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Are you the type of person who stays up nights wondering how they get the paper tag into Hershey's Kisses? Or why portholes are round?

Even if you don't lose sleep over such matters, you have to admit that such questions are, well, worthy of consideration.

Here, from David Feldman, creator of the Imponderables® series, are the latest questions on the minds of his devoted readers and fans. No question from his readers is too small or obscure for Feldman to tackle. From the return of red M&Ms (they are back, if you've missed it) to new-car smell, the answers to life's little mysteries are dissected in these pages.

Although it's all done in great fun, there is also an educational edge to the answers, as Feldman ferrets out top experts in diverse fields to come up with his entertaining answers. And their answers may surprise you—from the detailed physics involved in why cans of Diet Coke float but regular Coke doesn't, all the way to why they put crinkly paper into pairs of men's socks (but only one sock, not both).

Complete with drawings by longtime Imponderables® illustrator Kassie Schwan, and a special section updating answers to questions in previous books in the series, this eleventh book of Imponderables® is sure to entertain the thousands of Feldman fans who have purchased over 2 million copies to date. Prepare to be delighted!

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Title of ebook: Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?
ISBN: 9780061205552
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Internet download file size: 4213 kb
Released online for download: 09-19-2006
Author of eBook: Feldman, David,

Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?


Chapter One

Why Did Pirates Love Parrots?

Our image of the colorful parrot astride the peg-legged, patch-eyed pirate might come from cartoons and comic strips, but the inspiration was surely Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, published in 1883. The beloved pet of cook Long John Silver, the parrot squawks "Pieces of eight!" with annoying regularity, and becomes the "watchbird" for the pirates after the miscreants take over the treasure hunters' fort on the island.

Stevenson admitted that he borrowed the idea of the parrot from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. After being stranded on the island, Crusoe knocks a young parrot out of a tree. He teaches the bird to speak its own name ("Poll"), "the first word I ever heard spoken in the island by any mouth but my own."

But did pirates really carry parrots on their ships in real life? The evidence suggests yes. Kenneth J. Kinkor, director of project research at the Expedition Whydah Sea-Lab and Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, told Imponderables that "Many pirates kept parrots and other ... read full excerpt from Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? ebook



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