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Mon 11 Nov 2009Get lost in maze of useless, intriguing facts

ROSITA BOLANDreviews Schott’s Almanac 2010by Ben Schott Bloomsbury €16.99; 352pp

IF YOU love lists, or browsing through digestible reminders of events that happened in the year gone by, then Schott’s Almanac 2010is the book for you. It now appears annually, and is an esoteric kind of reference book.