Fascinating, bizarre and hilarious facts about the most universal of experiences of life – birth, death and matrimony …All the female eggs needed to produce the next generation of the human race could be contained in the shell of one chicken’s egg … Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ cloakroom … Attila the Hun drank himself to death on his wedding night … in Tanzanian weddings the bride and groom sit on the lap of an old woman … Indian Chief Blackbird was buried sitting on his horse …From Roman births to Bedouin wedding feasts, from the touching tale of the marriage of two white rhinos to the gruesome stories of the final resting places of Oliver Cromwell’s head and Gallileo’s fingers, Hatches, Matches and Dispatches reveals the true facts of life!
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Jenny Paschall. Hatches, Matches and Despatches
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HATCHES. Confusion – 1 Science – 0
Eggcentric Tales
To Be or Not To Be
Legal Tales
Baby Facts
Womb for Improvement
Birthdays
What’s in a Name?
Bottoms Up
Quotable Quotes
Royal Babies – and Their Parents
Superstitions
Adoption
Be Fruitful and Multiply
Unnatural Selection
Designer Labels
Birth Tales
Famous Babies
Youngest …
… And Oldest
Curiosities
MATCHES. Courting Customs
I Thee Wed
Something Old, Something New
Young Love
Here Comes the Bride
’Til Death Us Do Part
Second Time Lucky
A Family Affair
For Richer for Poorer
Affairs to Remember
Notable Nuptials
I Do, Etc
Rites of Spring
It’s Never Too Late
Never the Twain Shall Meet … Again
Let Them Eat Cake
Words of Warning
Nippon Nuptials
Bewitched
Weddings from Hell
The Dating Game
Food of Love
Bottom Drawer
The Blushing Bride
You Are Cordially Invited …
Of Mice and Men
Alone at Last
Taking No Chance on Love
Gay Weddings
Love Hurts
Rings on Her Fingers
Groomed for Success
Flower Power
Government and Love
Forsaking All Others
Good, Old Fashioned Advice
Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
Statistics
DISPATCHES. Mummy Dearest
Fatal Statistics
Heads You Lose …
… Tails You Win
They Went Thataway
Grave Difficulties
Celestial Bodies
Bring Out Your Dead
Upper Crust
For a Few Dollars More …
R.I.P. – Finally
There’s a Body in the Trunk!
A Fine and Private Place
The Ultimate High
The Last Laugh
When Death Us Do Part
Grave Concerns
Gone but Not Forgotten
The Last Supper
The City of the Dead
Remains of the Day
One Last Thing
Ashes to …
Last Will and Testament
A Farewell to Arms – and Other Bits
Life After Death
Odds and Ends
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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TO CAMERON STEPHANIE LYON
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A MERICAN parents can make potty training fun by purchasing an audio book entitled ‘I’m on the Potty’. Set to familiar nursery rhyme tunes, they can sing along with ‘Diapers Falling on the Ground’ (Instead of ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’), and ‘I’m on the Potty’. Presumably, ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’ is not included, although we thought we might suggest ‘Spending Pennies From Heaven’ for the next edition.
‘The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.’ Clarence Darrow
