num_pages: 835
description: An entertaining, colorful overview of the past century offers believe-it-or-not stories, unusual facts, dubious achievements, and other offbeat trivia, presented in more than seven hundred short entries. 50,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century: The Definitive Compendium of Astonishing Events, Amazing People, and Strange-But-True Facts
titlecomplete: The People's Almanac Presents the Twentieth Century: The Definitive Compendium of Astonishing Events, Amazing People, and Strange-But-True Facts
genres: Trivia, History, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Little Brown & Co