title in the 220-yard dash. 10 University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman was trying to develop a new athletic shoe, and one day in 1971 he used the family\u2019s waffle iron to meld urethane into a wafflelike tread pattern. The idea caught on for the company he started with Phil Knight. First known as Blue Ribbon Sports, it was renamed Nike. Today, a life-size statue of Bowerman at the university stands on a base of waffle irons. * The Hall of Famers at Wrigley on Oct. 1, 1932, included the Yankees\u2019 Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Red Rufflng, Bill Dickey, Earle Combs, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Joe Sewell and manager Joe McCarthy; the Cubs\u2019 Gabby Hartnett, Burleigh Grimes, Billy Herman and Kiki Cuyler; and umpire Bill Klem.","SOURCES CHAPTER 1: Oddities & Oddballs Conspiracy Theories \u201cConspiracy Films\u201d by Barna William Donovan; \u201cReligion of Fear\u201d by Jason C. Bivins; \u201cNew York Knicks: The Complete Illustrated History\u201d by Alan Hahn; \u201cDead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories\u201d by Michael J. Wood, Karen M. Douglas and Robbie M. Sutton; Texas Monthly; New York magazine; Gallup News Service; USA Today; rogerebert.com; insider.espn.go.com; news.discovery.com; westword.com; worldcat.org; dawn.com; The Washington Post; The Telegraph. Cheaters \u201cFrontier Gambling\u201d by G.R. Williamson; \u201c52 Ways to Cheat at Poker\u201d by Allan Zola Kronzek; \u201cGrafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago\u201d by James L. Merriner; The Associated Press; thetimes.co.uk; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cRobert Kennedy: His Life\u201d by Evan Thomas; \u201cThe Echoing Green\u201d by Joshua Prager; \u201cA Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace\u201d by Ralph Branca and David Ritz; Pew Research Center; Josephson Institute, Character Counts.org; Chicago Tribune; Palm Beach Post; paralympic.org; Tribune archives. Losers \u201cThe New Dickson Baseball Dictionary\u201d by Paul Dickson; \u201cEncyclopedia of the Ancient World\u201d by Shona Grimbly; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; The Wall Street Journal; Las Vegas Review-Journal; Spy magazine; snopes.com; people.com; Tribune archives. Stunts \u201cDictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology\u201d edited by William Smith; \u201cProfiles in Folly: History\u2019s Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong\u201d by Alan Axelrod; \u201cStunt: The Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men\u201d by John Baxter; \u201cHero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation\u201d by William Trimble; \u201cThe Tour de France\u201d by Christopher S. Thompson; \u201cThe Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier\u201d by V.V. Masterson; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; Wisconsin State Journal; New York Daily News; Cowboys & Indians magazine; cnn.com; snopes.com; imdb.com; nationalaviation.org. Selfies \u201cThe Self-Portrait: A Cultural History\u201d by James Hall; theguardian.com; New York magazine; believermag.com; smarthistory.khanacademy.org; \u201cThe Ongoing Moment\u201d by Geoff Dyer; NPR\u2019s Robert Krulwich; PLOS ONE; Library of Congress; usatoday.com; time.com; newyork.cbslocal.com; psycnet.apa.org; HTC One Selfie Phenomenon survey. Predictions \u201cThe History and Power of Writing\u201d by Henri-Jean Martin; \u201cPaper: Paging Through History\u201d by Mark Kurlansky; \u201cThe Guns of August\u201d by Barbara W. Tuchman; \u201cThe Secession Movement in North Carolina\u201d by J.C. Sitterson; \u201cThe Fall of the House of Dixie\u201d by Bruce C. Levine; \u201cEurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes\u201d by Walter Gratzer; \u201cFleet Fire:","Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution\u201d by L.J. Davis; \u201cWith the Beatles\u201d by Alistair Taylor; \u201cSuperforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction\u201d by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner; prb.org; pbs.org; hbr.org; Healthland.time.com; politico.com; billboard.com; Agence France- Presse; Tribune archives. Mascots \u201cBlumenfeld\u2019s Dictionary of Musical Theater\u201d by Robert Blumenfeld; deseretnews.com; tvacres.com; theatlantic.com; sportsillustrated.cnn.com; The Associated Press; Los Angeles Times; Random House Dictionary; drewfriedman.blogspot.com; sfgate.com; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times. Doomsday \u201cThe End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About . . . Before It\u2019s Too Late\u201d by Laura Barcella; \u201cThe End-Of-The-World Delusion: How Doomsayers Endanger Society\u201d by Justin Deering; \u201cThe Official Underground 2012 Doomsday Survival Handbook\u201d by W.H. Mumfrey; \u201cWhen Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture\u201d by Paul S. Boyer; \u201cExpecting Armageddon: Essential Reading in Failed Prophecy\u201d by Jon R. Stone; \u201cApocalypses\u201d by Eugen Weber; \u201cPalm Sunday\u201d by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; Ipsos Global Research; Smithsonian magazine; Chicago Tribune; National Geographic; amherst.edu; nasa.gov; stamfordhistory.org. Sweaters \u201cThe KGB\u2019s Poison Factory\u201d by Boris Volodarsky; \u201cBad Fads\u201d by Mark A. Long; Chicago Tribune; The Sunday Times; \u201cGolf: Four Decades of Sports Illustrated\u2019s Finest Writing on the Game of Golf\u201d; New York magazine; Foreign Policy. Desperadoes \u201cIn Search of Butch Cassidy\u201d by Larry Pointer; \u201cDigging Up Butch and Sundance\u201d by Anne Meadows; \u201cDillinger: The Untold Story\u201d by G. Russell Girardin and William J. Helmer; \u201cTo Serve and Collect\u201d by Richard C. Lindberg; \u201cTo Inherit the Earth\u201d by Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford; \u201cEncyclopedia of Chess Wisdom\u201d by Eric Schiller; \u201cThe Arkansas Journey\u201d by Trey Berry; Time magazine; Americas magazine; The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.; Toronto Sun; New Zealand Herald; drinksmixer.com, britannica.com; news.bbc.co.uk; pbs.org; dictionary.reference.com; imdb.com. Stanleys \u201cSomebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando\u201d by Stefan Kanfer; snopes.com; nhl.com; Tribune archives. Underwear \u201cHow Underwear Got Under There: A Brief History\u201d by Kathy Shaskan; \u201cUnmentionables: A Brief History of Underwear\u201d by Elaine Benson and John Esten; \u201cOrigins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language\u201d by Patricia T. O\u2019Conner and Stewart Kellerman; \u201cThe Book of Answers\u201d by Barbara Berliner with Melinda Corey and George Ochoa; \u201cUnderwear: A Fashion History\u201d by Alison Carter; fashionencyclopedia.com; vintageadsandstuff.com; snopes.com; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; The Dallas Morning News; New York Post; Tribune archives. Atheists \u201cAtheists, Agnostics, and Deists in America\u201d by Peter M. Rinaldo; The New York Sun; cnn.com; Tribune archives and news services. April Fools\u2019 Day museumofhoaxes.com; snopes.com; infoplease.com; The Independent; St. Paul Pioneer Press; babyblues.com; WXRT-FM 93.1; Tribune news services. CHAPTER 2: The Human Condition","Blame \u201cThe Blame Game\u201d by Ben Dattner with Darren Dahl; \u201cScapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People\u201d by Charlie Campbell; Encyclopedia of Chicago; greatchicagofire.org; \u201cThe Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O\u2019Leary\u2019s Cow\u201d by Richard F. Bales; The Wall Street Journal; Tribune archives; jewishencyclopedia.com. Distractions \u201cRed Herrings & White Elephants\u2014The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day\u201d by Albert Jack; \u201cNew Literacies Around the Globe: Policy and Pedagogy\u201d edited by Cathy Burnett, Julia Davies, Guy Merchant and Jennifer Rowsell; National Transportation Safety Board; Harvard University\u2019s Center on the Developing Child; Daniel Engber at slate.com; Sam Anderson at nymag.com: Annie Murphy Paul at pbs.org; The New York Times; New York magazine; skinema.com. Lies \u201cThe Liar in Your Life\u201d by Robert Feldman; \u201cThey Never Said It\u201d by Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George; \u201cHow We Know What Isn\u2019t So\u201d by Thomas Gilovich; \u201cWhy We Lie\u201d by David Livingstone Smith; \u201cThe Divided Berlin 1945-1990\u201d by Oliver Boyn; \u201cClosed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement\u201d by Alan Dowty; \u201cThe Second Arab Awakening\u201d by Adeed Dawisha; \u201cEuphemania\u201d by Ralph Keyes; \u201cDictionary of Euphemisms\u201d by R.W. Holder; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cDictionary of Contemporary Slang\u201d by Tony Thorne; Boston Herald; Los Angeles Times; nytimes.com; theguardian.com; english.al-akhbar.com. Gaffes \u201cFootball Hall of Shame 2\u201d by Bruce Nash; Chicago Tribune; The Washington Post; The New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; Agence France-Presse; The Guardian; Detroit Free Press; usnews.com; poynter.org; jimromenesko.com; ibnlive.in.com; snopes.com. Fear \u201cFear: A Cultural History\u201d by Joanna Bourke; Playboy interview with Ray Bradbury; \u201cIsaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction\u201d by James Gunn; \u201cBuried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear\u201d by Jan Bondeson; \u201cThe Word Lover\u2019s Delight\u201d by the Editors of the Captivate Network; \u201cSafire\u2019s Political Dictionary\u201d by William Safire; \u201cNothing to Fear: FDR\u2019s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America\u201d by Adam Seth Cohen; \u201cFDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address\u201d by Davis W. Houck; \u201cAlfred Hitchcock: Interviews\u201d edited by Sidney Gottlieb; Tribune archives; Popular Science; Nature.com; Boingboing.net; thesmokinggun.com. Sweat \u201cLifestyle Medicine,\u201d 2nd edition, edited by James M. Rippe; \u201cPreventive Dermatology\u201d edited by Robert A. Norman; \u201cFitness and Health\u201d by Brian J. Sharkey and Steven E. Gaskill; \u201cDisgusting Things: A Miscellany\u201d by Don Voorhees; \u201cLetters to a Young Gymnast\u201d by Nadia Comaneci; \u201cThe Quote Verifier\u201d by Ralph Keyes; \u201cGreek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport\u201d by David Sansone; \u201cThe Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America\u201d