The Hippocampal Region of the Domestic Pig: A Histochemical, Immunocytochemical, and Morphometrical Study

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Chatty Belle, the World's Largest Talking Cow. The Mendota Monster. Apostles on Parade. The UFO Capital of the World. Romeo, the clown-stomping elephant. Car-washing octopi. Other travel guides suggest the same old scenic driving tours, homey bed-and-breakfasts, and the best fall foliage— Oddball Wisconsin offers offbeat travel destinations and little-known historical tidbits. Where was Liberace born? What is a hodag and where do you catch one? Who invented the hamburger? And will a Polka Hall of Fame ever be built? This is the guide to the real Wisconsin, birthplace of the snowmobile, the typewriter, and the ice cream sundae, home to Jimmy the Groundhog and home of the Rudolph Grotto and Wonder Cave—the state where people proudly wear the moniker “cheesehead.”

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On, Wisconsin, indeed........2006-06-22

This is one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read about my home state--in the midst of so much (generally) endearing weirdness, Jerome Pohlen manages to capture the spirit of this place better than any "Discover Wisconsin" ad campaign I've ever seen.

Pohlen casts a broad swath over the entire state, even above Highway 8 "up nort" (a lot of people tend to forget that we even exist, so it's always refreshing to find someone who hasn't), in search of the strange, the homespun, the downright wacky, even the morbid. And he finds it in spades. Whether you're a local Sconny looking for some ideas for day trips, or an out-of-stater passing through on the way to the Dells, there's something in this book that you'll feel compelled to stop & see. Well, if you're into fiberglass oddities and going somewhere other than Door County, that is.

Love this book.......2006-06-07

This is a fun and interesting book about Wisconsin.
Each chapter, according to areas of the state, gets better and better. I couldn't put it down!

I Love This Book !.......2002-10-01

If you have an appetite for the curious or offbeat, this book will fill the bill. I don't have plans to visit all the places and things mentioned in this book, but just sitting and reading it was a hoot. Not just a guide to the oddball, but histories and trivia are included. This is Wisconsin at its best.

Road tripping through Wisconsin's unusual side.......2002-07-11

Most people when they go on vacation go to national parks like the Grand Canyon or theme parks like Disneyland. How many would go to see the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame with a giant embalmed worm on display? Or how about the world's biggest corkscrew? A serial killer's grave? The author saw these things and more in Wisconsin and compiled them into this book. It's an enjoyable journey through Wisconsin's strange side and is recommended for die-hard road trippers or those interested in America's stranger side.

Cheeze Heads Unite!.......2001-05-12

Where does this guy get all this information? I thought the book would only be full of goofy things like monolithic cheese monuments and the world's largest six pack. Although it has that in spades, there are also plenty of historical places to see, like the shrine to the birthplace of the Republican party and the grave of Edward Gein, inspiration for Silence of the Lambs.

Growing up on the west coast, we used to watch movies about the midwest and say things like, "Wouldn't you go absolutely insane in some small town out there?" Oddball Wisconsin has answered my question.

This is a great book if you're in the area or just want to get out of Chicago for a while.

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A critical examination of the Potsdam Accords and Morgenthau plan.......2006-08-07

