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  American Idol - The Ultimate...

  Trivia Hub

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  AMERICAN IDOL 
  THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA AND CURIOUS FACTS COLLECTION 
    
  CREATED BY TRIVIA HUB 
    
  American Idol is a reality singing competition created by Simon Fuller, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show aims to discover unsigned singing talent, with the winner decided by American viewers. Contestants go through a series of auditions, including initial auditions with producers, and auditions before the judges. The selected contestants then perform in Hollywood, facing eliminations until the semi-finals, when public voting determines the outcome. The show features themes for each week's performances, often with celebrity mentors. From the semi-finals onward, the fate of the contestants is decided by public vote via phone, text, and online. The show was broadcast on Fox from 2002-2016, then moved to ABC in 2018. 
    
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  American Idol was based on the British show Pop Idol, which was in turn inspired by the New Zealand television singing competition Popstars. Television producer Nigel Lythgoe saw a version in Australia and helped bring it over to Britain.  
    
  In 2001, Simon Fuller, Simon Cowell, and TV producer Simon Jones attempted to sell the Pop Idol format to the United States, but the idea was initially met with poor responses from all the television networks. However, Rupert Murdoch, head of Fox's parent company, was later persuaded to buy the series by his daughter, Elisabeth, who had seen the British show.  
    
  One change was made to the American version because of the multiple time zones in the United States. An additional half-hour results show was added the day following the performance show because it was impractical for the country to vote in the same time period.

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  Best Wishes (And Other Things I...

  Becky Beasley

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  In the world of Gertrude Charmaine Beasley, exists the soft spoken black sheep daughter in law, Becky Beasley, married to the not-quite celebrated son Matthew. In order to shape Becky into the daughter-in-law she favors- Denise, Gertrude imparts her wisdom, suggestions, and thinly veiled insults through the passive-aggressive art form of letter writing.

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  The I'm Grand Mamual - A...

  PJ Kirby, Kevin Twomey

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  PJ Kirby and Kevin Twomey are two Mammy's boys from Cork who are always up for a skit.
  In The I'm Grand Mamual, they take well-worn expressions that their mams have always said, and share hilarious and heart-warming stories from their lives where these sayings have rung true – from schooldays to holidays, coming out to going out, and sustainable thrifting to end-of-night shifting.
  The I'm Grand Mamual is a big-sisterly companion for taking life in your stride. Mam might always know best – but Kevin and PJ will show you the rest!

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  Oddly Informative - Matters of...

  Tom Standage

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  The more we ponder, the odder the world can seem. 
   
   
   
  How do footballers get their shirt numbers? 
   
   
   
  Why does having daughters make couples more likely to divorce? 
   
   
   
  How do you move a horse from one country to another? 
   
   
   
  What counts as a journey into space? 
   
   
   
  The keen minds at the Economist contemplate all these questions and more in their quest for the globe's most extraordinary quandaries and conundrums, with bizarre facts and headscratchers that show the world is even stranger than we might have thought. From plant-based milk and supermoons to the next Dalai Lama and what really happened at the storming of the Bastille, this collection of the oddest and most mindboggling explanations will amaze and delight in equal measure.

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  A Maritime History of Scotland...

  Eric J. Graham

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  The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time.
  Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.

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  The Way of the Gardener - Lost...

  Lyndon Penner

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  Reverence takes on a new meaning in this original memoir of an avid gardener walking the Camino de Santiago.
  		 
  The Camino de Santiago has been a journey for pilgrims for more than 1,000 years, testing—to varying degrees—their spirit, faith, and physical endurance. Lyndon Penner’s attention lies elsewhere. A renowned gardener and lover of literature, he revels in the plants, trees, and flowers that tell the history of the people and ecology of northern Spain.
  		 
  Brimming with wry observations—of nature, himself, and other pilgrims on the road—The Way of the Gardener reveals the beauty and the darkness of the human condition while underscoring the deeply fascinating nature of nature itself. This textured work makes for perfect armchair—or garden—reading.

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