Curiosities and wonders
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Narrower terms:- Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1800
- Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1900
- Curiosities and wonders -- Juvenile literature
- Curiosities and wonders -- Periodicals
- Crop circles
- Disasters
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Literary curiosa
- Monsters
- Seven Wonders of the World
- Unidentified flying objects
- World records
- Enigmas
- Facts, Miscellaneous
- Miscellaneous facts
- Oddities
- Trivia
- Wonders
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Wild Talents (from the 1941 Thayer 1-volume edition; originally published 1933), by Charles Fort (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)- The Burning of Troy, and Other Works in Quantavolution, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected From the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature (third edition; London: C. Tilt, 1831)
- Curiosities of Olden Times (London: J. T. Hayes; New York: Pott and Amery, 1869), by S. Baring-Gould
- Curiosities of Olden Times (revised and enlarged edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1896), by S. Baring-Gould
- Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising Whatever is Marvellous and Rare, Curious, Eccentric and Extraordinary in All Ages and Nations (London et al.: G. Routledge And Sons, 1894), ed. by E. F. King
- Things Not Generally Known, Familiarly Explained: A Book for Old and Young (second series; London: Kent and Co., 1859), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wild Talents, by Charles Fort (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
- De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Launcelot D. Dowdall
- The Interview: A Companion Volume to "Enquire Within Upon Everything" (18th thousand; London: Houlston and Wright, 1857), by Robert Kemp Philp (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mere Nature Delineated, or, A Body Without a Soul: Being Observations Upon the Young Forester Lately Brought to Town from Germany, With Suitable Applications; Also, A Brief Dissertation Upon the Usefulness and Necessity of Fools, Whether Political or Natural (London: Printed for T. Warner, 1726), by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs (2 volumes in 1, in French, first volume title page missing; Paris: I. de Bordeaux, 1571), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau, contrib. by Claude de Tesserant and François de Belleforest (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs, Grecz et Latins, Sacrez et Prophanes (in French; Paris: I. Longis and Robert le Magnier, 1561), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau
- The Spanish Mandevile of Miracles: or, The Garden of Curious Flowers, Wherin Are Handled Sundry Points of Humanity, Philosophy, Divinitie, and Geography, Beautified With Many Strange and Pleasant Histories (London: Printed by I. R. for E. Matts, 1600), by Antonio de Torquemada, contrib. by Ferdinand Walker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Phlegontis Tralliani Opuscula Graece et Latine (second edition, in Latin and Greek; Halle: Hendel, 1822), by Phlegon of Tralles, ed. by Johann Georg Friedrich Franz and Friedrich Jakob Bast, contrib. by Johannes van Meurs and Wilhelm Xylander (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs (2 volumes in 1, in French, first volume title page missing; Paris: I. de Bordeaux, 1571), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau, contrib. by Claude de Tesserant and François de Belleforest (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs, Grecz et Latins, Sacrez et Prophanes (in French; Paris: I. Longis and Robert le Magnier, 1561), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau
- The Wonders of the Little World: or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson et al., 1806), by Nathaniel Wanley, ed. by William Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)
- Weekly World News (partial serial archives)
- The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine (full serial archives)
- Relationes Curiosae, ed. by Eberhard Werner Happel (full serial archives)
- Skeptics UFO Newsletter (1989-2003), by Philip J. Klass (partial serial archives)
- Ancient Astronauts (7 issues online, published 1975-1977) (partial serial archives)
- Project Blue Book (selected declassified microfilm reels, with supplementary material; downloads might not work but page by page browsing view seems to work), by United States (partial serial archives)
- The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News Out of Hartford-Shire (reprint; ca. 1815) (multiple formats at Google)
- The Mowing Devil: or, Strange News Out of Hartfordshire, 1678; With an Introductory Setting Forth Other Examples of Judgments on Impiety and False Swearing (Hertfordshire Folk Lore #14; 1913), ed. by W. B. Gerish (page images at HathiTrust (with other titles in this series); US access only)
- Strange Newes, Out of Hartford-Shire and Kent (claimed original publication is London: Printed for R. G., 1679; this copy apparently printed later) (multiple formats at Google)
- Tragic Story of America's Greatest Disaster: Tornado, Flood and Fire in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and Mississippi Valley (Chicago: J. S. Ziegler, c1913), by Marshall Everett (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- Chaos and Creation: An Introduction to Quantavolution in Human and Natural History, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
- The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity, by Harun Yahya (illustrated HTML at harunyahya.com)
- The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Doom of London, by Fred M. White, illust. by Warwick Goble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
- In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Unknown Immortals in the Northern City of Success (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Herbert Moore Pim
- Quizzism, and its Key: Quirks and Quibbles From Queer Quarters (sixth edition, 1886), by Albert P. Southwick (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Mythical Monsters (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Charles Gould
- Natural History Lore and Legend (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1895), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at Google; US access only)
- The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Edgar James Banks
- The Biographical Writings and Letters of Venerable Bede (London: J. Bohn, 1845), by the Venerable Bede, ed. by James Bohn, trans. by J. A. Giles, contrib. by Alcuin (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects (1968), by United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics (HTML with commentary at ncas.org)
- The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), by Donald H. Menzel and Lyle Gifford Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Outer Space to You (Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, c1959), by Howard Menger (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1956), by Edward J. Ruppelt
- The Secret of the Saucers (Amherst, WI: Amherst Press, 1955), by Orfeo M. Angelucci, ed. by Ray Palmer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Flying Saucers Are Real (New York: Fawcett Publications, 1950), by Donald E. Keyhoe
- Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, by Edward U. Condon and University of Colorado, ed. by Daniel S. Gillmor (HTML at ncas.org)
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