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Kick, Russ

 
9780972952941: Disinformation Book of Lists: Subversive Facts and Hidden Information in Rapid-Fire Format

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Can you name five military leaders who were transgendered?
Twelve cases of involuntary human experimentation by the U.S. government?
How about the four porn novels written by famous authors, 11 books left out of the Bible and over 50 side effects of NutraSweet that have been reported to the FDA?

In 1977, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace published The Book of Lists, causing an immediate sensation. Not only did it lead to three direct sequels (in 1980, 1983 and 1993), it also created a new genre. Soon, shelves were lined with The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists (1978), The Book of Sports Lists (1979) and Meredith's Book of Bible Lists (1980), among many others. Using this popular, enduring format, Russ Kick's Disinformation Book of Lists delves into the murkier aspects of politics, current events, business, history, science, art and literature, sex, drugs, death and more. Despite such unusual subject matter, this book presents hard, substantiated facts with full references.

Among the lists presented:

  • Innocent People Freed from Prison
  • Members of the Skull & Bones Secret Society at Yale
  • Drugs Pulled Off the
  • Market After They Killed Too Many People
  • Legal Substances that Will Get You High
  • Scenes that Were Cut from Movies
  • Raunchy Songs that Were Never Released
  • Military Officers, Government Officials, Astronauts, and Airline Personnel Who Say UFOs Are Real
  • Words and Phrases No Longer Allowed in Textbooks

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Russ Kick is the editor of the wildly successful three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals and the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know . His books have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed him "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described him as "a Renaissance man," and Utne Reader named him one of its "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He is creator of the popular website www.thememoryhole.com.


Russ Kick is the editor of the wildly successful three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals and the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know . His books have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed him "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described him as "a Renaissance man," and Utne Reader named him one of its "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." He is creator of the popular website www.thememoryhole.com.

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BOOK OF LISTS

SUBVERSIVE FACTS AND HIDDEN INFORMATION IN RAPID-FIRE FORMAT

By Russ Kick

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2004 Russ Kick
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9729529-4-1

Contents

Introduction,
About the Author,
Acknowledgments,
Drugs +,
39 Famous People Who Used Drugs,
42 Famous Drinkers of Vin Mariani,
20 Famous Drinkers of Absinthe,
A Dozen US Politicians Who Have Smoked Pot,
31 Products Containing Hard Drugs,
9 US Companies Allowed to Manufacture Illegal Drugs,
6 Illegal Substances That Occur Naturally in Our Bodies,
12 Songs About Drugs,
16 Legal Substances That Can Cause False Positives on Drug Tests,
12 Strange Drugs,
82 Brands of Heroin,
42+ Things That Have Been Made Out of Hemp,
10 of Chong's Bongs,
12 Ways to Alter Your Consciousness Without Drugs,
Crime and Punishment +,
13 Innocent People Who Went to Prison,
36 Botched Executions by Michael L. Radelet, Ph.D.,
13 Last Meals Requested by Executed Texas Prisoners,
8 Handmade Prison Objects,
3 States Where Cockfighting Is Legal,
14 Criminal Cops and Their "Punishments",
Feds and Spooks +,
25 Tips for Interrogating a Prisoner, From the CIA,
7 CIA Plots to Kill Castro,
34 CIA Cryptonyms,
5 Designations of Importance Used by the CIA,
10 CIA Front Companies,
111 People Who Are the Subjects of FBI Files,
6 Bands That Are the Subjects of FBI Files,
9 Things That Will Disqualify You From Employment with the FBI,
17 Questions You'll be Asked When Applying to Become an FBI Agent,
10 Oldest Still-Classified Documents at the National Archives,
War and Peace +,
23 Quotes Regarding the 2003 Invasion of Iraq,
12 Arguments Against the Police State at Guantanamo Bay,
13 Exotic Guns and Knives,
11 Materials That Have Been Made Into Guns,
20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Nuclear War by Alan F. Philips, M.D.,
13 Nuclear Tests That Spread Radiation into Civilian Areas,
46 Nuclear Tests by the US,
33 Names of Defense Department Internal Investigations,
13 Programs From DARPA's Defunct Information Awareness Office,
40 US Interventions in Latin America in the 1800s by Nick Mamatas,
Corporate Responsibility +,
36 Corporations That Ripped off the US Government,
9 Visitors Who Died at Disneyland by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson,
32 Cigarette Additives,
55 Companies Reportedly Doing Business With Enemy Nations,
Top 100 Corporations Laying off US Workers Due to NAFTA,
Sex +,
12 Erotic Works by Well-Known Writers,
12 Olde-Timey Porn Books,
52 Items from the Delta Collection of the Library of Congress,
12 Unorthodox Sex Practices,
6 Sex Acts That Are Illegal,
21 Natural Aphrodisiacs,
32 Famous People Involved in Triads,
23 Strange Genres of Porn Movie,
63 Gay Animals,
4 Unreleased Raunchy Songs,
153 Bizarre and Revealing Spam Subject Lines Leading to Sexually Oriented,
Messages by Paul Krassner,
11 Quotes About Sex,
Religion +,
5 "Family-Safe" Bibles,
18 Biblical Atrocities,
21 Biblical Contradictions,
8 Books That Didn't Make It Into the Bible,
18 Celebrities Involved With the Church of Scientology,
6 Celebrities Involved with the Church of Satan,
87+ People Mormons Have Baptized by Proxy,
815 People Killed by Religious Rituals and Objects,
12 Godly People,
9 Religious Quotes,
Movies, Music, and Pulp Fiction +,
16 Movies Banned in the US,
10 Unusual Forms and Genres of Music,
19 Profanely-Named Bands,
25 Iranian Rock Bands,
56 Pulp Novels,
Odds & Ends +,
15 Things That Cause or Mimic "Mental Illnesses",
11 Super Cures Your Doctor Won't Tell You About by Diane Petryk-Bloom,
11 Whistle-blowers,
23 Early Cases of Involuntary Human Experimentation,
8 Stupid Politician Quotes,
12 Amazon Reviews of Senator Bill Frist's Family History,
11 Quotes About Politics and Government,
10 Reasons Why Cars Suck by Mickey Z.,
3 Uncommon Sources of Power,
12 Things to do With Your Body After You're Dead,
19 Suicide Notes,
10 Top Magicians of the Twentieth Century by Richard Metzger,
17 Tarot Decks,
44 Substances That Soup up Your Brain,
24 Toxic Chemicals in Bill Moyers,
12 Acceptable Levels of Filth in Food,
7 Edible Flowers,
References,


