Firefly's World of FactsFrom previous editions published in the UK: "A mine of useful and useless information..." "An education in one volume." Who was the only person ever to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize? Who was the only female martyr and saint to sport a beard? Which country hosts the Cockroach Hall of Fame? Whose last words were, "I am still alive!"? These and thousands of other questions are answered in Firefly's World of Facts. Abundantly illustrated with color photographs, illustrations, maps and charts, every page is chock full of unexpected and astonishing lists, rankings, facts and juxtapositions. Firefly's World of Facts covers a rich diversity of topics and is arranged by subject:
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... Uranus All the satellites of Uranus are called after characters from either William Shakespeare's plays or Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock . Uranus has rings like those of Saturn , but they are visible only with a powerful ...
... Uranus . Edwin Hubble ( U.S. , 1889-1953 ) made important discoveries about galaxies . The Hubble Space Telescope ... Uranus 1800s 1801 First asteroid , Ceres , discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi 1846 Johann Galle and Urbain Le Verrier ...
... Uranus are discovered 1977 Voyager deep space probes are launched 1971 Mariner 9 spacecraft maps Mars 1980 Voyager 1 explores Saturn 1978 Space probes Pioneer 1 and 2 reach Venus 1985-89 Voyager 2 discovers moons of Uranus and Neptune ...