The Book of Origins

- Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the Peoplewe Know, the Languages We Speak, and t

Trevor Homer

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Engelsk
320 sider

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Everything--from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)--has an origin, but often it's not what we expect. A few things you may not have known: - Gandhi was married at age thirteen

- Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies."

- Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I.

- The original idea for the electric chair came from an American dentist. For aspiring mindblowers and wanna-be know-it-alls, The Book of Origins is a treasure trove of trivia and fascinating facts guaranteed to entertain and enlighten.

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Detaljer

SprogEngelsk
Sidetal320
Udgivelsesdato01-06-2007
ISBN139780452288324
Forlag Plume Books
MålgruppeFrom age 18
FormatPaperback
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Størrelse og vægt

Vægt267 g

Dybde1,7 cm

10 cm

13,6 cm

20,4 cm

The Book of Origins

- Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the Peoplewe Know, the Languages We Speak, and t

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