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020			_a9781848541009
040			_aKenya National Library Service
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100			_aPollard, Justin _eauthor
245			_aThe interesting bits : _bThe history you might have missed / _cJustin Pollard.
300			_axx, 297 pages ; _c20cm.
520			_aDid you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking stick. For some unknown reason the
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