by James Sullivan; \u201cFlash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy\u201d by Robert Farris Thompson; NBC News; twitter.com; yahoo.com; miamiherald.com; cleveland.com. Apologies \u201cThe Politics of Official Apologies\u201d by Melissa Nobles; \u201cLives of the Popes\u201d by Richard P. McBrien; \u201cThe Church in History\u201d by B.K. Kuipe; \u201cMea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and Reconciliation\u201d by Nicholas Tavuchis; \u201cCash: The Autobiography\u201d by Johnny Cash; \u201cThe Art of the Public Grovel\u201d by Susan Wise Bauer; \u201cThe Role of Apology in International Law\u201d by Richard B. Bilder; americanrhetoric.com; upenn.com; wsj.com; metronews.ca; pinstripealley.com; nj.com; usmagazine.com; Chicago Tribune; BBC News; Los Angeles Times. Tattoos \u201cAmerican Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History\u2019s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers\u201d by Marc Hartzman; \u201cMaori Tattooing\u201d by H.G. Robley; \u201cBodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community\u201d by Margo DeMello; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; The Guardian; Business Wire; Japan Economic Newswire; The Telegraph; Harris Poll; reason.com.","Blonds \u201cStrike the Baby and Kill the Blonde: An Insider\u2019s Guide to Film Slang\u201d by Dave Knox; \u201cEncyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History\u201d by Victoria Sherrow; \u201cEncyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Vol. 1\u201d by Melissa Hope Ditmore; \u201cOn Blondes\u201d by Joanna Pitman; \u201cPeekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake\u201d by Jeff Lenburg; \u201cAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light\u201d by Patrick McGilligan; \u201cPunk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution\u201d by Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan; \u201cHeavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain\u201d by Charles R. Cross; \u201cThe Rolling Stone Film Reader\u201d article by Chris Mundy; Life magazine; Boston Herald. Height \u201cFacts about the Presidents\u201d by Joseph Kane; \u201cTallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century\u201d by Richard H. Steckel and Joseph M. Prince; \u201cGrande Expectations: A Year in the Life of Starbucks\u2019 Stock\u201d by Karen Blumenthal; \u201cThe Tall Book\u201d by Arianne Cohen; \u201cEmpire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon\u201d By Mitchell Pacelle; \u201cThe Rat Pack\u201d by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell; \u201cGreat Mythconceptions: The Science Behind the Myths\u201d by Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Yazxhi; \u201cThe \u2018Visual Cliff\u2019\u201d by Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Welk; npr.org; World Book Encyclopedia; New York Daily News; The Associated Press; San Francisco Chronicle; Orange County Register; The New Yorker; Anchorage Daily News; Vancouver Sun; The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J.; Toronto Star; Houston Chronicle; politico.com; thehill.com Skin Color \u201cSkin: The Bare Facts\u201d by Lori Bergamotto; \u201cBeautiful Skin of Color\u201d by Jeanine Downie and Fran Cook-Bolden, with Barbara Nevins Taylor; \u201cThe Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History\u201d by John Ortved; \u201cWas Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed\u201d by Brian Cronin; \u201cLeaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture\u201d by John Alberti; \u201cThe Complete Stories\u201d by Zora Neale Hurston; \u201cEncyclopedia of Family Health\u201d by David B. Jacoby and R.M. Youngson; \u201cStrapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X\u201d by Deborah Davis; \u201cDon\u2019t Mind If I Do\u201d by George Hamilton and William Stadiem; \u201cYellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White\u201d by Frank H. Wu; \u201cSavage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture\u201d by Patrick B. Sharp; \u201cThe Discourse of Race in Modern China\u201d by Frank Dikotter; Texas Monthly; New York magazine; crayola.com; artble.com; webmd.com; mayoclinic.com; encyclopedia.com. Beards \u201cOne Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair\u201d by Allan Peterkin; \u201cEncyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History\u201d by Victoria Sherrow; \u201cSir Thomas More\u201d by William Holden Hutton; \u201cHoly People of the World, Vol. 1\u201d by Phyllis G. Jestice; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cAlmost History: Close Calls, Plan B\u2019s and Twists of Fate in America\u2019s Past\u201d by Roger Bruns; \u201cLincoln President-elect\u201d by Harold Holzer; \u201cThe Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA\u201d by Evan Thomas; \u201cThe Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War\u201d by James Robertson; \u201cWho\u2019s Who in Gay and Lesbian History\u201d edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon; Lincoln Lore journal; The Advocate; byu.edu; newadvent.org; catholic.org; cnn.com; www.phrases.org.uk; Tribune news services. CHAPTER 3: Controversies & Ideas Guns \u201cHemingway\u2019s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961\u201d by Paul Hendrickson; \u201cThe Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham & the Civil War\u201d by Frank L. Klement; \u201cA Life of Clement L. Vallandigham\u201d by James Laird Vallandigham; \u201cGuns in American Society\u201d by Gregg Lee","Carter; \u201cThe Civil War\u201d by Shelby Foote; \u201cHistorical Dictionary of the U.S. Army\u201d edited by Jerold E. Brown; \u201cFrom My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics\u201d by Emilie Raymond; \u201cMr. Gatling\u2019s Terrible Marvel\u201d by Julia Keller; \u201cThe Gun That Changed the World\u201d by Mikhail Kalashnikov with Elena Joly; The Sydney Morning Herald; The New York Times; gallup.com; popularmechanics.com; espn.com; news.com.au. Immigration \u201cThe American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War\u201d by Neil Baldwin; \u201cThe American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture\u201d by Lawrence H. Fuchs; \u201cCommunion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America\u201d by James T. Fisher; \u201cBeyond Ethnicity\u201d by Werner Sollors; \u201cClosing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act\u201d by Andrew Gyory; \u201cComing to America\u201d by Roger Daniels; \u201cOn Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder\u201d by Ed Sikov; Encyclopedia of Chicago; Migration Policy Institute; Gallup; Chicago Tribune; The Wall Street Journal; slate.com; census.gov; foreignpolicy.com; time.com. Marijuana \u201cMarihuana, The First Twelve Thousand Years\u201d by Ernest L. Abel; \u201cMarijuana: Opposing Viewpoints\u201d edited by Jamuna Carroll; Encyclopedia Britannica; High Times; Tribune news services. Censorship \u201cCensoring Hollywood\u201d by Aubrey Malone; \u201cTawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered\u201d by Alex Novak; \u201cRichard Wright: The Life and Times\u201d by Hazel Rowley; \u201cBanned in Boston\u201d by Neil Miller; \u201cForbidden Animation\u201d by Karl F. Cohen; \u201cThe Yale Book of Quotations\u201d edited by Fred R. Shapiro; \u201cA Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities\u201d edited by Sir William Smith and Francis Warre Cornish; \u201cA Concise Survey of Western Civilization\u201d by Brian A. Pavlac; \u201cBanned Books: Censorship in Eighteenth-Century England\u201d by Anastasia Castillo; \u201cCuriosities of Literature\u201d by Isaac Disraeli; foreignpolicy.com; Los Angeles Times. Juries \u201cWe, the Jury\u201d by Jeffrey B. Abramson; \u201cEncyclopedia of Crime and Punishment\u201d edited by David Levinson; \u201cTerrorism on American Soil\u201d by Joseph T. McCann; \u201cClarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned\u201d by John Aloysius Farrell; \u201cThe Trial of Socrates\u201d by I.F. Stone; \u201cWrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography\u201d by Stuart Shea; \u201cThe Judge Who Hated Red Nail Polish\u201d by Ilona M. Bray, Richard Stim and the editors of Nolo; \u201cCourageous Judicial Decisions in Alabama\u201d by Dr. Jack Kushner; The Woman Citizen magazine; ABA Journal; \u201cJim Crow Laws\u201d by Leslie V. Tischauser; U.S. Supreme Court; Chicago Tribune archives; Chattanooga Times Free Press; enr.construction.com. 1968 \u201c1968: The Year That Rocked the World\u201d by Mark Kurlansky; \u201cMovies in American History: An Encyclopedia\u201d edited by Philip C. DiMare; \u201cPictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood\u201d by Mark Harris; \u201cThe Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to African American History\u201d by Melba Duncan; FBI Uniform Crime Reports; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; modernhistorian.blogspot.com; npr.org. Flags \u201cThe United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions\u201d by the Congressional Research Service; \u201cIrish Brigade in the Civil War\u201d by Joseph G. Bilby; \u201cImmortal Images: A Personal History of Two Photographers and the Flag-raising on Iwo Jima\u201d by Tedd Thomey; \u201cBurning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy\u201d by Robert Justin Goldstein; \u201cThe Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique\u201d by Juan Obarrio; The Washington Post; Tallahassee Democrat; Chicago Tribune; chicagomag.com; time.com; hoaxes.org; famouspictures.org; rmg.co.uk; govtrack.us; britannica.com. Unions \u201cThere Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America\u201d by Philip Dray; \u201cThe Imperfect Union: A History of Corruption in America\u2019s Trade Unions\u201d by John Hutchinson; \u201cA. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait\u201d by Jervis Anderson; \u201cA. