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    Children's Miscellany: Volume 2
    Children's Miscellany: Volume 2
    Children's Miscellany: Volume 2
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    Children's Miscellany: Volume 2

    By Dominique Enright

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    The sequel to the best-selling Children's Miscellany. Packed full of even more, even smarter, even stranger facts, Children's Miscellany Volume Two includes Shakespearian insults, the longest place names in the world, five ways to de-smell your trainers and how to hypnotize a chicken!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9781780552194
    Children's Miscellany: Volume 2
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    Dominique Enright

    Dominique Enright is a freelance writer and editor. She has a degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Her previous work for Michael O'Mara Books includes The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, and she is also the compiler and editor of selections from the verse of Burns, Keats, Kipling and Wordsworth. She lives in London with her husband; they have three grown-up children.

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      Children's Miscellany - Dominique Enright

      NOTE TO READERS

      The publisher and authors disclaim any liability for accidents or injuries that may occur as a result of information given in this book.

      Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this book is correct at the time of going to press. Nevertheless, some of the information is, by its very nature, anecdotal, changeable or disputable, and cannot therefore be assumed to be authoritative or exhaustive.

      The book is, however, guaranteed to be thoroughly enjoyable.

      First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Buster Books,

      an imprint of Michael O’Mara Books Limited

      9 Lion Yard

      Tremadoc Road

      London SW4 7NQ

      Copyright © 2005 by Buster Books

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchase.

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN: 978-1-905158-16-4 in hardback print format

      ISBN: 978-1-78055-219-4 in Epub format

      ISBN: 978-1-78055-220-0 in Mobipocket format

      www.busterbooks.co.uk

      Written by Dominique Enright

      Contributions by Sarah Jones

      Edited by Ellen Bailey

      Interior illustrations by Niki Catlow

      Cover illustration by Jane Massey

      Designed by Buster Books

      Grateful thanks to Toby Buchan; Athene Chanter; Peter Bailey and Daisy Coma

      CONTENTS

      Lifetime averages

      Tricks for winning at conkers

      Cryptids

      Double-jointedness

      Disgusting and dangerous plants

      Cool transport

      Things to dress up as when running a marathon

      How to get rid – ‘hic’ – of hiccups

      The afterlife

      Funny bones

      Yuor azamnig mnid

      Wise words

      Arch-enemies of superheroes

      Morse code alphabet

      Down the hatch

      Things that have rained from the sky

      What green means

      Who is that relative?

      Diseases you really don’t want to catch

      The best way to make yourself dizzy

      The origins of the salute

      Seven modern world wonders

      Seven natural world wonders

      The five stages of sleep

      Rubber bands

      Chicken flight

      How to hypnotize a chicken

      Why boys are better than girls

      Why girls are better than boys

      What kind of maniac are you?

      Early brain surgery

      The silent alphabet

      The Mozart effect

      When should you sneeze?

      Longest sneezing bout

      Elbow

      Computer bytes

      What is air?

      Pointless instructions

      What to do if zombies attack

      True or false?

      What is a googol?

      Cockney rhyming slang

      Men who were women

      Would you rather…

      Vegetables which are in fact fruits

      Nelson’s body parts

      Spiders’ webs

      Things to put in a time capsule

      Very strange games

      Dogs’ work

      Things you wish you didn’t know about the Romans

      Who is Doctor Who?

      Capital cities you might not know

      How to make a waterbomb

      Secrets of snot

      Egyptian gods and their animal forms

      The Simpsons

      Strawberries

      Bits of brain

      Language families

      What to do in an earthquake

      Ten books

      Film facts

      The amount of DNA you share with…

      Clandestine Government Organizations

      Light, sound and electricity in animals

      The meaning of dreams

      Strange swallowings

      Things that have claws

      Fire talk

      The Great Fire of London

      King Arthur’s knights of the round table

      Names celebrities have given their children

      Chocolate timeline

      Funny facial hairstyles

      Three cups trick

      Items not allowed in your hand luggage

      Lord Oxford’s fart

      Extreme Earth

      Skin deep

      Mythical creatures

      Riddles

      Micro or nano?

      Real-life pirates

      What do toothless animals eat?

      I invented it. No, I invented it

      What yellow means

      How to write a haiku

      Excuse me

      Incredible insects

      Oldest playable musical instrument

      Yy u r yy u b i c u r yy 4 me

      Famous Nobel Prize Winners

      Real alternatives to toilet paper

      How many magpies?

      Message not always fully understood

      Farts

      Siege engines

      Strange remedies

      Things that harm the planet

      How to fly a helicopter

      Things that shrink

      Sporting losers

      The worst place to…

      The rhyming weather forecast

      Things we use trees for

      Shakespearian insults

      Abbreviations

      Famous real-life dogs

      Famous real-life cats

      Fortune finder

      Vitamin deficiencies

      Orange, purple and silver

      Top five all-time worldwide box-office hits

      The Chinese calendar

      Phrenology

      Causes of crop-circles: theories

      Body appendages

      Animals that can change colour

      Space firsts

      Are you in proportion?

      Onomatopoeic words

      The Great Pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops) at Giza

      The Enigma machine

      What red means

      Who is that celebrity?

      One hundred and one

      Survivors of assassination attempts

      An alchemist’s recipe for gold

      ‘Facts’ that are not true

      Animals that metamorphose

      Stack the blocks

      What do you get when you cross…

      Great warriors

      How fast is the world spinning?

      Silly signs

      The Nato alphabet

      Criminal masterminds?

      Something fishy

      I feel the need, the need for speed

      How to turn your watch into a compass

      Four-year-olds

      The origins of text messaging

      Emoticons

      Real newspaper headlines

      Cartoon cats

      Cartoon dogs

      Who’s the tallest

      Reds, blues and greens

      Ways to choose who is ‘it’

      What does your handwriting say about you?

      Postage stamps

      Things that are fun to say

      Like which animal?

      Inventions that didn’t make it

      The predictions of Nostradamus

      Three terrifying people

      Big birds

      Fun houses

      Hairy humans

      Extreme ironing

      Ten famous volcanoes

      Which doorway?

      A baby in Florida

      Medieval torture instruments

      Funny place names around the world

      Richest women in the world

      For your address book

      How long do your cells live?

      The twelve labours of Hercules

      2B or not 2B?

      Pigpen

      Insect grub

      Your birthday

      Jaws

      Days of the week

      Absence excuse notes

      Super powers

      Statues

      Vaccines in fruits

      They say it’s going to rain if…

      Opposites

      Why you don’t want to mess with creepy crawlies

      More ‘facts’ that are not true

      City anagrams

      Imposters

      Highest-earning fictional characters

      The signs of madness

      Card trick

      Say what you see

      Hottest, coldest, driest, wettest

      Your Brain

      Locusts

      The Olympic Games

      What’s black and white and red all over?

      Famous ghosts

      Mixing colour

      The fate of the children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

      Finger fun

      What teachers really mean

      Why is the sky blue?

      Everyday inventions

      Countries with the most tractors per person

      Annoying things teachers always say

      Music genres

      Names of the months

      Seven spells from Harry Potter

      How to fake a

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