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• Figures of Speech (and other devices for spicing up your writing): Expressions used in a nonliteral way, such as when you say, "My lips are sealed," but you haven’t put glue over them. Includes hyperbole, which is exaggeration for effect, as in "I’ve told you a hundred times."
• Notable British Authors: From William Blake and William Golding to George Orwell and Virginia Woolf, relearn which authors wrote the most notable poems and tomes. You’ll also find fun facts about each author, including that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started writing fiction when his medical practice slowed and Jonathan Swift wrote his own obituary.
• International Authors: Homer’s not just the name of a character on The Simpsons. This 9th century Greek writer penned the great epics the Iliad and the Odyssey.
• Arithmetic: With division you divide a divisor into a dividend and the answer is a quotient. If there is anything left over, it is called a remainder. So 15 divided by 2 gives a quotient of 7 with a remainder of 1.
• Biology: The term biology comes from the Greek, meaning study of life; therefore, this field of learning concerns plants and animals and how the human body works. Give your central nervous system something to ponder, such as how a plant is structured or which elements make up the periodic table.
• Explorers: A quick rundown of people who discovered some of the regions of the world, like Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512, Italian), who discovered the mouth of the Amazon and the River Plate, which made him important enough to have a continent or two named after him.
• Geography: Read this section, and you won’t be able to deny that the Nile is a river in Egypt, or that Russia has five of the longest rivers in the world.
Sure to touch a chord with anyone old enough to have forgotten half of what they learned at school, here is a perfect gift for every perennial student. Make this and all of the Blackboard Booksô a permanent fixture on your eReader, and you’ll have instant access to searchable knowledge. Whether you need homework help or want to win that trivia game, this series is the trusted source for fun facts.
"If the questions all ring a bell, but answers don’t immediately leap to mind, you might want to browse through I Used to Know That—you’ll probably improve your game of Trivial Pursuit in the process." –Bookloons (Blog)
"This is an entertaining book for those interested in triviaÖGood for quizzing school-aged children or to just remember facts that haven’t been needed for a few years." –Book Visions (Blog)
I Used to Know That is a fun and interesting book with many tidbits of information that can be used for a quick reference guide or to brush up a little on the major subjects of Math, Literature, English, Science, History, Geography, and General Studies.
Authors of classic literature, fractions, geometry, algebra, the skeletal system, periodic table, U.S. presidents, countries and their capitals, and planets are just a few of the topics covered in this jammed packed little book.
This is an entertaining book for those interested in trivia. It would also be good for quizzing school-aged children or to just remember facts that haven't been needed for a few years.
12 out of 13 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I just got this book and I must say I smiled at myself many times remembering facts, dates, etc. from school! Those kind of things your kids ask you about when they do homework and make you go speechless! Or make you go: "oh, I used to know that...Let me think..."
Great fun!
Thanks for reading my review! Belenka
10 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I Used to Know That by Caroline Taggart is a fun reminder of all the things you used to know. Covering history, religion, literature, science and nature this book is full of those little things you learned throughout your schooling years, but perhaps forgot.
As a teacher I can easily see myself getting this book and using it in the classroom as an additional tool for both myself and my students.
If you like random facts, and knowing a little bit about various subjects that this may be the book for you!
While there is a lot in here that I might not use it was a fun refresher.
5 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 7, 2012
Wow, I graduated in '02 so it's been 10 years! This book is reminding me just how long it has been. Admittedly I did forget a lot, but I was one of those students who slept in class, crammed a bit before a test and passed...so that's not surprising lol. Everyone who wants a quick, interesting, and informative jolt to the brain should give this book a try.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Posted December 6, 2011
A miscellany of fun & facts that we used to know from school "I Used To Know That" will provide all the answers.A light-hearted & informative reminder of all things we learnt in school but have since become relegated to the backs of our minds.Lets face it :there are an awful lot of half rememdered things floating around in our heads.
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 13, 2012
I found a few errors in this book, which made me doubt the author's research. Read casually, but as with anything, don't use or repeat unless you verify information from other sources.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 6, 2012
Not even one woman artist in the artists list. Really? And the planets were under general instaed of science. It was fairly dry and random. Canadian provinces but not Mexican states. Why?
2 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Posted March 1, 2012
the topics jump wildly and the few topics I actually know about had some incomplete definitions, nothing actually wrong, just not complete
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted March 1, 2012
I caught a few errors (one pretty glaring one) in the first two chapters that made me doubt the veracity of everything that I thought was cool in the remaining chapters. That made this book very disappointing.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted February 22, 2012
This book is a disgrace. I have never seen so many misspelled words in one book. You should also know that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945 and the second atomic bombed was dropped on August 9, 1945 (not August 8, 1915 as reported in this book).
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Posted February 11, 2012
I thought it was going to be funny, but it was literally a book about all the crap that no one uses in real life, but they drill into your head in school. I have no need to identify a dangling participle, and it doesn't impact my daily life. Certainly don't want to relearn it!
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 22, 2012
This is a good book for anyone. Even people still in school!
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 8, 2012
It really is a great book. I bought the hard copty a few years ago and was so glad when i saw it on the free list. Now i can carry it with me!
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 7, 2012
Lots of little tid bits to go over and remember. Definitely more info than I remember learning! (Or totally forgot I learned?) I was disappointed when it was over so fast.
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 7, 2012
For a free book it impressed me somewhat. It did reteach many things, but I also learned new things. Its 109 pages of education.
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Posted January 7, 2012
Refresh my memory
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Posted January 6, 2012
Really enjoyed "i before e", so I could not resist this one. This one is jam packed again with lots of learning that we often times don't remember. Or shall I say, don't use? Knowledge is power.
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted December 6, 2011
neat way to refresh my memory of all the things I've learned
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted May 24, 2012
Will not regret having it
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Posted April 16, 2012
Interesting book but it felt to much like school.
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Overview
Rediscover:
• Figures of Speech (and other devices for spicing up your writing): Expressions used in a nonliteral way, such as when you say, "My lips are sealed," but you haven’t put glue over them. Includes hyperbole, which is exaggeration for effect, as in "I’ve told you a hundred times."
• Notable British Authors: From William Blake and William Golding to George Orwell and Virginia Woolf, relearn which authors wrote the most notable poems and tomes. You’ll also find fun facts about each author, including that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started writing fiction when his medical ...