The Ladies' Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia BookMango Media, 01.03.2010 - 312 Seiten “Fun and fancy for the fair sex . . . rife with facts, rumors, stories, quotations and advice.” —Publishers Weekly What percentage of women would rather shop than have sex? What was Lauren Bacall’s real name? What tricks do supermarkets use to get us to spend more money? Who were the first two African American actresses nominated for Academy Awards in the same year for the same category? How many hours do the men in our lives spend on housework and childcare? What did Mae West say upon the death of Marilyn Monroe? From female celebrities to glass ceiling breakers and historical heroines, this entertaining resource is packed with fun facts, surprising statistics, and witty quips that make for great reading—in any room. |
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... lived around the first century A.D., once declared, “Women are always buying something.” Why do women love to shop? Anthropologists tell us that it's a leftover habit from our huntergatherer days. Since humans first roamed the Earth ...
... lived around the first century A.D., once declared, “Women are always buying something.” Why do women love to shop? Anthropologists tell us that it's a leftover habit from our huntergatherer days. Since humans first roamed the Earth ...
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... lived in fifteenth-century Florence, where it was illegal for women of the lower class to wear buttons of certain shapes and substances. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, is the only president's daughter to have a ...
... lived in fifteenth-century Florence, where it was illegal for women of the lower class to wear buttons of certain shapes and substances. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, is the only president's daughter to have a ...
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... lived before the age of lipstick, so she colored her lips with pomegranate seeds. Beauty standards change. In fifth-century China, women used to polish their teeth with a black dye made from the skin of eggplant. (Black was beautiful, I ...
... lived before the age of lipstick, so she colored her lips with pomegranate seeds. Beauty standards change. In fifth-century China, women used to polish their teeth with a black dye made from the skin of eggplant. (Black was beautiful, I ...
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... lived in the early 1770s . She was commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa to make over the wardrobe of her daughter , Marie Antoinette , whose fashion sense , thought Maman , wasn't up to snuff . Bertin became the French queen's chief ...
... lived in the early 1770s . She was commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa to make over the wardrobe of her daughter , Marie Antoinette , whose fashion sense , thought Maman , wasn't up to snuff . Bertin became the French queen's chief ...
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... lived around A.D. 650 and whose birth name was Etherelda. When she was dying of a tumor in her neck, she proclaimed it was a punishment from God for wearing necklaces in her youth. During the Middle Ages, the English would hold a ...
... lived around A.D. 650 and whose birth name was Etherelda. When she was dying of a tumor in her neck, she proclaimed it was a punishment from God for wearing necklaces in her youth. During the Middle Ages, the English would hold a ...
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