The Browser’s Book of Beginnings: Origins of Everything Under, and Including, the Sun
Charles Panati
448 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140276947
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Language: English
Publish: December 1, 1998
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