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Bevat de naam: Bill O'Neill

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The Great Book of Tennis (2018) 5 exemplaren
The Great Book of Hawaii (2019) 5 exemplaren
The Freedom of the Ignored (2017) 3 exemplaren
The Great Book of Soccer (2018) 3 exemplaren

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In this book, you will learn about how things we take for granted now completely revolutionized the world back then. Inventions like paper, the steam engine, the printing press, electricity and, of course the computer! Each chapter covers one of the amazing inventions, giving the history leading up to the invention, what people were doing before the invention appeared on the scene, the story behind it, and the impact it had on the world.
 
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BLTSbraille | Aug 17, 2023 |
My son has this book and loved it! It's realistic fiction at it's best.
 
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trm0930- | Jul 6, 2022 |
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If you’ve never read one of this author GREAT STATE books, then you’ll be in for a treat. Like the rest of the books in this series Alaska, California, Florida, New York, Ohio and Texas, this book is chuck of state trivia, trivia which runs the gamut from just being amazing to being weird or depressing, all of which makes this book quite interesting. But unlike these books, since Hawaii had once been a possession of the US, it had its own language, Hawaiian language words are scattered all through the pages of this book.

The author, Bill O’Neill, in this book has copied the same format he’s successfully used in the rest of the books in this series.

In each of the six chapters this book contains:
1- Hawaii’s History
2- Hawaii’s Pop Culture
3- Hawaii’s Attractions
4- Hawaii’s Inventions, Ideas and More
5- Hawaii’s Biggest Haunts, Supernatural and Other Weird Facts
6- Hawaii’s Sports
Mr. O’Neill begins each chapter by taking an item regarding its topic and gives his readers a brief, yet informative description of about it, this is followed by some random facts, which is then culminated by his giving some questions related to the information which the chapter has just given, naturally the answers are given as well.

While some of the facts in this book answer the question raised the questions the author wrote about in the description for the book; others might answers a question you might have wanted to know about for a long time:

• How did Hawaii get its name?
• Why is it called the Aloha State?
• Why was it once called “The Kingdom of Hawaii”?
• Which sport was invented in Hawaii?
• Which movies have been filmed in the state?
• What legends from the Hawaiian culture haunt the state?
• What’s Hawaii’s most famous unsolved mystery?

All in all, once again this book is a wonderful compendium of informational trivia, from the simplistic to the interesting to the amazing, trivia which should be quite interesting to anyone who reads it. So, in the end, with all things consider, for wanting to share the information he’s gathered with everyone who reads it, I’m happy to give Mr. O’Neill the 5 STARS he’s gotten from this reviewer.
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MyPenNameOnly | Jul 1, 2022 |

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