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The book of origins: discover the amazing origins..

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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 dentis..,

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Call Number

032 HOM b

Publisher

New York : A Plume Book., 2007

Collation

307p.; 20 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-452-28832-4

Classification

032

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Subject(s)

GENERAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA

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