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights\u201d by Cornelius L. Bynum; \u201cIt Happened in West Virginia\u201d by Rick Steelhammer; \u201cWorkers in","America: A Historical Encyclopedia\u201d by Robert E. Weir; \u201cSweat and Blood: A History of U.S. Labor Unions\u201d by Gloria Skurzynski; \u201cOn the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry\u201d by Liesl Miller Orenic; \u201cOutlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail\u201d by Marcus Rediker; \u201cHandbook to Life in Ancient Egypt\u201d by Ann Rosalie David; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Congressional Research Office; ufw.org; wvgazette.com; pawv.org; Stan Hochman in the Philadelphia Daily News; The Washington Post; Chicago Tribune. Defective Products \u201cForgotten Fads and Fabulous Flops\u201d by Paul Kirchner; \u201cModern Tort Law\u201d by V.H. Harpwood; \u201cThe Business of Civil War\u201d by Mark R. Wilson; \u201cTextiles, and the Origin of Their Names\u201d by Robert H. Megraw; \u201cWhy the Earth Quakes\u201d by Matthys Levy; \u201cDictionary of Word Origins\u201d by Jordan Almond; Scottish Council of Law Reporting; Consumer Product Safety Commission; nrc.gov; International Business Times; Chicago Tribune; msn.com; time.com. Security Measures \u201cU.S. Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook\u201d by Howard Ball; \u201cA Heart, A Cross, and a Flag: America Today\u201d by Peggy Noonan; \u201cRed Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus\u2019 Crimes, Lifestyle and Corruption\u201d by Ion Mihai Pacepa; \u201cSonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life, an Indian Destiny\u201d by Rani Singh; \u201cIn the President\u2019s Secret Service\u201d by Ronald Kessler; \u201cThe Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History\u201d by Robert C. Harvey; \u201cThe Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages\u201d by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann and Robert M. Jurga; The Globe and Mail; CBC News; The Washington Post; The Guardian; The Independent; Wired magazine; nature.com; probarrier.com; cwc.gov; dhs.gov. Prison \u201cCash: The Autobiography\u201d by Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr; \u201cGandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life\u201d by Kathryn Tidrick; \u201cHistory\u2019s Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events Our History Books Got Wrong\u201d by William Weir; The New York Times; The Washington Post; bop.gov; chicagohs.org; bbcnews.com; snopes.com; prisonstudies.org; justicepolicy.org. Fox News \u201cThe Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography\u201d by Aubrey Solomon; \u201cMy Turn at the Bully Pulpit\u201d by Greta Van Susteren and Elaine Lafferty; The New York Times; The Washington Post; CNN; The Telegraph; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily News; npr.org; nbc.com; pewresearch.org; politifact.com; observer.com. CHAPTER 4: Food & Drink Extreme Eating \u201cClipping the Clouds: How Air Travel Changed the World\u201d by Marc Dierikx; \u201cBeyond Bizarre\u201d by Varla Ventura; \u201cEating to Excess\u201d by Susan E. Hill; \u201cA Theory About Sin\u201d by Orby Shipley; \u201cThe Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink\u201d edited by Andrew F. Smith; \u201cRevolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet\u201d by Harvey Levenstein; National Geographic; Aquatic Biology; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; South Florida Sun Sentinel; Los Angeles Times; The Telegraph. Hamburgers \u201cCasell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d edited by Jonathan Green; \u201cHash House Lingo\u201d by Jack Smiley; \u201cGrinding It Out: The Making of McDonald\u2019s\u201d by Ray Kroc with Robert Anderson; \u201cThe Hamburger: A History\u201d by Josh Ozersky; \u201cEncyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food\u201d by Andrew F. Smith; \u201cHamburger America\u201d by George Motz; \u201cSelling \u2019Em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food\u201d by David Gerard Hogan; \u201cThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business","of Life\u201d by Alice Schroeder; Time; Los Angeles Times; The Washington Post; Tribune archives; Center for Investigative Reporting; snopes.com. Wine \u201cBeethoven: The Last Decade, 1817-1827\u201d by Martin Cooper; \u201cDrink This: Wine Made Simple\u201d by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl; \u201cThe Wine Lover\u2019s Guide to Auctions\u201d by Ursula Hermacinski; \u201cA Benjamin Franklin Reader\u201d by Walter Isaacson; \u201cThe Billionaire\u2019s Vinegar\u201d by Benjamin Wallace; The New York Times; People; The Independent; The Guardian; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; njmonthly.com; eatmedaily.com. Beer \u201cThe Big Book O\u2019 Beer\u201d by Duane Swierczynski; \u201cFrom Beer to Eternity\u201d by Will Anderson; \u201cBeer: A History of Brewing in Chicago\u201d by Bob Skilnik; snopes.com; samueladams.com; realbeer.com. Drunkenness \u201cAlcohol: The World\u2019s Favorite Drug\u201d by Griffith Edwards; \u201cPerfect I\u2019m Not\u201d by David Wells with Chris Kreski; \u201cWhite Man\u2019s Wicked Water\u201d by William E. Unrau; \u201cDean and Me\u201d by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan; \u201cThe Lonely Hunter\u201d by Virginia Spencer Carr; Urban Dictionary; Moderndrunkardmagazine.com; doubletongued.org; Reason magazine; Newsweek; The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa.; Tribune news services. Candy \u201cThe Emperors of Chocolate\u201d by Joel Glenn Brenner; \u201cCandy: The Sweet History\u201d by Beth Kimmerle; \u201cSweets: A History of Candy\u201d by Tim Richardson; candyusa.org; snopes.com. Ice Cream International Dairy Foods Association; Tribune reporter Hugh Dellios; \u201cThe Great Clowns of American Television\u201d by Karin Adir; \u201cSlavery in the United States\u201d by Jenny B. Wahl of Carleton College on eh.net; \u201cIce: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water\u201d by Karal Ann Marling; \u201cFamous Wisconsin Inventors & Entrepreneurs\u201d by Marv Balousek; \u201cThe Scoop\u201d by Lori Longbotham; \u201cChocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla\u201d by Anne Cooper Funderburg; \u201cThe Audacity of Hope\u201d by Barack Obama; evinrude.com; San Francisco Chronicle; Tribune news services. Salt \u201cSalt: A World History\u201d by Mark Kurlansky; \u201cSalted: A Manifesto on the World\u2019s Most Essential Mineral\u201d by Mark Bitterman; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cDictionary of Word Origins\u201d by Jordan Almond; \u201cThomas Jefferson and the New Nation\u201d by Merrill D. Peterson; \u201cThe Road to Monticello\u201d by Kevin J. Hayes; \u201cThe Story Behind Salt\u201d by Heidi Moore; International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders; mortonarb.org; mortonsalt.com; detroitsalt.com; wadeburleson.org; The Detroit News. Tomatoes \u201cIn Praise of Tomatoes\u201d by Ronni Lundy with John Stehling; \u201cPure Ketchup\u201d by Andrew F. Smith; Federal News Service; \u201cLong Walk to Freedom\u201d by Nelson Mandela; \u201cPart of My Soul Went With Him\u201d by Winnie Mandela; \u201cRed Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus\u2019 Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption\u201d by Ion Mihai Pacepa; \u201cThe Great Tomato Book\u201d by Gary Ibsen with Joan Nielsen; U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cNix v. Hedden\u201d; \u201cThe Galapagos\u201d by Robert I. Bowman; \u201cEcology and Evolution: Islands of Change\u201d by Richard Benz; \u201cGalapagos: A Natural History\u201d by John C. Kricher; \u201cEat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory From Garden to Gut\u201d by Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate; National Gardening Association; Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine; Latomatina.org; Tribune archives. Turkey \u201cHunting Tough Turkeys\u201d by Brian Lovett; \u201cHunting the First State: A Guide to Delaware Hunting\u201d by Steven Kendus; \u201cHoward Hughes: The Hidden Years\u201d by James Phelan; \u201cThe Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1\u201d; National Wildlife Turkey Federation; \u201cThe Gourmet Cookbook\u201d edited by Ruth Reichl; \u201cThe Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances\u201d by Mark","Knowles; \u201cGeneral Patton: A Soldier\u2019s Life\u201d by Stanley Hirshson; heritageturkeyfoundation.org; snopes.com; baseball-reference.com; engelfoundation.com; The New York Times; Tribune archives. CHAPTER 5: People & Places Mexican-Americans \u201cMy Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life\u201d by Ted Williams and John Underwood; \u201cLatinos in U.S. Sport\u201d by Jorge Iber, Samuel O. Regalado, Jose M. Alamillo and Arnoldo De Leon; \u201cMexico\u2019s Most Wanted\u201d by Boze Hadleigh; \u201cAmerican Ethnicity\u201d by Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick and Joseph H. Stauss; \u201cStudies in Symbolic Interaction\u201d by Norman K. Denzin; \u201cMeeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law\u201d by Natsu Taylor Saito; \u201cLatino Education in the United States\u201d by Victoria-Maria MacDonald; mexonline.com; Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine; psywarrior.com; imdb.com; The Washington Post; The Texas Tribune; U.S. Army; npr.com; Hispanically Speaking News. Cuba \u201cThe Real Fidel Castro\u201d by Leycester Coltman; \u201cWildlife of the Caribbean\u201d by Herbert A. Raffaele and James W. Wiley; \u201cWhat They Didn\u2019t Teach You in American History Class\u201d by Mike Henry; \u201cChe\u2019s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image\u201d by Michael J. Casey; \u201cCompanero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara\u201d by Jorge G. Castaneda; \u201cCuba Open from the Inside\u201d by Chris Messner; \u201cIn Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.