Milton's teeth & Ovid's umbrella
Subtitle: curiouser and curiouser adventures in history
By: Michael Olmert.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: History -- Miscellanea.; Curiosities and wonders.
Other titles: Milton's teeth and Ovid's umbrella
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 256).
Some of the essays originally appeared in earlier versions in the column Points of origin, published in the Smithsonian, 1981-1988.
"A Touchstone book."
Table of contents: title: Life : death, taxes, graffiti, hair, toothbrushes, teeth, hands; title: Leisure : football, running, betting, the sporting chance, baseball talk, horse racing, lotteries, chess, cards, cowboys; title: Celebrations : marriage, birth, vacation, hazing, graduation, April Fool's Day; title: Implements & symbols : tools, lawns, trees, keys, pets, place-names, dibs!, umbrellas.