Panati's Browser's Book of Beginnings
"Graceful little essays on every subject from the origin of the universe to the invention of the rubber eraser." - New York Times
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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
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