\u201d by Wil Haygood; American Photo magazine; Evan Thomas in Washington Monthly; Brian McKenna on sabr.org; wildlifeextra.com; time.com; globalsecurity.org; slate.com; cia.gov; cnn.com; forward.com; The Daily Beast. North Korea U.S. State Department; The Wall Street Journal; Irish Daily Mirror; Esquire; The Strait Times in Singapore; news.bbc.co.uk; golf.com; washingtonpost.com; nytimes.com; time.com; Yonhap news agency; World Health Organization; Agence France-Presse; independent.co.uk. Chinese Leaders \u201cThis Is China: The First 5,000 Years\u201d by Haiwang Yuan; \u201cChina Condensed: 5000 Years of History & Culture\u201d by Siew Chey Ong; \u201cThe Analects of Confucius\u201d translated by James Legge; \u201cFrom the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider\u2019s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War\u201d by Robert M. Gates; \u201cDeath Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China\u201d by James L. Watson; \u201cHeaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao\u2019s China\u201d by James Palmer; \u201cMao Zedong\u2019s China\u201d by Kathlyn Gay; \u201cThe Early Civilization of China\u201d by Yong Yap and Arthur Cotterell; \u201cChina: The Land and the People\u201d by Keith Buchanan, Charles P. FitzGerald and Colin A. Ronan; \u201cThe Revolution in Geology From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment\u201d by Gary D. Rosenberg; The Washington Post; The Associated Press. Syria \u201cCommanding Syria: Bashar al-Asad and the First Years in Power\u201d by Eyal Zisser; \u201cA New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria\u201d by Christa Salamandra; \u201cExtreme War\u201d by Terrence Poulos; \u201cSteve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different\u201d by Karen Blumenthal; \u201cWomen in the Middle East: Past and Present\u201d by Nikki R. Keddie; \u201cJerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain\u201d by Kathleen Tracy; cia.gov; owni.eu; transparency.org; The New York Times; The Guardian; Ebony; The Hill; The Associated Press. Russia snopes.com; geology.com; CIA Factbook; \u201cEncyclopedia of World Geography\u201d edited by Peter Haggett; \u201cEncyclopedia of Ecology\u201d; \u201cWorld Book Encyclopedia\u201d; \u201cEncyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English\u201d edited by Olive Classe; \u201cA New Dictionary of Eponyms\u201d edited by Morton S. Freeman; \u201cWhat Caesar Did for My Salad\u201d by Albert Jack; \u201cRussia and the United States\u201d by Nikolai","V. Sivachev and Nikolai N. Yakovlev; \u201cRussia\u2019s Life-saver: Lend-lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II\u201d by Albert Loren Weeks; \u201cMagicians on Ice: The Story of the Single Greatest Hockey Dynasty of All Time\u201d by Timothy J. Thompson; The New York Times; Chicago Tribune; The Sunday Times. The Irish \u201cThe American Irish\u201d by William V. Shannon; \u201cSaint Patrick\u201d by David N. Dumville; \u201cA Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake\u201d by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson; \u201cBono: His Life, Music, and Passions\u201d by Laura Jackson; \u201cBono\u201d by Bono and Michka Assayas; \u201cThe Greatest Brigade\u201d by Thomas J. Craughwell; \u201cEncyclopedia of the American Civil War\u201d edited by David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler and David J. Coles; \u201cNotre Dame Fighting Irish: Colorful Tales of the Blue and Gold\u201d by Eric Hansen; \u201cShake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football\u201d by Murray Sperber; \u201cMy Father, Marconi\u201d by Degna Marconi; \u201cWherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora\u201d by Tim Pat Coogan; \u201cLola Montez: A Life\u201d by Bruce Seymour; \u201c\u2018No Irish Need Apply\u2019: A Myth of Victimization\u201d by Richard Jensen in Journal of Social History; Chicago Tribune. Ohio Tribune news services; Ohio Historical Society; The Plain Dealer; Detroit Free Press; New York magazine; snopes.com. Texas \u201cFinding Anything About Everything in Texas\u201d by Edward Walters; \u201cTexas Curiosities\u201d by John Kelso; \u201cThe Civil War\u201d by Shelby Foote; pokerpages.com; Tribune news services; \u201cTexas Death Row\u201d edited by Bill Crawford. Wisconsin National Center for Education Statistics; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cThe New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English\u201d by Eric Partridge; \u201cThe Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to Cheeses of the World\u201d by Steve Ehlers and Jeanette Hurt; \u201cFamous Wisconsin Inventors & Entrepreneurs\u201d by Marv Balousek; \u201cFirestorm at Peshtigo\u201d by Denise Gess and William Lutz; \u201cWisconsin Biographical Dictionary\u201d by Caryn Hannan; dot.wisconsin.gov; Wisconsin State Journal; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The Associated Press; wisconsinhistory.org; usgs.gov; imdb.com; snopes.com; channel3000.com; politifact.com; congress.gov. Iowa \u201cConversations with Flannery O\u2019Connor\u201d edited by Rosemary M. Magee; \u201cThe Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event\u201d by Hugh Winebrenner; \u201cAshton Kutcher\u201d by Marc Shapiro; \u201cAmazing Iowa\u201d by Janice Beck Stock; Encyclopedia Britannica; Des Moines Register; Quad-City Times; Newsweek; WDBQ-AM; Feld Entertainment; Historical Society of Pottawattamie County; iowahawkeyes.net; imdb.com; Tribune archives and news services. Small Towns \u201cPlace Names of Illinois\u201d by Edward Callary; miketheheadlesschicken.org; tvacres.com; U.S. Census Bureau; Chicago Tribune; Orlando Sentinel; The New York Times; The Washington Post; The Associated Press; phillyvoice.com. CHAPTER 6: Politics Clout \u201cSafire\u2019s Political Dictionary\u201d by William Safire; \u201cThe Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang\u201d edited by Grant Barrett; \u201cNYPD: A City and Its Police\u201d by James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto; \u201cThe Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America\u201d by Lee Bernstein; \u201cThe Master of the Senate\u201d by Robert A. Caro; \u201cThe Use and Abuse of Power: Multiple Perspectives on the Causes of Corruption\u201d edited by Annette Y. Lee-Chai and John A. Bargh; \u201cThe Kid Stays in the Picture\u201d by Robert Evans; The Telegraph; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times.","Dirty Politics \u201cHow to Get Elected\u201d by Jack Mitchell; \u201cDirty Politics\u201d by Bruce L. Felknor; \u201cAmerican Pharaoh\u201d by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor; \u201cGoing Dirty\u201d by David Mark; Newsweek; Time; doubletongued.org; Washington Monthly; Tribune news services. Campaign Slogans \u201cGaming the Vote\u201d by William Poundstone; \u201cGovernor Richard Ogilvie: In the Interest of the State\u201d by Taylor Pensoneau; \u201cPresidents\u201d by Neil A. Hamilton; \u201cElections in Dangerous Places\u201d edited by David Gillies; \u201cPosters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World\u201d by Steven A. Seidman; \u201cEncyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections\u201d by Larry J. Sabato and Howard R. Ernst; \u201cPresidential Campaigns\u201d by Paul F. Boller Jr.; \u201cPresidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms\u201d by Robert North Roberts, Scott John Hammond and Valerie A. Sulfaro. Political Ads \u201cChicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor\u201d by Paul Kleppner; \u201cTroublemaker: Let\u2019s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again\u201d by Christine O\u2019Donnell; \u201cMudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time\u201d by Kerwin Swint; \u201cPresidential Campaigns\u201d by Paul Boller Jr.; \u201cSelling the President, 1920\u201d by John A. Morello; conelrad.blogspot.com; Los Angeles Times; Newsweek; youtube.com; livingroomcandidate.org. Presidential Also-rans \u201cAlmost President: The Men Who Lost the Race But Changed the Nation\u201d by Scott Farris; \u201cLegendary Locals of Louisville\u201d by Kris Applegate; \u201cBen Hardin: His Times and Contemporaries, with Selections from His Speeches\u201d by Lucius P. Little; \u201cNotorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored\u201d by Mary Gabriel; \u201cThere\u2019s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of \u201960s Counterculture\u201d by Peter Dogget; \u201cChicago \u201968\u201d by David Farber; \u201cAmerican Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace\u201d by John C. Culver and John Hyde; \u201cMartin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841\u201d by Edward L. Widme; The New York Times; mentalfloss.com; Heritage Auctions; npr.org; biography.com. House Speakers \u201cSpeaker: Lessons From Forty Years in Coaching and Politics\u201d by Dennis Hastert; \u201cKnow Your Power: A Message to America\u2019s Daughters\u201d by Nancy Pelosi; \u201cGalusha A. Grow: The People\u2019s Candidate\u201d by Robert D. Ilisevich; \u201cGalusha A. Grow: Father of the Homestead Law\u201d by James T. DuBois, Gertrude S. Mathews; \u201cPolk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America\u201d by Walter R. Borneman; \u201cMaster of the Senate\u201d by Robert A. Caro; \u201cThe Heroic and the Notorious: U.S. Senators From Illinois\u201d by David Kenney and Robert E. Hartley; history.house.gov; history.com; opensecrets.org; chsmedia.org; Chicago Tribune. Patriots \u201cHerstory: A Woman\u2019s View of American History\u201d by June Sochen; \u201cAmerican Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military From the Revolution to Desert Storm\u201d by Gail Buckley; \u201cPeekskill\u2019s African American History\u201d by John J. Curran; \u201cThe Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty\u201d by Louis F. Post; \u201cThurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary\u201d by Juan Williams; \u201cThe My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory\u201d by Kendrick Oliver; \u201cMy Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War\u201d by William Thomas Allison; Southern Poverty Law Center; The New York Times; euromaidanpress.com; theguardian.com; masshist.org. Third Parties Presidency Project at University of California-Santa Barbara; National Heritage Museum; \u201cCitizen Perot\u201d by Gerald Posner; \u201cThe Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party\u201d by John Allen Gable; \u201cEncyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior, Vol. 1\u201d by Kenneth F. Warren; \u201cDemocracy\u2019s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent\u201d by Ernest Freeberg; \u201cRun the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time\u201d by Bill Hillsman; \u201cVictoria Woodhull\u2019s Sexual Revolution\u201d by Amanda Frisken;","Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Los Angeles Times; Reuters; Rockford Register Star; The Washington Post; snopes.com; u-s-history.com; uselectionatlas.org; akip.org. The U.S. Supreme Court \u201cAmerican Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia\u201d by Joan Biskupic; \u201cThe Supreme Court: the Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America\u201d by Jeffrey Rosen; \u201cHugo Black and the Judicial Revolution\u201d by Gerald T. Dunne; \u201cSupreme Court for Dummies\u201d by Lisa Paddock; \u201cMore Than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women\u201d by Lyndee Jobe Henderson; The New York Times; The Christian Science Monitor; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Washington City Paper; supremecourt.gov; slate.com; cnn.com. CHAPTER 7: Language & Letters Insults \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cThe Dozens: A History of Rap\u2019s Mama\u201d by Elijah Wald; \u201cEncyclopedia of African-American Popular Culture\u201d by Jessie Carney Smith; \u201cGentlemen\u2019s Blood\u201d by Barbara Holland; \u201cIt Happened in New Orleans\u201d by Bonnye E. Stuart; \u201cDueling in the Old South\u201d by Jack K. Williams; \u201cSome Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder\u201d by Gene Phillips; \u201cContemporary Portraits\u201d by Frank Harris; rogerebert.com; politicsdaily.com; cnn.com; palmbeachpost.com; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; The Washington Post. Profanities \u201cAn Encyclopedia of Swearing\u201d by Geoffrey Hughes; \u201cA Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome\u201d by Howard I. Kushner; \u201cAlphabet Kids from ADD to Zellweger Syndrome\u201d by Robbie Woliver; \u201cThingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things\u201d by Rod L. Evans; \u201cKenneth Tynan: A Life\u201d by Dr. Dominic Shellard; \u201cHow to Swear Around the World\u201d by Jason Sacher; \u201cHunters, Herders, and Hamburgers\u201d by Richard W. Bulliet; \u201cSaturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live\u201d by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad; \u201cWho\u2019s Swearing Now?