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Why is it hotter at the equator? What is a vacuum? What is latitude and longitude? How do you tell the age of a tree? [tree rings] How do we measure the earth's circumference? Why does a day have 24 hours? How far away are the stars? Why is the sky blue? Why can't we see the other side of the moon? What causes tides? How do ships sail against the wind? Where does cork come from? What causes the wind? What is chalk? -- Making a battery -- How to play stickball -- Fossils -- Building a treehouse -- The rules of soccer -- Dinosaurs -- Making a bow and arrow -- Understanding grammar: Nouns, Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, articles, prepositions, interjections, sentences, subject and object, nominative and accusative, who and whom, clauses and phrases, tenses -- Table football -- Fishing -- Timers and tripwires -- Baseballs most valuable players -- Famous battles: Thermopylae, Cannae, Caesar's invasions of Britain, Hastings, Crecy, Waterloo, Balaclava, Rorke's Drift, The Somme, Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, Gettysburg. 505 0 $a The rules of Rugby Union and Rugby League -- Spies: codes and ciphers -- U.S. Naval flag codes -- Making crystals -- Extraordinary stories: Scott and the Antarctic ; The Wright Brothers ; Touching the Void ; Douglas Bader ; Robert the Bruce -- Making a go-cart -- Insects and spiders -- Juggling -- Astronomy -- Making a paper hat, boat, and water bomb -- Navajo Code Talker's Dictionary -- Girls -- Marbling paper [marbled paper] -- Cloud formations -- First aid -- The 50 states -- Map of the United States -- Mountains of the United States -- Making cloth fireproof -- Building a workbench -- Pocket light -- Five pen-and-paper games -- The golden age of piracy [pirates] -- A simple electromagnet -- Secret inks -- Sampling Shakespeare -- Grinding an italic nib -- Navigation -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Moon -- Skipping stones -- Pinhole projector -- Charting the universe -- Dog tricks -- Wrapping a package in brown paper and string -- Star maps: what you see when you look up -- Making a periscope -- Seven poems every boy should know -- Coin tricks -- Light -- Latin phrases every boy should know -- How to play poker -- Marbles -- A brief history of artillery -- The origin of words -- The solar system -- The Ten Commandments -- Common trees -- Chess -- Hunting and cooking a rabbit -- Tanning a skin -- Timeline of early American history -- Growing sunflowers -- Role-playing games -- Seven modern wonders of the world -- Books every boy should read -- Standard and metric measurements -- Dangerous Book for Boys badges. 520 $a For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun--building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.--From publisher description. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 $a Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. 650 0 $a Amusements. 650 0 $a Recreation. 650 0 $a Boys $v Miscellanea. 650 1 $a Amusements. 650 1 $a Recreation. 650 1 $a Boys $v Miscellanea. 650 7 $a Amusements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00808105 650 7 $a Boys. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837358 650 7 $a Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00950943 650 7 $a Recreation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091713 650 7 $a Handbooks, manuals, etc. $2 sears 650 7 $a Amusements. $2 sears 650 7 $a Recreation. $2 sears 650 7 $a Boys $v Miscellanea. $2 sears 655 4 $a Children's nonfiction. $5 NZ-WeK 655 7 $a Handbooks and manuals. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423877 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921748 655 7 $a Miscellanea. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423854 655 7 $a Trivia and miscellanea. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Handbooks and manuals. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Iggulden, Hal. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Iggulden, Conn. $t Dangerous book for boys. $b 1st U.S. ed. $d New York : Collins, ©2007 $w (OCoLC)653055195 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2006047000-b.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2006047000-d.html 941 $a 13 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525035718.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409051142.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305024325.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718084047.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210011231.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909015128.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215030147.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323012910.0 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20210205011058.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528035453.0 952 $l VMPC334 $d 20200211013120.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107060343.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006041035.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=28BBEEB84DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search