{"product_id":"romans-were-known-for-their-brian-e-strayer-ph-d-9781502325136","title":"Romans Were Known For Their Aquaducks: And Other Gems of Wit \u0026 Wisdom in Western Civilization","description":"\"The Pharisees showed off their goodness by praying in synonyms\" . . . \"The fourteenth century was an unpleasant era to be alive in, much less dead in\" . . . \"The Vaccuum is a large empty space where the popes live in Rome\" . . .\u003cp\u003e This is the history you never learned in school (or maybe you did).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Art Linkletter once noted that small children often mix fantasy and reality, making their views of everyday life wildly askew. But when the Baby Boomers and Generation Xers entered college, they were still mixing fantasy and reality, as their history and English essays demonstrated in a fractured, fictionalized, hilarious interpretation of events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here are gems uncut and unpolished, straight from the pens of freshmen and sophomores trying desperately to make some sense out of the past. If these bloopers prove nothing else, they demonstrate that Art Linkletter's \"little kids\" \u003ci\u003estill\u003c\/i\u003e say \"the darndest things\" when faced with college history exams . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian E. Strayer Ph. D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1502325136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781502325136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian E. Strayer Ph. D.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935210864895,"sku":"9781502325136","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e40b9155-edb4-4277-aeb0-8ee03c657857.jpg?v=1681418500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/romans-were-known-for-their-brian-e-strayer-ph-d-9781502325136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}