\u201d by Kristy Beers Fagersten; dictionary.com; politico.com; gwpapers.virginia.edu; 10news.com. Misspellings \u201cSergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Google\u201d by Corona Brezina; \u201cLaw of the Internet\u201d by George B. Delta and Jeffrey H. Matsuura; \u201cIcons of Rock\u201d by Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz; \u201cMonopoly: The World\u2019s Most Famous Game\u2014and How It Got That Way\u201d by Philip E. Orbanes; \u201cCrimes of the Century\u201d by Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen; \u201cU Cn Spl Btr\u201d by Laurie E. Rozakis; \u201cA Life in Letters\u201d by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; \u201cErnest Hemingway, Selected Letters, 1917-1961\u201d by Ernest Hemingway, edited by Carlos Baker; \u201cDear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner\u201d by Ernest Hemingway, edited by Albert J. DeFazio III; slate.com; cnn.com; The New York Times; Chicago Tribune archives; miaminewtimes.com; ksl.com; wistv.com. Obscure Words \u201cPredicting New Words\u201d by Allan Metcalf; The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories; waywordradio.org; wordspy.com; new-statesman.com; theguardian.com; merriam- webster.com; kokogiak.com\/logolepsy; wordsmith.org; science-mag.org; dictionary.reference.com; nationalgeographic.com; phrontistery.info. Signatures \u201cShakespeare: A Life\u201d by Park Honan; \u201cHitler\u201d by John Toland; \u201cThe Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama\u201d by David Remnick; \u201cThe Last Days of Hitler\u201d by Hugh Trevor-Roper; \u201cCasell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cLegends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History\u201d by Richard Shenkman; \u201cThe Quote Verifier\u201d by Ralph Keyes; \u201cChicago\u2019s Nelson Algren\u201d by","Art Shay; \u201cGreat Forgers and Famous Fakes\u201d by Charles Hamilton; \u201cHistory in Your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society\u201d by John M. Taylor; manuscript.org; Heritage Historical Manuscripts Auction #6019; Journal of Accountancy; Internal Revenue Service; The Guardian; The Associated Press; snopes.com. Lists \u201cOf Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss\u201d by Thomas Fensch; Edmund Morris essay in \u201cPeople of the Century\u201d by CBS News; \u201cFrom Rags to Bitches\u201d by Richard Blackwell; \u201cSeven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin\u201d by James Sullivan; \u201cWriting Systems: A Linguistic Introduction\u201d by Geoffrey Sampson; vvmf.org; pbs.org\/newshour; Bar Ilan University (biu.ac.il); Exodus 32 (New International Version of the Bible); Los Angeles Times; Tribune archives. Victory Speeches \u201cBrinkley\u2019s Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time\u201d by David Brinkley; Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News; The Dallas Morning News; The New York Times; San Francisco Chronicle; The Washington Post; The East Hampton Star in East Hampton, N.Y.; Sports Illustrated; Australian Open TV; cbsnews.com; washington.cbslocal.com; nixonlibrary.gov; history.com; mentalfloss.com; cnn.com. Literary Enigmas \u201cSafire\u2019s Political Dictionary\u201d by William Safire; \u201cAuthor Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous\u201d by Don Foster; \u201cDr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography\u201d by Judith Morgan and Neil Morgan; \u201cJames Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon\u201d by Julie Phillips; \u201cWilliam Faulkner: His Life and Work\u201d edited by David Minter; \u201cFaulkner: A Biography\u201d by Joseph Blotner; \u201cThe Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\u201d; \u201cVirtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere\u201d by Eric O. Clarke; \u201cThe Encyclopedia of Cremation\u201d edited by Douglas J. Davies and Lewis H. Mates; Frank Rich in the New York Times; Daniel Schorr on National Public Radio; New York magazine; The New York Times; poemuseum.org; quoteinvestigator.com; snopes.com; crimelibrary.com; cbsnews.com; agathachristie.com; sethkaller.com; Newsweek. Fictional Mothers \u201cMarmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother\u201d by Eve LaPlante; \u201cHow to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life\u201d by Pat Williams with James Denney; \u201cWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination\u201d by Neal Gabler; \u201cA Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson\u201d by Michael Troyan; \u201cLife Is Not a Stage\u201d by Florence Henderson; \u201cHarriet Beecher Stowe: A Life\u201d by Joan D. Hedrick; \u201cStepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do\u201d by Wednesday Martin; \u201cAncient Stepmothers: Myth, Misogyny and Reality\u201d by Patricia A. Watson; Rick Manzella, One Stop Comics; The New York Times; Houston Chronicle; E! News transcripts; marvel.com; imdb.com; dinnerpartydownload.org; spinof.comicbookresources.com. Fictional Fathers \u201cMy Losing Season: A Memoir\u201d by Pat Conroy; \u201cGlued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events that Made Us Who We are Today\u201d by Steven D. Stark; \u201cGregory Peck: A Biography\u201d by Gary Fishgall; \u201cTelevision Characters\u201d by Vincent Terrace; \u201cEncyclopedia of Television\u201d by Horace Newcomb; Paley Center for Media; \u201cOut in All Directions: A Treasury of Gay and Lesbian America\u201d by Eric Marcus; out.com; timesonline.co.uk; imdb.com; Tribune archives. Acronyms wordspy.com; doubletongued.org; langmaker.com; reference.com; globalsecurity.org; Computer Weekly; The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Double Talk \u201cA Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk\u201d by Hugh Rawson; \u201cHow Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms\u201d by R.W. Holder; \u201cPropaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion\u201d by Randal Marlin; wordspy.com, buzzwhack.com; globalsecurity.org; euphemismlist.com; networkworld.com; pbs.com; bnet.com; businessweek.com; bobsutton.typepad.com; The Guardian; Imperial War Museum; Universal Press Syndicate; Tribune news services.","Punctuation \u201cThe Civil War: A Narrative\u201d by Shelby Foote; \u201cMemoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Statesman, 1953-64\u201d by Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev, George Shriver and Stephen Shenfield; \u201cEncyclopedia of Emotion\u201d by Gretchen Reevy, Yvette Malamud Ozer and Yuri Ito; \u201cA Rhetoric of Irony\u201d by Wayne C. Booth; \u201cEats, Shoots & Leaves\u201d by Lynne Truss; \u201cHas modern life killed the semicolon?\u201d by Paul Collins in slate.com; editorandpublisher.com; The Author; Tribune news services. Made-Up Words wharton.universia.net; urbandictionary.com; dictionary.reference.com; doubletongued.org; wordspy.com; \u201cAmerican Government and Politics Today: The Essentials\u201d by Barbara A. Bardes, Mack C. Shelley and Steffen W. Schmidt. CHAPTER 8: Rich & Famous Donald Trump \u201cNo Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump\u201d by Robert Slater; \u201cTrump: The Art of the Deal\u201d by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz; \u201cThe Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire\u201d by Gwenda Blair; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; People magazine; Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News; trump.com; nytimes.com; npr.com; chicagomag.com; leagle.com; usmagazine.com; time.com. Elvis Presley \u201cAll Shook Up: Elvis Day by Day, 1954-1977\u201d by Lee Cotton; \u201cThe Inner Elvis\u201d by Peter Whitmer; \u201cThe Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley\u201d by David Adler; \u201cThe Death of Elvis: What Really Happened\u201d by Charles C. Thompson II and James P. Cole; \u201cBaby Names Now\u201d by Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran; The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn.; Tribune news services. Oprah Winfrey oprah.com; Chicago magazine; Tribune news services; International Directory of Business Biographies; \u201cOprah: The Real Story\u201d by George Mair; \u201cRoger Ebert\u2019s Movie Yearbook\u201d by Roger Ebert. Abraham Lincoln \u201cLincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President\u201d by Edward Steers Jr.; \u201cThe Civil War Day by Day\u201d by E.B. Long with Barbara Long; \u201cThe Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States\u201d by Henry Gannett; \u201cBirds of the Great Basin: A Natural History\u201d by Fred A. Ryser; \u201cAbraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years\u201d by Carl Sandburg; \u201cAbraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory\u201d by Barry Schwartz; \u201cAbraham Lincoln & the Colony on Ile-a-Vache\u201d by Robert Bray of Illinois Wesleyan University; Chicago Tribune archives; American Heritage magazine; legendsrevealed.com; thebirdist.com; civilwar.org; museumofhoaxes.com; presidency.ucsb.edu. Royal Mothers \u201cThe Emperors of Modern Japan\u201d edited by Ben-Ami Shillony; \u201cCuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People\u201d by Linda Civitello; \u201cNero Caesar Augustus: Emperor of