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Great American Bathroom Book

series of books

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5598625 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Great American Bathroom Book is a three-volume book series published in 1992, 1993 and 1994 (one volume each year) by Compact Classics. UK English versions of Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 were reprinted as Passing Time in the Loo by Scarab Book Limited.

Vol. 1

Published by Compact Classics, June 1992

ISBN 1-880184-04-4

Contents include:

Summaries of classic literature

Biographies

Business & Leadership

Word Power

Sports Summaries—How Games are Played

Trivia

Notable quotes from authors, religions, spirituality, dignitaries and other sources

Vol. 2

Published by Compact Classics, November 1993

ISBN 1-880184-10-9

Vol.

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“Great American Bathroom Book” enters the record as series of books. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Great, American and Bathroom can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Great, American and Bathroom.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5598625. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1993 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Great American Bathroom Book” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.