I bought Gruesome Harvest several years ago, but never read it until this summer. This book is a full-frontal assault on the genocidal Morgenthau Plan and the Potsdam accords. But how accurate is it? Very accurate. My mother was a civilian employee of the United States Armed Forces and a resident of the French Zone of occupation after World War II. The information in this book corresponds directly with her accounts of life there after the war. It's interesting to note that there was a hierarchy of food availability in the U.S. occupied zone - the military naturally got as much food as they needed, then the DP's or Displaced Persons also had access to good nutrition. Finally, the Germans were at the bottom of the food chain, given a subsistence diet of 1,200 calories a day. The author cites studies from The University of Minnesota of the results of feeding people 1,650 calories a day "Within six months each man lost a fourth of his weight and experienced fainting spells, dizziness, and a feeling of always being cold. Their hearts shrank and some had to have two blankets even in summer. All lost three-fourths of their energy and work ability." He also cites a similar study of an experiment conducted by Northwestern University Medical School; " ... after six weeks, however, they showed a slow, progressive deterioration in physical and mental health, accompanied by loss of endurance, skin lesions, leg pains, and mental slowness." The 1,200 calorie diet was all the more horrific because the majority of the 15 million German expellees were resettled into the bombed out ruins of the Western zones (not Soviet zone) of occupation after having been starved, repeatedly raped, and otherwise abused by the Soviets and their puppets. And who were these 15 million refugees, Nazi war criminals and camp guards? No, they were primarily women, the elderly and children. The men, as this book illustrates, were all in prison camps, consigned to slave labor in Siberia and other parts of the former Soviet Union by the Yalta and Potsdam accords; also used as slave labor under horrific conditions by the British, French and Americans.
In hindsight, it can be noted that Harry Truman was inexperienced in world affairs, and he inherited an impossible situation from FDR. The former president, an egomaniacal imbecile thought his charm would work wonders with Stalin - it's frightening to think what the outcome in Europe would have been had he lived 2 years longer. Also, in defense of Truman it should be noted that he inherited from FDR an administration padded with Stalinist communists including Hiss and White who were making many decisions relevant to Germany. From other accounts I've read, Morgenthau's intent was to starve to death 30 to 40 million Germans out of psychotic bloodlust revenge, while his aide Harry Dexter White intended to do similar things to create a situation in Germany in which the Germans would be so horrified they would run to Stalin as a savior and protector, i.o.w. Germany would go communist. Also, Stalin (according to this book) was dangling a carrot over the German's heads-the return of the lost territories-if the Germans would switch sides and go communist.
What was the result of Potsdam and the Morgenthau starvation policies? No doubt the death by starvation and disease of several millions of Germans. In some parts of Germany, infant mortality rates after the war were upwards of 100%. There are some of us who don't believe any government (Hitler's nor Roosevelt's) should be in the business of starving people to death. Apparently, Americans don't learn from their mistakes, going by the repulsive Clinton Administration Secretary of State Albright saying "We think it's worth it" in reply to a question about starving Iraqi children to death.
How dire was the situation in occupied Germany? From Page 16; "On the train to Berlin, she was pillaged once by Russian troops and twice by Poles...Women who resisted were shot dead, she said, and on one occasion she saw a guard take an infant by the legs and crush its skull against a post because the child cried while the guard was raping its mother." ... "An old peasant from Silesia said...victims were robbed of everything they had, even their shoes. Infants were robbed of their swaddling clothes so that they froze to death. All the healthy girls and women, even those 65 years of age were raped in the train and then robbed, the peasant said."
On Page 111, the author gives an example of the FDR administrations bizarre take on the basic right of freedom of speech "In March 1945, GI's in Germany were actually placed under official orders not to make unflattering remarks about the Reds (Russians). Typical of our un-American efforts to throttle criticism was AMG censorship in April, 1946, of a letter by a Catholic Bishop calling attention to Russian abuses of Germans through forced labor and expulsions. We prohibited the reading of the letter in churches, because it might offend Russia." The author then goes on to state the following; "We must realize that there is something seriously wrong with nations, as with people, who cannot stand criticism, who try to place themselves beyond reproach, and that something is equally wrong with people who truckle to them." The reader of this book should think of the USA today in 2006, and how this truth still holds.
Finally, here's a bit of wisdom from Page 130; " No. If totalitarianism is coming to the United States it will come because the American people can be charmed by insincere, superficial, adroit politicians and fail to demand the leadership of men of character, of courage, of honesty." Just think of Clinton & Dubya when you read this.
My only other criticism of this book is the author's seemingly negative attitude towards American GI's, especially African-American GI's. The Americans were known to be among the best behaved soldiers during the post-war occupation of Germany. In the 1970's I was in Germany and remember a German woman telling me "If a German's car breaks down, no German will stop to help, only African-American soldiers stop and help." I remember the overall attitude of Germans as friendly and favorable to African-American GI's, but also remember being told by Germans that they feared and loathed French colonial troops, particularly Moroccans, who raped and assaulted German women in the postwar years. I have also read German accounts of the immediate post-war years in which it was stated that African-American GI's treated the Germans better than many Caucasian American soldiers who acted with snobbery and arrogance. Overall, my minor criticisms aside, this is a very detailed and easy-to-read historical document about the origins of the cold war and the failures of psychotic American policy based on stupidity, revenge and Stalin-appeasement.