Rome\u201d by David Shotter; \u201cWalt\u2019s People: Talking Disney With the Artists Who Knew Him\u201d by Didier Ghez; \u201cHistorical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa\u201d by Kathleen Sheldon; \u201cWomen Rulers Throughout the Ages\u201d by Guida Myrl Jackson-Laufer; \u201cVictoria\u2019s Daughters\u201d by Jerrold M. Packard; \u201cQueen Victoria\u201d by Elizabeth Longford; \u201cRose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch\u201d by Barbara A. Perry; \u201cMemoirs of Her Late Majesty Caroline, Queen of Great Britain\u201d by Robert Huish; disney.com; britannica.com; smithsonianmag.com. Founding Fathers (And Mothers) \u201cPolitics: Observations & Arguments; 1966-2004\u201d by Hendrik Hertzberg; \u201cFor You They Signed\u201d by Marilyn Boyer; \u201cFlag: An American Biography\u201d by Marc","Leepson; \u201cSigning Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence\u201d by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D\u2019Agnese; \u201cStupid History\u201d by Leland Gregory; \u201cWashington: A Life\u201d by Ron Chernow; \u201cMolly Pitcher: Heroine of the War for Independence\u201d by Rachel A. Koestler-Grack; Gleaves Whitney of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at gvsu.edu; poetryfoundation.org; betsyrosshouse.org; snopes.com; britannica.com; The San Diego Union-Tribune. Dick Cheney \u201cNow It\u2019s My Turn\u201d by Mary Cheney; Tribune archives and news services. The Dalai Lama \u201cKundun\u201d by Mary Craig; Shambhala Sun; Tribune archives and news services. The Kennedys \u201cThe Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963\u201d by Carl Sferrazza Anthony; \u201cJohn F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a President\u201d by John A. Barnes; \u201cGrace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House\u201d by Sally Bedell Smith; \u201cJoseph McCarthy: Re-examining the Life and Legacy of America\u2019s Most Hated Senator\u201d by Arthur Herman; \u201cJohn F. Kennedy: A biography\u201d by Michael O\u2019Brien; \u201cFootball: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession\u201d by Mark F. Bernstein; jfklibrary.org; The New York Times; Tribune archives. Michael Moore Tribune news services; \u201cMichael Moore\u201d by Emily Schultz; The New Yorker; Rolling Stone. Sarah Palin \u201cTrailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin\u201d by Lorenzo Benet; \u201cSarah\u201d by Kaylene Johnson; \u201cGoing Rogue\u201d by Sarah Palin; wickedlocal.com; Tribune news services. CHAPTER 9: Military & War Terrorism \u201cTerrorism As Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond\u201d by Mark S. Hamm; \u201cThe Ku Klux Klan: A Guide to an American Subculture\u201d by Marty Gitlin; \u201cDefence Against Terrorism\u201d by Adil Duyan and Mustafa Kibaroglu; \u201cRemember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes\u201d by J.A. Sharpe; \u201cTerrorism on American Soil\u201d by Joseph T. McCann; \u201cLucy Parsons: American Revolutionary\u201d by Carolyn Ashbaugh; \u201cAnthrax Attacks Around the World\u201d by Tahara Hasan; historytoday.com; slate.com; ktvu.com; telegraph.co.uk; The Associated Press; Chicago Sun- Times; The New York Sun; New York Daily News; Time; The Wrap; Tribune archives. War Heroes \u201cSoldier Stories: True Tales of Courage, Honor, and Sacrifice from the Frontlines\u201d by Joe Wheeler; \u201c500 Little-Known Facts in U.S. History\u201d by George W. Givens; \u201cA Shower of Stars: The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine\u201d by John J. Pullen; \u201cMedal of Honor: Historical Facts & Figures\u201d by Ronald J. Owens; Los Angeles Times; Tampa Bay Times; Richmond Times-Dispatch; nmajmh.org; army.mil; robertsmalls.com; commondreams.org; si.edu; guardianofvalor.com. The Afghan War \u201cMy Life With the Taliban\u201d by Abdul Salam Zaeef, Alex Strick Van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn; \u201cBrookings Afghanistan Index\u201d by Ian S. Livingston and Michael O\u2019Hanlon; \u201cIn Afghanistan\u201d by David Loyn; \u201cWhere Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman\u201d by Jon Krakauer; \u201cThe Wars of Afghanistan\u201d by Peter Tomsen; The Washington Post; The Telegraph; urbandictionary.com; defense-update.com; U.S. Bureau of Prisons; The New York Times; The Herald; BBC News. Obscure Wars \u201cDictionary of Wars\u201d by George Childs Kohn; \u201cBritannia\u2019s Glories: The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War With Spain\u201d by Philip Woodfine; \u201cMichigan\u2019s Early Military Forces\u201d by Le","Roy Barnett and Roger Rosentreter; \u201cStupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages\u201d by Leland Gregory; \u201cMilitary Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq\u201d by Paul Robinson; \u201cThe New Concise History of the Crusades\u201d by Thomas F. Madden; \u201cEncyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: A to F\u201d by Edmund Jan Osmanczyk and Anthony Mango; \u201cNavy: An Illustrated History\u201d by Chester G. Hearn; Chicago Tribune; daviesscountyhistoricalsociety.com; texasescapes.com; lib.unc.edu; tshaonline.org; warmuseum.ca; history.state.gov. Military Speak \u201cThe Second World War: A Military History\u201d by Gordon Corrigan; \u201cFUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II\u201d by Gordon L. Rottman; \u201cWar Slang\u201d by Paul Dickson; \u201cChurchill by Himself\u201d by Winston Churchill; \u201cMilitary Comedy Films\u201d by Hal Erickson; Ben Brody on npr.com; military.com; worldwidewords.org; The Wall Street Journal; Smithsonian magazine; Los Angeles Times; The Philadelphia Inquirer. Women at War Ibis Reproductive Health; pewsocialtrends.org; Tribune archives and news services. World War II \u201cChanel: A Woman of Her Own\u201d by Axel Madsen; \u201cThe Greatest War Stories Never Told\u201d by Rick Beyer; \u201cGod\u2019s Samurai\u201d by Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon; \u201cWarlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945\u201d by Carlo D\u2019Este; \u201cGeneral Patton: A Soldier\u2019s Life\u201d by Stanley P. Hirshson; \u201c199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad\u201d by Edwin P. Hoyt; \u201cWhistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London\u201d by Jean R. Freedman; \u201c1942\u201d by Winston Groom; \u201cThe U.S. Home Front, 1941-45\u201d by Alejandro de Quesada; \u201cWhat Every Person Should Know About War\u201d by Chris Hedges; \u201cEurekas and Euphorias\u201d by Walter Gratzer; Albuquerque Journal; Smithsonian magazine. D-Day \u201cD-Day: Operation Overlord Day by Day\u201d by Anthony Hall; \u201cBodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day\u201d by Anthony Cave Brown; \u201cSoldiers Lost at Sea\u201d by James E. Wise and Scott Baron; \u201cSlightly Out of Focus\u201d by Robert Capa; \u201cVoices from D-Day\u201d by Jonathan Bastable; \u201cFortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign\u201d by Roger Hesketh; \u201cAndrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II\u201d by Jerry E. Strahan; skylighters.org; U.S. Navy; Museum of Science and Industry. CHAPTER 10: Science & Technology Drones \u201cTesla: A Man Out of Time\u201d by Margaret Cheney; \u201cReconnaissance Is Black\u201d by David Irvin; \u201cUnmanned Aerial Vehicles: Robotic Air Warfare 1917-2007\u201d by Steven J. Zaloga; \u201cDrone Wars\u201d edited by Peter Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg; \u201cThe Thistle and the Drone: How America\u2019s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam\u201d by Akbar Ahmed; \u201cMarilyn Monroe: The Biography\u201d by Donald Spoto; \u201cThe Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe\u201d by J. Randy Taraborrelli; \u201cDrone\u201d by Adam Rothstein; Ben Zimmer at wsj.com; The Washington Post; intercepts.defensenews.com; theguardian.com; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; Chicago Tribune; The Associated Press, time.com; engadget.com; assemblymag.com. Geniuses Katie McCabe in The Washingtonian; \u201cA Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World\u201d by Stephen R. Bown; \u201cThe Genius Factory\u201d by David Plotz; \u201cIQ and Human Intelligence\u201d by Nicholas Mackintosh; \u201cInventors and Inventions, Vol. 2\u201d; \u201cFrom Thistle Burrs to . . . Velcro\u201d by Josh Gregory; \u201cThe Discovery of Penicillin\u201d by Guy de la Bedoyere; \u201cFlanagan\u2019s","Version: A Spectator\u2019s Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century\u201d by Dennis Flanagan; \u201cObsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie\u201d by Barbara Goldsmith; The Denver Post; The Globe and Mail; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; the journal Brain; npr.org; invent.org; semmelweis.org; alumni.stanford.edu. Poison \u201cVietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925\u201d by David G. Marr; \u201cThe Arsenic Century\u201d by James C. Whorton; \u201cIsak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller\u201d by Judith Thurman; \u201cPrinciples of Clinical Toxicology\u201d edited by J. Douglas Bricker; \u201cIs Arsenic an Aphrodisiac?