Futility Closet

Futility Closet
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0989887103
ISBN-13 : 9780989887106
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Book Synopsis Futility Closet by : Greg Ross

Download or read book Futility Closet written by Greg Ross and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nine years the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents the best of them: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting, and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle hours.


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