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      ALSO BY DOUG LENNOX

       Now You Know

      ISBN 1-55002-461-2 • $19.99, £10.99

       Now You Know More

      ISBN -1-55002-530-9 • $19.99, £10.99

       Now You Know Almost Everything

      ISBN 1-55002-575-9 •$19.99, £10.99

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       The Book of Answers

       Doug Lennox

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      Copyright © Magnetawan Communications Inc., 2006

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Editor: Michael Carroll

      Illustrations: Julia Bell

      Design: Jennifer Scott

      Printer: Transcontinental

       Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Lennox, Doug

      Now you know : the book of answers / Doug Lennox.

      Vol. 2 has title: Now you know more : the book of answers; v. 3

      has title: Now you know almost everything.

      ISBN 1-55002-461-2 (v. 1).--ISBN 1-55002-530-9 (v. 2)

      ISBN 1-55002-575-9 (v. 3).--ISBN 1-55002-648-8 (v. 4)

      1. Questions and answers. 2. Curiosities and wonders. I. Title. II. Title: Now you know more. III. Title: Now you know almost everything.

      AG195.L45 2003 031.02 C2003-903531-X

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

       J. Kirk Howard, President

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       This book is dedicated to my aunt, Annie Lennox.

       Among adults, there is no such thing as the truth, only someone’s idea of the truth. Truth is the exclusive dominion of children and animals.

       D.L.

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