Oops! A Treasury of Historical Face-Palms

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Oops! A Treasury of Historical Face-Palms

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

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A darkly humorous collection of history's most spectacular institutional failures, from the nursing school that rejected Rosa Parks to the Dutch admiralty that burned their own fleet to avoid accountability. These 27 tales reveal how bureaucratic blindness, corporate arrogance, and well-intentioned stupidity have shaped our world in ways both tragic and absurd.

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