Encyclopedia Idiotica
Stephen Weir · 2005
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The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero ... Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli ... the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion ... the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities ... the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire ... the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Barron''s Educational Series
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780764159176
Data source: Wikidata
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