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Reinventing the Almanac: Schott's Miscellany 2008
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, February 28, 2008.
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Did you know that the word "auctioneer" turns 300 years old in 2008? Or that the average British woman will vacuum a distance of 73-hundred miles during the course of her life? You can find those and many other facts within the pages of Schott’s Miscellany 2008, a new almanac from writer Ben Schott. Ben's been collecting various tidbits of information and bundling them up into elegant, informative volumes for about 6 years now. He talked with Word of Mouth host Virginia Prescott about his latest book and the volumes of information he carries around in his head.
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