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Endlessly entertaining, these albums of mad miscellany abound with true tales of history's strangest characters and events—from potty potentates to dotty inventions. A mind-boggling excursion through the byways of the bizarre.
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The first emperor of China, Shi Huangdi has gone down in history as a mighty ruler who united the country, standardised written characters and currency, and oversaw the construction of road and canal networks as well as the linking of various border walls into one Great Wall.
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