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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950) (edit title/settings)

by Will Cuppy (Author) (edit contributors)

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So you think you know most of what there is to kow aboyt people like Nero and Cleopatra, Allexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godica and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy... read more

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  • “Either you go in for art and music or you neigh like a horse. Not both.”
    Will Cuppy

First Sentence edit see section history

EGYPT has been called the Gift of the Nile.

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PART I: IT SEEMS THERE WERE TWO EGYPTIANS
Cheops, or Khufu
Hatshepsut

PART II: ANCIENT GREAKS AND WORSE
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Hannibal
Cleopatra
Nero

PART III: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Attila the Hun
Charlemagne
Lady Godiva
Lucrezia Borgia
Philip the Sap

PART IV: A FEW GREATS
Louis XIV
Madame du Barry
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Frederick the Great

PART V: MERRIE ENGLAND
William the Conqueror
Henry VIII
Elizabeth
George III

PART VI: NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE
Leif the Lucky
Christopher Columbus
Montezuma
Captain John Smith
Miles Standish

PART VII: THEY ALL HAD THEIR FUN
Some Royal Pranks
Some Royal Stomachs

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Will Cuppy (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Fred Feldkamp (Editor)
  2. William Steig (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Holt
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1950
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 230

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Fine for teens or adults. Younger kids might not see the humor.

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Queen Victoria
  • The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
  • Hatshepsut The Queen who was King
  • Nero
  • Cleopatra
  • Peter the Great
  • Catherine the Great
  • Elizabeth I
  • Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy Publisher: Free Press
  • Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs
  • Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy
  • The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-but-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony (Cheryl Harness Histories)
  • George III
  • William the Conqueror
  • Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty
  • Louis XIV: The Other Side of the Sun
  • Frederick the Great
  • Alexander the Great
  • The Not-So-Nude Ride of Lady Godiva: & Other Morsels of Misinformation from the History Books
  • Lucrezia Borgia
  • Charlemagne (Vintage)

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