\u201d edited by William R. Cullen; \u201cGreek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs\u201d by Adrienne Mayor; New Scientist; Chicago Tribune archives; St. Paul Pioneer Press; huffingtonpost.com; snopes.com; petmd.com; aspca.org. Extreme Weather \u201cThe Quote Verifier\u201d by Ralph Keyes; Illinois\u2019 State Climatologist Office; \u201cTornado Alley\u201d by Howard B. Bluestein; \u201cScanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting\u201d by Marlene Bradford; \u201cFrogs: A Chorus of Colors\u201d by John L. Behler and Deborah A. Behler; \u201cStorm Watchers\u201d by John D. Cox; NASA; Accuweather; Palm Beach Post; National Geographic; weather.com. Ice \u201cEncyclopedia of World Geography\u201d edited by Peter Haggett; \u201cGlossary of Marine Navigation\u201d by Nathaniel Bowditch; \u201cWater Science: Active Science with Water\u201d by Edward Shevick; \u201cChicago\u2019s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century\u201d by Louise Carroll Wade; \u201cThe Galloping Ghost: Red Grange, An American Football Legend\u201d by Gary Andrew Poole; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; thesmokinggun.com; zamboni.com; news.discovery.com; The Wall Street Journal; ESPN; Chicago Tribune. Zoos \u201cBig Town, Big Time: A New York Epic: 1898-1998\u201d by Jay Maeder; \u201cSideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination\u201d by Rachel Adams; \u201cThe Book of Animal Ignorance\u201d by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson; \u201cThe Ark in the Park\u201d by Wilfrid Blunt; \u201cZoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens\u201d edited by Vernon N. Kisling; Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden; Buffalo Zoo; Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; The San Diego Union-Tribune; The Washington Post; The New York Times; sfgate.com; people.com; boston.com; abcnews.go.com; KARE-TV. Elephants \u201cElephants\u201d by Joyce Poole; \u201cAsian Elephant\u201d by Matt Turner; \u201cOur Movie Houses\u201d by Norman O. Keim and David Marc; \u201cWalt\u2019s People\u201d by Didier Ghez; \u201cMaria Callas: An Intimate Biography\u201d by Anne Edwards; \u201cStrong on Music: Reverberations, 1850-1856\u201d by Vera Brodsky Lawrence; \u201cThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Elephants\u201d by S.K. Eltringham and Jeheskel Shoshani; \u201cThe Moral Lives of Animals\u201d by Dale Peterson; \u201cCritical Regionalism\u201d by Douglas Reichert Powell; \u201cLords of the Levee\u201d by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan; \u201cThe Ark in the Park\u201d by Mark Rosenthal, Carol Tauber and Edward Uhlir; \u201cElephants: A Cultural and Natural History\u201d by Karl Groning and Martin Saller; \u201cIn the Beat of a Heart\u201d by John Whitfield; Tufts University; Tribune archives; blueridgecountry.com. Epidemics \u201cA Distant Mirror\u201d by Barbara W. Tuchman; \u201cDaily Life During the Black Death\u201d by Joseph Patrick Byrne; \u201cThe Great Influenza\u201d by John M. Barry; \u201cThe Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History\u201d by Donald R. Hopkins; \u201cEncyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence\u201d edited by George Childs Kohn; \u201cAnd the Band Played On\u201d by Randy Shilts; \u201cLove for Sale\u201d by Elizabeth Alice Clement; \u201cCreating the Big Easy\u201d by Anthony J. Stanonis; \u201cNo Magic Bullet\u201d by Allan M. Brandt; \u201cTyphoid Mary: Captive to the Public\u2019s Health\u201d by Judith Walzer Leavitt; Collins English Dictionary; The New York Times; pbs.org; npr.org; snopes.com. Hurricanes \u201cFlorida\u2019s Hurricane History\u201d by Jay Barnes; \u201cEncyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones\u201d by David Longshore; \u201cGerald R. Ford\u201d by Douglas Brinkley; Congressional Record;","\u201cHurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast\u201d by Philip D. Hearn; \u201cCategory 5: The Story of Camille\u201d by Ernest Zebrowski and Judith A. Howard; \u201cRoar of the Heavens\u201d by Stefan Bechtel; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss.; snopes.com; camille.passchristian.net. Space \u201cHandbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage\u201d by Beth Laura O\u2019Leary; \u201cThe Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to Weird Word Origins\u201d by Paul McFedries; \u201cMeteors in the Earth\u2019s Atmosphere\u201d by Edmond Murad and Iwan Prys Williams; \u201cThe Nobel Prize\u201d by Burton Feldman; \u201cDon\u2019t Know Much About the Universe\u201d by Kenneth C. Davis; \u201cStar Clusters and How to Observe Them\u201d by Mark Allison; \u201cThe Handy Astronomy Answer Book\u201d by Charles Liu; spaceflight now.com; The New York Times; snopes.com; chicagomaroon.com; \u201cPeople of the Century\u201d by CBS News; BBC News; The Globe and Mail; planetfacts.org; science.nasa.gov; dictionary.reference.com; universetoday.com. Air Travel \u201cTravia: The Ultimate Book of Travel Trivia\u201d by Nadine Godwin; \u201cAmelia: A Life of the Aviation Legend\u201d by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon; \u201cHow to Make a Tornado,\u201d a New Scientist book edited by Mick O\u2019Hare; \u201cWorking the Skies\u201d by Drew Whitelegg; The Telegraph; The Sacramento Bee; The Denver Post; \u201cAsk the Pilot\u201d by Patrick Smith on salon.com; imdb.com; straightdope.com; newadvent.org; snopes.com; consumerist.com. CHAPTER 11: Kids & Education College \u201cThe Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago\u2019s Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician\u201d by Roger A. Bruns; \u201cThe Reckoning\u201d by David Halberstam; \u201cThe Black Revolution on Campus\u201d by Martha Biondi; \u201cIndian Civilization and Culture\u201d by Suhas Chatterje; \u201cLibraries in the Early 21st Century, Vol. 2\u201d edited by Ravindra N. Sharma; The Alcalde; UNESCO; Guinness World Records; National Center for Education Statistics; The New York Times; hardballtimes.com; collegeofcomplexes.org; pcmag.com; wsj.com; thedailybeast.com; trends.collegeboard.org; theweek.com; huffingtonpost.com. Tests \u201cFade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries\u201d by Paul Donnelley; \u201cJean Harlow: Tarnished Angel\u201d by David Bret; \u201cCity of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s\u201d by Otto Friedrich; \u201cA Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution\u201d by Dennis Baron; \u201cThe Perfection of the Paper Clip\u201d by James Ward; \u201cA Woman in Charge\u201d by Carl Bernstein; \u201cIke\u2019s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality\u201d by Kasey S. Pipes; \u201cLaw School 101\u201d by R. Stephanie Good; \u201cA Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China\u201d by Benjamin A. Elman; \u201cChina\u2019s Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China\u201d by Ichisada Miyazaki; \u201cNow You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn\u201d by Cathy N. Davidson; National Institutes of Health; The Telegraph; mentalfloss.com; lfanet.org; snopes.com; adage.com; ideas.time.com; nydailynews.com. Toys \u201cWarman\u2019s 101 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys\u201d by Mark Rich; Fortune magazine; Tribune archives and news services. Teachers \u201cThe Ultimate Teachers\u2019 Handbook\u201d by Hazel Bennett; \u201cJohn Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas\u201d by Leon Claire Metz; \u201cLone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1908-1960\u201d by Robert Dallek; \u201c\u2018Everybody\u2019s Paid but the Teacher\u2019: The Teaching Profession and the Women\u2019s","Movement\u201d by Patricia Anne Carter; \u201cThe Montessori Method\u201d by Maria Montessori, edited by Gerald Lee Gutek; \u201cMussolini\u201d by Peter Neville; \u201cUnusually Stupid Americans\u201d by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras; govtrack.us; U.S. Department of Education; Pew Research Center; The New York Times; Newsday; spinner.com; cbs.com; cnn.com; news.bbc.co.uk. Twins \u201cEntwined Lives\u201d by Nancy L. Segal; \u201cThe Inner Elvis\u201d by Peter O. Whitmer; \u201cYoruba Customs and Beliefs Pertaining to Twins\u201d in Twin Research (April 2002); salon.com; baseball-reference.com; Tribune archives and news services. CHAPTER 12: Money & Finance Money \u201cWhere the Money Was\u201d by Willie Sutton with Edward Linn; \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cComplete Book of Presidential Trivia, #2\u201d by J. Stephen Lang; \u201cAztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory\u201d by Frances F. Berdan; \u201cThe History of Money\u201d by Jack Weatherford; \u201cMoney, Banking and Monetary Policy\u201d by Thomas Bishop; \u201cThe Secret Life of Money: How Money Can Be Food for the Soul\u201d by Tad Crawford; \u201cThe Shell Money of the Slave Trade\u201d by Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson; Bureau of Engraving and Printing; National Bank of Belgium; history.com; oxforddictionaries.com; worldwidewords.org; usmint.gov; snopes.com; ctvnews.ca; telegraph.co.uk; nutmegcollector.blogspot.com; wsj.com; Ottawa Citizen. The Lottery \u201cCome Along With Me\u201d by Shirley Jackson; \u201cAn Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America\u201d by Henry Wiencek; \u201cThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food\u201d by Jennifer 8. Lee; \u201cElla Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz\u201d by Stuart Nicholson; \u201cGovernment and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry\u201d by Richard McGowan; \u201cLottery Wars: Case Studies in Bible Belt Politics, 1986-2005\u201d by William Randy Bobbitt; \u201cLotteries in Colonial America\u201d by Neal Millikan; \u201cThe Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution\u201d by Matthew Sweeney; \u201cHistory of Education in New Jersey, Issues 1-3\u201d by David Murray; snopes.com; abc7chicago.com; The Associated Press; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; The Miami Herald; St. Petersburg Times. Debt \u201cDebt: The First 5,000 Years\u201d by David Graeber; \u201cDebtors and Creditors in America\u201d by Peter J. Coleman; \u201cThe Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence\u201d by Dennis Brindell Fradin; \u201cPayback\u201d by Margaret Atwood; \u201cAmerica: The Last Best Hope\u201d by William J. Bennett; \u201cBecoming the Second City\u201d by Richard Junger; \u201cCasell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cRepublic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence\u201d by Bruce H. Mann; \u201cA History of the English Language\u201d by Elly Van Gelderen; \u201cThe Origins and Development of the English Language\u201d by John Algeo and Thomas Pyles; Bureau of the Public Debt; Congressional Budget Office; The New York Times; Scouting magazine; constitutionfacts.com; CIA Factbook; wordspy.com. Traffic Tickets \u201cThe Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America\u201d by Thurston Clarke; \u201cMaster of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson\u201d by Robert A. Caro; \u201cThe Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It\u201d by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson; \u201cTed Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died\u201d by Edward Klein; \u201cCigars, Whiskey and Winning: Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant\u201d by Al Kaltman; \u201cThe Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth\u201d by Leigh Montville; \u201cTerrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Initiative\u201d Mark A. Randol of the Congressional Research Service; \u201cThe Stranger Beside Me\u201d by Ann Rule;","\u201cCriminal Interdiction\u201d by Steven Varnell; deseretnews.com; cnn.com; sfgate.com; snopes.com; Chicago Tribune; The New York Times; ford.com. Tipping \u201cTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller\u201d