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Author: Leon Conrad Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1782792937 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 180
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Enjoy stories? Enjoy history? You’ll love this book! How well do you know your history? Pit your wits against this collection of 30 cultural riddles featuring popular historical stories and legends. Engage with these riddles out of sheer fun and curiosity as a reader, or use them when facilitating an Odyssey Dynamic Learning System journey (Liberalis Books, 2015). You’ll find they intrigue, tease, inform, educate, enlighten, and entertain. Still guessing? There are clues to help you. Think you’ve cracked them? Check out the background information for the answers and for suggestions on exploring topics further. How many riddles will you be able to solve?
Author: Leon Conrad Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1782792937 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Enjoy stories? Enjoy history? You’ll love this book! How well do you know your history? Pit your wits against this collection of 30 cultural riddles featuring popular historical stories and legends. Engage with these riddles out of sheer fun and curiosity as a reader, or use them when facilitating an Odyssey Dynamic Learning System journey (Liberalis Books, 2015). You’ll find they intrigue, tease, inform, educate, enlighten, and entertain. Still guessing? There are clues to help you. Think you’ve cracked them? Check out the background information for the answers and for suggestions on exploring topics further. How many riddles will you be able to solve?
Author: Michael Koerner Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098078721 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 93
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The American History Riddle BookMichael J. KoernerSo you think you know your American history? Michael Koerner has devised over one hundred fiendishly clever riddles about American history, culture, and peopleaEUR"with a few literary types and fictional characters thrown in just for fun. These riddles are challengingaEUR"after all, theyaEUR(tm)re riddles and not meant to be solved in an instant. You might get a few right off, but we promise that many of these will leave you scratching your head.You might have to go to the internet, encyclopedia, or your old high school history textbook for clues to the answer, or you can just look at the answer key in the back of this book, which not only identifies the person, place, or event but includes background information for each.HereaEUR(tm)s your chance to show just how smart you are. Challenge your students, your kids, your friends, or yourself with this delightful and very thought-provoking book!
Author: Leon Conrad Publisher: Liberalis ISBN: 9781782792949 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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How well do you know your history? Pit your wits against this collection of 30 cultural riddles featuring popular historical stories and legends.
Author: Marcel Danesi Publisher: Wellfleet Press ISBN: 0760367329 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 155
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Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 250 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving, so get ready to put on your thinking cap! The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphinx) to the twenty-first century, with riddles found in pop culture, including movies, books, and video games. Riddles are ageless, timeless, and so common that we hardly ever reflect upon what they are and how they originated. Riddles come in all languages and from all eras of human history, making them a truly “curious” history. In The Curious History of the Riddle, puzzle expert Marcel Danesi delves deep into the riddle's origin and offers a concise snapshot of riddles throughout time—from the Riddle of the Sphinx, to the riddles in Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, to those found in the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings book series, and much more—covering these fascinating topics: Ancient riddles Medieval riddles Riddles in the Renaissance Riddles as part of leisure culture Riddles in literature Riddles in popular culture Rebuses as visual riddles The Puzzlecraft series from Wellfleet Press tackles some of the greatest conundrums of our time. Learn how to navigate the world’s trickiest mazes, solve the most complex crosswords, and finally get the answer to “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Follow literature’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he guides you through hundreds of challenging cross-fitness brain exercises inspired by his most popular cases and adventures. You can also train your memory to perform better and learn the meanings behind your own personality traits or the traits of others. These handy and portable paperbacks are sized perfectly to travel, whether on vacation or just for your daily commute. The intricately designed covers and bold colors will capture your attention as much as the engaging content inside. Other titles in the series include: The Curious History of Mazes; The Curious History of the Crossword; Escape from Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Code Breakers; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Math & Logic Games; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Visual Puzzles; Sherlock Holmes Puzzles: Lateral Brain Teasers; Solving Sherlock Homes; Solving Sherlock Holmes Volume II; Maximize Your Memory; and The Book of Personality Tests.
Author: Leon Conrad
Author: Leon Conrad
Author: WILLIAM. HARTSTON
Author: Philippe Ariès
Author: James FISHER (of Annan, N.B.)
Author: James Fisher
Author: Michael Koerner
Author: Leon Conrad
Author: Francis Adelbert Blackburn
Author: Cyrus Herzl Gordon
Author: Marcel Danesi