A humor columnist presents a series of "facts" about Arizona, including the name of the artist that painted the Painted Desert, where to find the moonshine saguaro, and the exact wording of Arizona's new Truth-in-Lying Law.

Introduces statistics, emblems, notable cities, products, and other facts about the fifty states, United States territories, and Washington, D.C.

Provides insights into some of the mystifying historical events that took place in America.

Trimble is a cowboy singer, humorist, and storyteller, as well as the state's historian. He recaps highlights and happenings in Arizona during the last century, from train robberies to astronaut training, in chapters organized by decade.

"Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves...

Provides assorted facts about each of the fifty states in question and answer format.

This book provides answers that clearly explain canine actions and reactions, and then helps readers with suggestions for modifying unacceptable behavior. For every canine misdeed, there is a human counter-response to fix the problem. Read about both sides of the story in these friendly questions and answers, taken from real-life situations with real dogs. There is hardly a behavior that will not have dog lovers nodding their heads in recognition....