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Great Mysteries of the Past: Experts Unravel Fact and Fallacy Behind the Headlines of the Times
Great Mysteries of the Past Experts Unravel Fact and Fallacy Behind the Headlines of the Times Author:The Editors of Reader's Digest Did you know: — Some of Germany's rarest art treasures, having disappeared at the end of World War II, turned up in a small Texas town in 1990? — Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible outdid England's King Henry VIII in acquiring wives? He had seven to Henry's six! — Although he masterminded the top-secret project that produced the first... more » atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer was later declared a security risk?
Early in 1941 the U.S. Secretary of the Navy said it was possible that war would start with a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
King Ludwig II of Bolivia liked to dine along, preferring as company statues of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France?
Notorious gunman Jesse James met his end when a former comrade shot him while he was standing on a chair dusting off a picture frame?« less