Panati’s Browser’s Book of Beginnings
Charles Panati
427 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0395562384
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1990
Describes the origins of more than 1000 objects, ideas, movements, and concepts, including checkers, the computer, ragtime, Islam, ice cream, the abacus, Yiddish, and many other familiar and not-so-familiar things