{"id":13006,"date":"2013-09-20T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13006"},"modified":"2013-09-18T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:51:47","slug":"book-report-curious-events-in-history-by-michael-powell-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/book-report-curious-events-in-history-by-michael-powell-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Curious Events in History<\/i> by Michael Powell (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0760790973\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0760790973&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/curiouseventsinhistory.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>I recognized the author&#8217;s name, and when I Noggled him, I remembered that I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/book-report-the-lowbrow-guide-to-world-history-by-michael-powell-2004\/\" target=\"_blank\">his other book that I read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0760790973\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0760790973&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> is different; it does not take the snark summary view.  Instead, it gives a couple hundred words on individual events such as The Murderer from the Mayflower, the First Kamikaze, H-Day in Sweden, the Man Who Walked Around the World, and more.  It&#8217;s like a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/22\/blogrolled\/\" target=\"_blank\">Damn Interesting<\/a> collection.  (Are those guys still around?  It would seem so.) <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, a much better read than <em>The Lowbrow Guide to World History<\/em>, and I&#8217;m envious.  I almost wish I could gather the steam to put out a collection like this.  Maybe I will sometime.  I still have like 3 ISBN to fill.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0760790973&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recognized the author&#8217;s name, and when I Noggled him, I remembered that I his other book that I read. But this book is different; it does not take the snark summary view. Instead, it gives a couple hundred words on individual events such as The Murderer from the Mayflower, the First Kamikaze, H-Day in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13007,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions\/13007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}