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Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth

And Other Historical Fallacies

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Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth focuses on the erroneous facts that continue to distort the annals of world history.

To counter all those fabricated facts you have learnt through the years, here is a guide to the truth behind the myths, including: Sir Walter Raleigh did not bring the potato nor tobacco back from the New World; Abraham Lincoln did not write the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope; King Ethelred the Unready was not unprepared; St George was not English; and of course Queen Elizabeth did not have wooden teeth!

Written with wit and fascinating insight, and covering numerous subjects from royalty to religion, saints to statesmen, inventors to explorers, Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth is guaranteed to astonish and inform, amuse and entertain.

About the Author

Andrea Barham is also the author of the bestselling The Pedant's Revolt and The Pedant's Return .

Forword p. 7
Anomalous Ancients p. 9
Counterfeit Kings (pre-conquest) p. 22
Questionable Queens p. 31
Fallacious Folk Heroes p. 44
Spurious Statesmen p. 56
Felonious Femnales p. 67
Erroneous Explorers p. 81
Calumnious Claims p. 93
Counterfeit Kings (post-conquest) p.104
Muddled Militaria p.118
Illusory Inventors p.128
Less-Than-Likely Last Words p.138
Dubious Discoverers p.145
Misattributed Quotes p.156
Phony Phrase Origins p.164
Suspect Saints p.172
Wrong Religion p.180
Acknowledgements p.189
Select Bibliography p.190
Useful Websites p.192
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ISBN: 9781843172390
ISBN-10: 1843172399
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: 11th October 2007
Dimensions (cm): 18.542 x 12.7  x 2.286
Weight (kg): 0.272