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Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students

Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:

Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"

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Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"

Rasputin was a pheasant by birth

Judyism had one big God named Yahoo

Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand

Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator

The Civil Rights movement turned the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous "If I Had a Hammer" speech

Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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