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Arizona Trivia: Weird, Wacky and Wild

Contributor(s): Soderberg, Paul (Author), Wojna, Lisa (Author)

ISBN: 9781897278499

Publisher: Blue Bike Books

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Pub Date: August 1, 2008

Dewey: 979.1

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.41" H x 8.24" L x 5.38" W ( 0.52 lbs) 240 pages

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Description: Arizona is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters: * Mesa's founder was the great-grandfather of Fay Wray, star of King Kong (1933) * The place to go for great burgers in Kayenta is also the place to learn about the Navajo Code Talkers * Phoenix native Joan Ganz Cooney created Sesame Street * Irving Berlin wrote the greatest Christmas song of all time--''White Christmas''--while sitting beside a swimming pool in Phoenix * One of the seven species of horned lizards found in Arizona is the horny toad, which squirts blood from its eyes when frightened * Chandler holds an annual Ostrich Festival--one of the Top 10 Unique Festivals in the United States * The only two communities in the U.S. where postal workers still deliver mail by mule are both in the Grand Canyon--in Havasu Falls, where the Havasupai tribe has lived for 800 years, and in Phantom Ranch, a resort village * The ''Jojo's'' mentioned in the Beatles' song ''Get Back'' was a popular bar in Tucson * And more.

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