Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Draco

Milo of Croton

Aeschylus

Sigurd the Mighty

George Plantagenet

Dancing Plague

Hans Steininger

Sir Arthur Aston

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden

John Kendrick

Monsieur Le Pique

Clement Vallandigham

Murderous Mary

The Great Molasses Flood

Frank Hayes

Isadora Duncan

Homer and Langley Collyer

Leonard Warren

Alan Stacey

David Grundman

Marc Bourjade

A Soccer Team

Sonny Graham

Jose Luis Ochoa

Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov

Julian and Adrian Riester

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