Dictionary of Misinformation: The Book to Set the Record Straight - Tom Burnam

A remarkable book that contains enough information to help you win bets the rest of your life: -- The bagpipe was not a Scottish invention-- Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball at Cooperstown -- or anywhere else in America-- London's Big Ben is neither a clock nor a tower-- Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, and the boat he built was not called the Clermont-- Cleopatra was not Egyptian-- Lizzie Borden was acquitted-- Scores of persons had flown nonstop across the Atlantic before Lindbergh-- No witches were burned at Salem-- Edison did not invent the light bulb-- Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson"-- Mark Twain was not born in Hannibal, Missouri-- And, alas, there is no such thing as an aphrodisiacBurnam, Tom is the author of 'Dictionary of Misinformation: The Book to Set the Record Straight - Tom Burnam' with ISBN 9780060913151 and ISBN 0060913150.