Pennsylvania Oddities

Pennsylvania Oddities

Author: Marlin Bressi

Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.

Published: 2018-12-26

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1620060329

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Researcher and author Marlin Bressi has compiled a panoply of unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings throughout the history of the Keystone State. From unsolved mysteries, headless corpses, missing persons, to ghosts and missing treasure, Bressi's compilation is sure to entertain: CONTENTS: PART I: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES 1. The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery 2. Berks County's Missing Skeleton 3. Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar? 4. A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery 5. Allison Hill's House of Mystery 6. The Broad Mountain Mystery 7. The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939 8. The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing Head 9. The Mystery of the Murder Marsh PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE 10. The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of Pittsburgh 11. The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson 12. Witchcraft in Stony Creek Valley 13. The Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS Titanic 14. The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney 15. Simeon Pfoutz: Lord of the Manor 16. The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County 17. Mount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide Cell 18. A Tragedy in Ghost Hollow 19. The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax? 20. The Ticking Tombstone 21. A Ghost in the Furnace PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 22. Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd Wintersteen 23. The Hanging of Charles Chase 24. The Lutz Axe Murder 25. The Ghost of Adam Volkovitch 26. Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz & Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937 27. The Murder of Daisy Smith PART IV: ODDS AND ENDS (A collection of interesting newspaper clippings)


PENNSYLVANIA CURIOSITIES 4TH ED

PENNSYLVANIA CURIOSITIES 4TH ED

Author: Clark DeLeon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0762795840

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The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.


Pennsylvania Curiosities

Pennsylvania Curiosities

Author: Clark DeLeon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0762795859

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The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.


State Oddities

State Oddities

Author: Nancy Hendricks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-05-18

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1440876703

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State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and Stripes. State Oddities is a fascinating trip through the 50 states for students studying America, teachers planning classroom activities, and general readers who will enjoy an eye-opening journey through the nation's fun side. It offers a compelling look at the character of America through the individuality of 50 very distinct states that together form the USA. This book paints a picture of the broad sweep of the American story, offering a gateway to the country as it developed into one nation filled with individual states that can be remarkably different from each other, yet unified under such national symbols as the American flag and "The Star-Spangled Banner." The author of State Oddities has become known as a master of "painless history," telling America's story in a sparkling style along with the historian's eye for fascinating detail. On the book's cross-country journey, the reader will find that it differs from other works by taking a fresh look at stories we think we know.


Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Author: Matt Lake

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781402766862

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A illustrated collection of tales about weird places and folk traditions in Pennsylvania to be used as a travel guide.


Nebraska Curiosities

Nebraska Curiosities

Author: Rick Yoder

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-01-19

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1461747384

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Discover Nebraska’s curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Avoca Quack-Off, learn about the inland Linoma Lighthouse, view a Roller Skating Museum, and pay a visit to the world’s largest covered wagon. Only true Cornhuskers could capture the essence of these and other authentic Nebraska phenomena, and Rick Yoder and David Harding do their home state proud.


Iowa Curiosities

Iowa Curiosities

Author: Eric Jones

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-11-10

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0762761601

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!


Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

Author: Stephen Peters

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780761434030

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Celebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series by exploring the unique character of each state.


Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania

Legends & Lore of Western Pennsylvania

Author: Thomas White

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1625842643

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Thomas White spins a beguiling yarn with tales that reach from the misty hollows of the Alleghenies to the lost islands of Pittsburgh. Oppaymolleah's Curse. General Braddock's buried gold. The original man of steel, Joe Magarac. Such legends have found a home among the rich folklore of Western Pennsylvania. White invites readers to learn the truth behind the urban legend of the Green Man, speculate on the conspiracy surrounding the lost B-25 bomber of Monongahela and shiver over the ghostly lore of Western Pennsylvania.


Teaching from Bible Oddities

Teaching from Bible Oddities

Author: James E. Smith, Ph..D.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 035972292X

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Eighty-two unusual features of the Bible are used to launch a discussion of important truths about the Word of God.