Amazing lesser-known facts, well researched.......2004-09-04

For those interested in knowing all of world war 2 history, and not just the rosy view from the perspective of the victor, this book is a must read. My mother's side of the family are ethnic German expellees from Yugoslavia and this book aided in explaining why my family went hungry in the American zone.

All too often the rhetoric we hear is the sufferings, both real and alleged, caused by those we defeat in war. We never hear about the atrocities that our side commits. This book exposes the atrocities the Allies committed willfully against civilians, leaving the reader asking why does our country claim the moral high ground?

This certainly qualifies to be called a "holocaust" against the German people, yet in our politically biased atmosphere it is unknown. For those of you interested in the human rights of all peoples, not just those we support in wars, this is a must for you. It will make you wonder what is wrong with your history books.

The American Murders of Jack the Ripper: Tantalizing Evidence of the Gruesome American Interlude of the Prime Ripper Suspect

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The American Murders of Jack the Ripper: Tantalizing Evidence of the Gruesome American Interlude of the Prime Ripper Suspect
R. Michael Gordon
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Four American women dead at the hands of a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper
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Gruesome Deaths And Celibate Lives: Christian Martyrs And Ascetics (Greece & Rome Live) (Greece & Rome Live)

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Gruesome Deaths And Celibate Lives: Christian Martyrs And Ascetics (Greece & Rome Live) (Greece & Rome Live)
Aideen M. Hartney
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From among the early Christian faithful emerged colorful personalities who seized the imagination and held the attention of their community, either by their readiness to die for their faith as martyrs or by their extravagant subsumation of earthly desires to spiritual ends as ascetics. Their actions inspired contemporaries, played a key role in the development of the Christian faith and the organization of the Church, and are venerated in the Christian tradition. This book places these remarkable figures in their historical and cultural context and explores the thinking behind their actions. It offers a clear portrait of the period and a rounded assessment of its protagonists, unbiased by the triumphalist approach of Christian commentary or the negativity of those who may disapprove of the way the Church developed. It is intended as an introduction for readers who approach late antiquity and early Christianity, whether from a sociological, historical or theological perspective.

Grisly Quiz Book and Gruesome Games (Horrible Histories)

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Grisly Quiz Book and Gruesome Games (Horrible Histories)
Terry Deary
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Gory and Gruesome Histories (Hands on)
Jim Hatfield
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Grisly and Gruesome (Discover Paintings)

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Grisly and Gruesome (Discover Paintings)
Ruth Thomson
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The Gruesome Doorway: An Analysis of the American Grotesque (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)

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The Gruesome Doorway: An Analysis of the American Grotesque (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
Paula M. Uruburu
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Gruesome Harvest: The Allies Postwar War Against the German People

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It is good to know the whole truth

Gruesome Harvest: The Allies Postwar War Against the German People
Keeling
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It is good to know the whole truth.......2000-05-02

This book is important for anyone who wants to know both sides of the history of WWII. Yes, the holocaust was bad, but what we did in the name of justice was equally bad.

Gruesome Histories (Funfax Eyewitness Books)

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Really interesting and entertaining!

Gruesome Histories (Funfax Eyewitness Books)
Susan Mayes , Fiona Waters , and Fiona MacKeith
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dad has a daily planner. Mom has an appointment book. Now children can have the Eyewitness Organizer. The diary, address book, and booklets of information help with schoolwork and make schooltime and freetime fun!

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Really interesting and entertaining!.......2003-11-06

I like this book a lot. Kids will love it too. Packs in a lot of information from history. It's gruesome so the kids will go wild!

