Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay — raconteur, historian, and one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists — exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. You'll find engaging vignettes on a daunting variety of topics: including a man who made a model of the Lincoln Cathedral out of 1,000,800 bottle corks; a woman continuously pregnant for six-and-a-half years; a theatrical strong man who became the world's leading Egyptologist; and a healthy number of digressions on time, money, and the argot of thieves.