began making models out of toothpicks in fifth grade. His hobby led to the creation of a fleet of toothpick ships, including the Queen Mary, the Titanic and the Lusitania. build models of ocean liners ...

How do you fit the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and the Golden Gate Bridge all in the same museum? The answer is, you make them out of toothpicks. These are just three of more than 50 iconic ...

This book succeeds in surprising in different ways. It is written by a professor of civil engineering at Duke University who is at the same time a professor of history, and who already has 13 books ...