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Title: |
Weird & Wacky Washington Places |
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| By (author): |
Bree Coven Brown, Lisa Wojna |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897278470 : 9781897278475 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
209.55x133.35x13.21mm |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Weight: |
.208 Kg. |
| Published: |
Blue Bike Books - May 2008 |
| List Price: |
14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Trivia & quiz question books |
| This book explores Washington's truly peculiar and odd placesā natural and supernatural phenomena, bizarre roadside attractions and places whose stories must be experienced to be believed: ā ¢ A full-scale replica of England's Stonehenge on a hill overlooking Maryville was built to commemorate soldiers killed in World War I ā ¢ Seattle's famed Ye Olde Curiosity Shop boasts shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf and a mermaid ā ¢ In Skamania County, it is a crime to shoot or slay Bigfoot, and in Metropolitan King County, Sasquatch is a protected species ā ¢ The town of Conconully, population 200, hosts the Testicle Festival and Cowboy Caviar Fete contest in homage to the prairie cowboy delicacy of bull testicles ā ¢ A self-kicking machine at Rockport Country Store gives curious visitors a kick in the pantsā an unlikely way to attract customers ā ¢ A 10-foot lizard holding a cross decorates the church of God-Zillah in Zillah, WA, that adopted Godzilla as its mascot and says, ā We got him saved.ā ā ¢ During the Omak Stampede and World Famous Suicide Race, Native American riders from the nearby reservation, race their horses down a nearly vertical 210-foot slope and through the icy Okanogan River. And so much moreā ¦ |
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