CHAPTER 1

+Drugs


LIST 1

39 Famous People Who Used Drugs

Maybe the title of this list should be "39 Famous but Unexpected People Who TookDrugs," because the idea is not to document every well-known person who smokedpot or popped a pill. Instead, the list concerns famous figures whose usagemight be somewhat surprising to the average person (of course, no readers ofthis book are merely average, but you know what I mean!). We won't look atpeople who were expected to do drugs, which means you won't read about anybodyfrom the Beat movement or the Counterculture, nor any rock or jazz musicians.Instead, we'll focus on scientists, old-school literary giants, Nobel laureates,legendary actors, physicians (and a nurse), etc. These are the people youprobably read about in school or college, but you didn't hear about theirfondness for opium, LSD, hash, laughing gas, and other such substances.


1

Mathematician Ralph Abraham—the primary developer of chaos theory—said in a 1991interview:

In the 1960s a lot of people on the frontiers of math experimented withpsychedelic substances. There was a brief and extremely creative kiss betweenthe community of hippies and top mathematicians. I know this because I was apurveyor of psychedelics to the mathematical community.

To be creative in mathematics you have to start from a point of total oblivion.Basically, math is revealed in a totally unconscious process in which one iscompletely ignorant of the social climate. And mathematical advance has alwaysbeen the motor behind the advancement of consciousness.


2

Social reformer, founder of Hull House, and Nobel laureate Jane Addams wrotethat she and some friends took opium once while in seminary-college. "Wesolemnly consumed small white powders at intervals during the entire longholiday, but no mental reorientation took place, and the suspense and excitementdid not even permit us to grow sleepy."


3

Little woman Louisa May Alcott was addicted to morphine.


4

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and philosopher, took opium.


5

Honoré de Balzac, one of France's literary giants, smoked hash at least once.


6

Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning suffered from numerous physicalmaladies and was no stranger to the use of opiates. When she and Robert Browningbecame involved, she was heavily addicted to laudanum (a tincture of opium inalcohol), morphine, and her own special brew, a mixture of morphine and ether.With his help, she was able to gradually reduce her intake, but because of anabscess on her lung, her doctor increased her dosage of morphine, which isprobably what killed her. Thus, much of Elizabeth's verse—including all of herimmortal love poems to Robert—were written while opium coursed through herveins.


7

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic poet, gave...

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