Flip Side of History

Hidden History, Strange Stories, and Hard-to-Believe HeadlinesWhat ifthere was a flip side to thehistory channel?What would you dowith all thehistorical factsandtalesleft out of history textbooks? From the host of the popularUseless Informationpodcast, Steve Silverman,comes a collection offun history facts, strange news, andlost stories. True Storiesand randomtriviathat willentertain orliven up any conversation.InTheFlip Sideof History: Fascinating True Stories that Time Has Long Forgotten, you can read about common folk and not-so-common knowledge.In thiscollection of over thirty historical events,Steve Silverman providesfascinatingstories and easy to readfacts.Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories highlight the quirks, complexities, and curiousness of man. Stranger thanStranger Things.TheFlip Sideof Historygives youtalesfullofstrange news,trivia,and facts.Somemadenewspaper headlines, others were lost inhistory: A prominent lawyer leaves his entire estate to a town for the establishment of a library that forbids women-setting off riots, arrests, and the near hanging of a judge. The amazing story of the only person rescued from slavery by the Underground Railroad four times. That time amanin the 1950sstole hundreds of women's shoes in Coronado and San Diego, California.The shoes, most of them the left shoe,werefound dispersed randomly all over town. If you're a fan of theFloridaManChallenge and books likeThe Book of Unusual Knowledge,The Way I Heard It,Interesting Stories for Curious People, orThe Greatest Stories Never Told;thenTheFlip Sideof Historyis the book for you!