Table of Contents

EccentricsStories of Unusual and Remarkable PeopleSnowflake Bentley: A Fascination with Snow, Blark Bart: Gentle Bandit, George Kaufman: Keeping Fit, Doris Duke: Poor Little Rich Girl, Johnny Appleseed: Planting the Wilderness, Diamond Jim Brady: Man with the Boundless Appetite, Lillie Hitchcock Coit: Chasing Fire Engines, Bill Veeck: Entertaining the Fans, Gertrude Lintz: How "Human" are Apes?, Hetty Green: Money was Everything, Alan Abel: Professional Prankster, Ludwig II: The Dream King, Salvador Dali: A Question of Reality, Sun Ra: Music from Outer Space, Norton I: Emperor of the United States, Carry Nation: Fighting the "Hellish Poison", Vincent van Gogh: Tragic Genius, Amanda Feilding: Woman with a Hole in Her Head, Ferdinand Demara: The Great Imposter, Dennis Rodman: Bad as He Wants to Be, and Imelda Marcos: World's Greatest Shopper

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