The Internet's legendary "Answer Whiz," Bill McLain was Xerox Corporation's official Webmaster. Responsible for the e-mails sent to the company Website, McLain and his team responded to an astounding 750-1,000 questions daily. While most of the e-mails he received were Xerox-related, every day scores of curious fact-seekers wrote with questions ranging from the bizarre to the useful to the downright comical. McLain collected the most memorable of these questions, along with his equally memorable answers, in What Makes Flamingoes Pink? and in its predecessor, Do Fish Drink Water? He lives in Santa Clara, California.
McLain's book is chock-full of trivia and factoids on a plethora of subjects, including animals, crime, food, disasters, inventions, entertainment, science, and sports. It's like Google in a book. Great fun to browse. Neeley provides a hard-core portrait of -Quanah Parker, the last Commanche chief to follow the traditional nomadic life, who fought the encroaching settlers initially with bloody attacks and later with diplomacy. Two more solid bargain titles from Castle. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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