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1000 Things Worth Knowing

by Nathaniel C. FOWLER, JR. (1858 - 1918)

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Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large section on medical emergency and health. Items are arranged in alphabetical order, so there is no logical presentation, but reference is made easy. Or, it is just interesting browsing, and a glimpse into the world of the early twentieth century. - Summary by Larry Wilson

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Listen next episodes of 1000 Things Worth Knowing:
Accidents - Baths , Bleeding - Chilblains , Cleanliness - Diphtheria , Coal Industry - Comets , Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism , Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets , Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth , Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods , Disinfectants - Dog Bites , Distances Between Cities in the United States , Diving Bells - Dynamite , Drowning , Drowning Another Method - Emergencies with Children , Earth Facts - Earthquakes , Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement , Emergency Medicines - Glycerin , Emergency Medicines - Peppermint - Emetics and Stimulants , Errors of History - Esperanto , Exercise - Fainting , Failures - Farm Production , Feeding an Invalid - Fumigating a Sick-Room , First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather , Freemasonry - Grain Industry , Getting Things into the Eye, Nose, Ear, etc. - Hiccoughs , Gravity - Great Tunnels , Hair Growers - Health , Historical Facts , Holy Grail - Insane , How to Avoid Accidents - Neuralgia , Iron Industry - Languages of the World , Large Cities of North America Akron, O. - Muskogee, Okla. , Large Cities of North America Nashua, N. H. - Winnipeg, Man. , Law - Liquor and Wine Industry , Literature - Moon , Mortality - Naturalization , Newspapers - Ocean Ownership , Old Time Ships - Partnership , Patent Medicines , Perpetual Motion - Pole Star , Poison - For Poisonous Mushrooms , Population and Land Area of the United States - Population Per Square Mile , Porto Rico - Principal Countries of the World , Printing Presses - Pure Food , Pulse - Scalds and Burns , Pyramids - Roads , Round Table - Seven Deadly Sins , Seven Liberal Arts - Ship Bells , Shock or Collapse -Sore Throat , Slavery - Solar System , Some Things Worth Knowing - Spectacles and Glasses , Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Airship Records - Endurance Records , Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Hammer Throwing - Shot Putting Professional , Sporting, Speed, and Other Records - Skating Amateur - Walking Records Professional , Sprains - Sunstroke , Standard Time - Stars, Their Number , Star Spangled Banner - Statistics of Population United States, by States , Stature and Weights , Steam Engine - Sugar Industry , Sunday Schools - Telegraph , Telephone - Thunder , Temperature of the Body - Vomiting , Ticket-of-Leave - Tom Thumb , To Produce Different Colors - Turbines , Type - United States Flag , United States History in Brief , University Extension - Watered Stock , Wealth of Nations - Wedding Anniversaries , Weights and Measures , What to Do in Emergencies , Wills - Woman's Suffrage , Women Voters - Yankee Doodle