The Second Book of General Ignorance (43 page)

faeces, contamination of bar foods by
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,
2

Falbo, Clement
1

Faraday, Michael
1

fear, effect of on heart rate
1

Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)
1

Fehr, Ernst
1

Feingold, Benjamin
1

Ferguson, Niall
1

fertilisers
1

film censorship
1

finches
1
,
2
,
3

finger joints
1

Finland/Finns
1
,
2

firefighters, safety measures introduced
1

firemen’s poles
1

First World War
1
,
2

ending of
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fish

and Lent
1

survival of in polar regions
1

term
1

ugly
1

fishermen, and European law
1

Fitzroy, Robert
1

fizzy drinks
1

flags

burning of American
1

flying from cars
1

flavour
1

fleas
1

Fleming, Alexander
1

flies
1

flight path, living under
1

flintknappers
1

Folies Bérgeres
1

follicle mites
1

food, effect of on behaviour
1

Food and Drug Administration
1

football
1

football club, oldest
1

forced labour
1

forests, finding north in
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France

and cheese
1

military success of
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national anthem
1

toilet hygiene
1

Francis of Assisi, St
1

Franco, Generalissimo Francisco
1

Frankenstein
1

Frankenstein
(film)
1

Franklin, Benjamin
1
,
2
,
3

Franklin, Rosalind
1

Frithiof’s Saga
1

Fuller, Richard Buckminster
1

fullerite
1

fungi, and Beatrix Potter
1

‘funny bone’, banging
1

fur, loss of in humans
1

fur trade
1

G20
1

Gabes, Gulf of
1

Galapagos
1

Galbraith, John Kenneth
1

Galea, Professor Ed
1

Galileo
1
,
2

Gallaudet College
1

Gallopin’ Gaucho, The
1

gametes
1

Garland, Judy
1

Gatsonides, Maurice
1
,
2

Gauss, Karl Friedrich
1

gavels
1
,
2

Genghis Khan
1

George IV, King
1

ger
1

Gerard, John
1

German Revolution (1918)
1

Germany/Germans

nicknames for
1

and Second World War
1

‘sink on sight’ policy during First World War
1

Gestring, Marjorie
1

Gibson, E.J.
1

Giesbrecht, Professor Gordon
1
,
2

Gilbert, Avery
1

Gillray, James
1

glass
1
,
2

hardness of
1

impact of on Western culture
1

molecular structure
1

glass balls
1

‘glassy water’
1

gliders
1

Glycaemic Index
1

Godwin-Austen, Henry
1

gold coins
1

gold paint, covering a body with
1

golden ratio
1

Goldfinger
1

Gorbachev, Mikhail
1

Gore, Al
1

Gothic architecture
1

gothic novel
1

Goths
1
,
2
,
3

Gould, Stephen Jay
1

Goulue, La
1

Grahame, Alistair
1

Grahame, Kenneth
1

graphite
1

graphology
1

gravity
1

Great Depression
1

Great Fire of London
1

Great Plague (1665–6)
1

Great Trigonometric Survey of India
1
,
2

Greece, ancient
1
,
2

Greek language
1

‘green flash’
1

greenhouse effect
1

Greenland
1

Gregory the Great, Pope
1

Groningen (Netherlands)
1

Guildford
1

Gypsies
1

hair

and Romans
1

yak’s
1

hairnets, fishermen’s
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,
2

Halai’b Triangle
1

Haldane, J.B.S.
1

Halobacteria
1

Hamilton, Margaret
1

Hampson, Frank
1
,
2

handwriting
1

Hannibal
1

Hansen, Gerhard Armauer
1

Happy Planet Index (2009)
1

hardness, measuring of
1

Harold Godwinson
1

Harold, King
1
,
2

harpoons
1

Harrington, John Walker
1

Hastings, Battle of
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,
2

Hays Code
1

head

losing body heat from
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weight of
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heart

donating of by living person
1

first transplant
1

restarting a stopped
1

heart rate

effect of fear on
1

slowing down
1

heart surgery
1

heartbeats
1

heights, fear of
1

Heine, Heinrich
1

helical staircases
1

Helmholtz square
1

Henry I, King
1

Henry IV, King
1

Henry VI, King
1
,
2
,
3

Henry VII, King
1

Henry VIII, King
1
,
2
,
3

hernia
1

Herodotus
1

heroin
1

Hickey, John
1

Hill, Sir Rowland
1

Himmler, Heinrich
1

Hinduism
1
,
2

Hitchcock, Alfred
1

Hitler, Adolf
1
,
2
,
3

Hockney, David
1

Holland
1

homing pigeons
1

homosexuality, and age of consent
1

Honduras, oranges in
1

Honey badger
1

honeymoon rhinitis
1

hormones
1

horned helmets
1

horns

animals with
1

humans growing
1

horseshoe crab
1

House, Clinton
1

houses, smallest
1

Howard, Lord
1
,
2

Hubbard, Paul
1

Huesman, Tony
1

humans

comparison with chimpanzees
1

first record of drinking alcohol
1

growing horns
1

loss of fur
1

and Neanderthals
1

hundred
1

Hundred Years War
1
,
2
,
3

Huns
1
,
2

hurricanes
1

huskies
1

Huxley, T.H.
1

Huygens, Christiaan
1

hyperactivity
1

hypothalamus
1

hypothermia
1

hypsometry
1