Once again, introducing Famous Hamsters in History (brought to you by State Farm Insurance)!

Brownie: Private Investigator

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Every Wednesday at RamseyEss.com, I highlight an entry from “The Wonderland of Knowledge,” an encyclopedia set for children from 1968 that I found on the street in Brooklyn, waiting for the garbage man. This week: “Grieg, Edvard Hagerup.”
Recently, the powers that be took national treasure Bea Arthur away from us. At the age of 86, [...]

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Once again, introducing Famous Hamsters in History (brought to you by State Farm Insurance)!
 

Mr. Wisk: Famous Artist

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Every Wednesday at RamseyEss.com, I highlight an entry from “The Wonderland of Knowledge,” an encyclopedia set for children from 1968 that I found on the street in Brooklyn, waiting for the garbage man. This week: “wind.”
There are many forces in this world that man has attempted to harness only to have the mighty hand of [...]

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Burglar: Give me your wallet, the keys to your car, your phone and your iPod.
Me: My phone is my iPod.
Burglar: What?
Me: I have an iPhone.
Burglar: So it’s a phone. Give it to me.
Me: Right, but it’s also a music player.
Burglar: How many songs does it hold?
Me: It’s 8 gigs.
Burglar: …
Me: A lot.
Burglar: What’s the camera [...]

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Burglar: Get out of the car.
Me: Please don’t shoot!
Burglar: Give me the keys!
Me: Yes. I’ll just reach over here for them…
Burglar: Oh my goodness! What’s going on?! The car… the horn is blasting and the lights are flashing on and off. It’s almost as if the car is “panicking.” I don’t want to have anything [...]

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War costs money.
After suffering through the Great Depression, our nation sobered up and sacrificed, jumping into action to preserve our freedom. The Wonderland of Knowledge understands this, and to demonstrate the sacrifice that our country, as well as many more across the globe, in their entry on “World War II,” they provided this chart to show [...]

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Clearly The Wonderland of Knowledge gets it right when it goes outside and looks at nature. It has crazy captions for every bird, tree or animal that personifies it in some odd way. If you cycle through those entries I’ve written, each one seems to end with me flabbergasted at how insane the next entry is.
Here’s what Wonderland had [...]

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Introducing Famous Hamsters in History (brought to you by State Farm Insurance)!

M.C. Hamster: Rap Talker

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The reason that The Wonderland of Knowledge went out of business may be it’s totally lack of unbiased reporting.  We first saw this a few weeks ago in the encyclopedia’s entry on “Hitler.”
And now Wonderland shows its true colors once again:
 

Come on, encyclopedia! First you call Hitler “a modern Caesar” and now lacrosse is “fast and exciting?” [...]

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