by Ron Chernow; \u201cTipping: An American Social History of Gratuities\u201d by Kerry Segrave; \u201cTurning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920\u201d by Andrew P. Haley; \u201cGratuity: A Contextual Understanding of Tipping Norms from the Perspective of Tipped Employees\u201d by Richard Seltzer and Holona LeAnne Ochs; Bureau of Labor Statistics; drunkard.com; hospitality-industry.com; msnbc.msn.com; zagat.com; San Francisco Chronicle; Tribune archives. Taxes \u201c1927: High Tide of the Twenties\u201d by Gerald Leinwand; CIA Factbook; U.S. Supreme Court; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Encyclopedia Britannica; ushistory.org; irs.gov; snopes.com; The Washington Post; Tribune news services. CHAPTER 13: Arts & Culture Social Media \u201cThe Social Media Bible\u201d by Lon Safko; The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Spiegel Online International; healthland.time.com; mashable.com; ijreview.com; techcrunch.com; slate.com; socialmediatoday.com. Racy Movies \u201cBombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow\u201d by David Stenn; \u201cThe Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985\u201d by James Baldwin; \u201cThe World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger\u201d by Chris Fujiwara; \u201cCensoring Hollywood\u201d by Aubrey Malone; \u201cSome Like It Wilder\u201d by Gene Phillips; \u201cThe Continental Actress,\u201d by Kerry Segrave and Linda Martin; robertloerzel.com; Chicago Motion Picture Commission report, 1920; Motion Picture Association of America, Swedish Media Council (statensmedierad.se); South Florida Sun Sentinel; The New York Times; The Washington Post; Tribune archives. TV Ads \u201cEncyclopedia of Television\u201d by Horace Newcomb; \u201cConnecting with Consumers: Marketing for New Marketplace Realities\u201d by Allan J. Kimmel; \u201cTelevision\u2019s Strangest Moments\u201d by Quentin Falk and Ben Falk; \u201cTruth and Rumors: The Reality Behind TV\u2019s Most Famous Myths\u201d by Bill Brioux; \u201cWhat Were They Thinking: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History\u201d by David Hofstede; \u201cMadonna: An Intimate Biography\u201d by J. Randy Taraborrelli; \u201cFifties Television\u201d by William Boddy; \u201cInvasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television\u2019s Conquest of America in the Fifties\u201d by Eric Burns; \u201cThe New Icons?: The Art of Television Advertising\u201d by Paul Rutherford; U.S. House; White House; The Arizona Republic; vintageTVcommercials.com; bulova.com; snopes.com; adcouncil.org; tvacres.com; Nielsen Media Research; ORC International. TV Technology \u201cThe Quotable Tycoon\u201d by David Olive; \u201cEureka! Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World\u201d by Leslie Alan Horvitz; \u201cThe Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961\u201d by Jeff Kisseloff; \u201cTelevision Innovations\u201d by Dicky Howett; \u201cPlease Stand By: A Prehistory of Television\u201d by Michael Ritchie; \u201cCanned Laughter\u201d by Peter Hay, National Cable & Telecommunications Association; cbsnews.com; The Observer; ikegami.com; Penton Insight; TVNewser; snopes.com; variety.com. Film Critics \u201cAmerican Movie Critics\u201d edited by Phillip Lopate; \u201cYour Movie Sucks\u201d by Roger Ebert; \u201cLife Itself: A Memoir\u201d by Roger Ebert; \u201c\u2018The Movies Are\u2019: Carl Sandburg\u2019s Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928\u201d edited by Arnie Bernstein; \u201cA History of X\u201d by Luke Ford; \u201cCarnal Knowledge\u201d","by John Baxter; Newsweek; rottentomatoes.com; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; Chicago Tribune. Classical Music The Penguin Companion to Classical Music by Paul Griffiths; Blumenfeld\u2019s Dictionary of Musical Theater by Robert Blumenfeld; \u201cEccentric Britain\u201d by Benedict le Vay; Bartlett\u2019s Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman and Andre Bernard; \u201cThe House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War\u201d by Alexander Waugh; \u201cMendelssohn: A Life in Music\u201d by R. Larry Todd; \u201cPuccini: His Life and Works\u201d by Julian Budden; All Music Guide to Classical Music, edited by Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan and Allen Schrott; officialcharts.com. Modern Art \u201cAnecdotes of Modern Art\u201d by Donald Hall and Pat Corrington Wykes; \u201cThe Life and Death of Andy Warhol\u201d by Victor Bockris; \u201cPop Art\u201d by Tilman Osterwold; \u201cRetailing\u201d edited by Anne M. Findlay and Leigh Sparks; \u201cLives of Great 20th Century Artists\u201d by Edward Lucie-Smith; \u201cShock of the New\u201d by Robert Hughes; Art in America magazine; Grove Art Online; artforum.com; artinfo.com; Tribune archives and news services. Music Festivals \u201cMusic of the Gilded Age\u201d by John Ogasapian and N. Lee Orr; \u201cWoodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World\u201d by Mike Evans and Paul Kingsbury; \u201cAlternative Rock\u201d by Dave Thompson; \u201cBack to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation\u201d by Pete Fornatale; \u201cHollywood Songsters, Volume 2\u201d by James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts; \u201cChicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs\u201d by Ann Durkin Keating; The New York Times; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Sunday Mirror; The Globe and Mail; newportfolkfest.net. CHAPTER 14: Sports Football Coaches \u201cDr. Eddie Anderson, Hall of Fame College Football Coach\u201d by Kevin Carroll; \u201cJohnny U: The Life and Times of John Unitas\u201d by Tom Callahan; \u201cWhen All the World was Browns Town\u201d by Terry Pluto; \u201cGreen Bay Packers: The Complete Illustrated History\u201d by Don Gulbrandsen; \u201cRace and Sport: The Struggle for Equality On and Off the Field\u201d edited by Charles K. Ross; \u201cFritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement\u201d by John M. Carroll; \u201cWe Are the Bears!: The Oral History of the Chicago Bears\u201d by Richard Whittingham; \u201cSports Illustrated: Great Football Writing\u201d by Editors of Sports Illustrated; The Associated Press; Cody Coil of KBTX-TV; Houston Chronicle; Tribune archives. College Football \u201cRites of Autumn\u201d by Richard Whittingham; Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Marin Independent Journal; Evansville Courier & Press; Detroit Free Press; The Columbus Dispatch; Auburn University. Bicycles \u201cBicycle: The History\u201d by David V. Herlihy; \u201cBicycling Science\u201d by David Gordon Wilson; \u201cThe Secret History of Balls\u201d by Josh Chetwynd; \u201cThe Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 6\u201d edited by Ann Gordon; Chicago Tribune; The Guardian; VeloNews; Outside; forbes.com; imdb.com; hovding.com; openstreetsproject.org. Wrigley Field \u201cWrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography\u201d by Stuart Shea with George Castle; \u201cMr. Wrigley\u2019s Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs During the Jazz Age\u201d by Roberts Ehrgott; Society of American Baseball Research; baseball-reference.com; baseball-almanac.com; laist.com; Tribune archives.","Sports Gambling Las Vegas Sun; Tribune news services; \u201cWinning Is the Only Thing\u201d by Randy Roberts and James Olson; \u201cThe Man With the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories\u201d by Michael Konik; American Heritage Dictionary; The Times of London. The Olympics \u201cHistorical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement\u201d edited by John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle; \u201cThe Complete Book of the Olympics\u201d by David Wallechinsky; \u201cGeneral Patton: A Soldier\u2019s Life\u201d by Stanley Hirshson; \u201cJohnny Weissmuller: Twice the Hero\u201d by David Fury; \u201cJesse Owens: An American Life\u201d by William J. Baker; The Wall Street Journal; Tribune news services. Olympians \u201cThe Complete Book of the Olympics\u201d by David Wallechinsky; \u201cNapoleon\u2019s Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History\u201d by Phil Mason; \u201cOlympic Gold\u201d by Robin Poke; \u201cDuty, Honor, Victory: America\u2019s Athletes in World War II\u201d by Gary Bloomfield; \u201cBy the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions\u201d by Richard Cohen; \u201cWomen and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives\u201d edited by D. Margaret Costa and Sharon Ruth Guthrie; \u201cThe Olympics\u2019 Most Wanted\u201d by Floyd Conner; \u201cHistorical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement\u201d by Bill Mallon and Jeroen Heijmans; \u201cCelebrity in the 21st Century: A Reference Handbook\u201d by Larry Z. Leslie; The Atlantic magazine; Tribune archives. The Olympic Torch \u201cHitler\u2019s Olympics\u201d by Christopher Hilton; bbc.com; olympic.org; National Geographic; \u201cMy Olympic Journey\u201d by James Worrall; wired.com; Tribune news services. Running \u201cCassell\u2019s Dictionary of Slang\u201d by Jonathon Green; \u201cRunning Through the Ages\u201d by Edward Seldon Sears; \u201cThe Olympic Odyssey\u201d by Phil Cousineau; \u201cThe Complete Book of the Summer Olympics\u201d by David Wallechinsky; \u201cThe Dickson Baseball Dictionary\u201d by Paul Dickson; \u201cAfrican- American Sports Greats\u201d by David L. Porter; \u201cOnly in Oregon\u201d by Christine Barnes; Oxford English Dictionary; baseball-reference.com; espn.go.com; nike.com; npr.org; The Oregonian; The New York Times; The Christian Science Monitor.","ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to thank their many Chicago Tribune editors over the years, especially Marcia Lythcott. The Tribune\u2019s photo desk also has been a key resource, particularly Robin Daughtridge and Marianne Mather. Graphic artist Mike Miner provided years of solid support bringing \u201c10 Things\u201d to life in the pages of the newspaper. Finally, our gratitude to John McCormick for contributing amazing facts about Iowa.","ABOUT THE AUTHORS MARK JACOB is the associate managing editor for metropolitan news at the Chicago Tribune and the coauthor of six books. He lives with his wife in Evanston, Illinois. STEPHAN BENZKOFER worked for the Chicago Tribune for nearly 20 years and coedited, with Mark Jacob, the paper\u2019s popular feature column 10 Things You Might Not Know. He is now the owner of Benzkofer Communications and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his family.",""]