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Strong Stomach Required

Period of the Gruesome
Jon Christopher Hughes
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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The Period of the Gruesome is the most extensive collection of stories written by the extraordinary 19th century journalist Lafcadio Hearn while he was a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati. It includes the only bibliography of Hearn's Cincinnati writings. The 54 stories presented in this study were selected from the 439 contributions Hearn made to three publications ("The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ye Giglampz," and "The Cincinnati Commercial") between November 1872 and April 1878. Presented chronologically, these stories were chosen for their uniqueness both in content and style.

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Strong Stomach Required.......2005-09-18

I wonder why on earth Lafcadio Hearne's remarkable life has never been the subject of a motion picture? That's a tremendous oversight on Hollywood's part that deprives the public of coming to know a man whose lifetime accomplishments were every bit as fascinating and unbelievable as those of his contemporary, the famed British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton.

In Period of the Gruesome, author Jon Christopher Hughes has done a very glorious thing. He has gone back through microfilm and dusty stacks of newspapers and gathered dozens of Hearne's articles that he wrote while working as a reporter at several Cincinnati newspapers in the 1870's. Hearne's writing is flawless, the style is literary and intelligent, but the subjects about which this 19th century Leonardo wrote are both wickedly lurid and wonderfully tabloidesque. I once let a friend of mine read the account of a police raid on an 1870's "abortion factory" in the West End of Cincinnati, and she ran screaming from the room. Yep, Hearne's newspaper pieces are still 130 years later THAT vivid.

Hearne was an amazing man. He was born a westerner with a curiosity for all things scientific, literary and unusual, and after working his way from one North American coastline to another as a newsman, he crossed to Asia and become a mountain climber. Later in life, he was the first Westerner to visit Tibet and meet the Dalai Lama. Hearne eventually retired to Tokyo to write poetry and tend to his gardens and died in old age a Japanese citizen. He was one part daredevil (he made a bare-handed climb of the 200-foot steeple at Cincinnati's St. Peter in Chains Cathedral as part of a publicity stunt) and part old-time journeyman reporter, who went out and found his stories--generally the most chilling sorts of them, too. Hearne prowled Bucktown (later made infamous in the novel and movie Beloved) which is today right about where the US Bank Arena sits on the riverfront, and was then the murder capital of the USA, a hangout for thieves, morphine-shooters, drunken rivermen, hobos, gamblers and other assorted ne'er do wells.

Hearne loved to shock and amaze, and he had a real gift for doing exactly those things in what he wrote. In one newspaper article included in Period of the Gruesome, Hearne attends along with lawmen while the body of a local businessman is unearthed after a fortnight's burial at Spring Grove Cemetery, in order for the Hamilton County coroner to examine the corpse for signs of blunt cranial trauma, indications that would point to the cause of death being murder, as the man's brother in law was suspected of committing against the late businessman. (The trauma was discovered, the brother in law charged, convicted and a year later, hanged.) Hearne also interviews "Resurrection men" grave robbers who stole bodies on behalf of medical colleges; murderers; opium dealers; a seller of therapeutic 'bovine blood cocktails' and writes some of the most spine tingling articles any media has ever featured.

In these essays about murders, gross-out accidents, abortionists, slaughterhouses, Fourth Street opium dens, executions and corruption among elected officials, Hearne makes the Cincinnati of his era seem a match for Sherlock Holmes' London across the ocean. Who would look out at the sedate landscape of our modern city's seven hills and guess that a half-dozen generations ago such depravity went on here and filled the headlines of the daily papers?

This book is disturbing, disgusting, exciting, amazing, and most of all completely true.

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too much david carson.......1999-08-04

if this annual is any indication, everything now produced commercially is by either carson or a recently graduated designer or student whose masturbatory dreams are all of cut-up and halfway readable typography... Please tell me there is more to modern type than this! Did I waste my college years? Should I have been a biology major insted?

David Carson is getting on my nerves.......1999-05-05

It's amazing the obsession of people in David Carson

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