Author: Hadara Carol
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663232075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What's In Store For You? The book deals with unusual contributions, inventions and customs that came to us from many different cultures and peoples throughout the ages. For example, what is the story behind giving someone the “middle finger flip,” or where did the custom of wearing a cap and gown for graduation came to us from? Additionally, why did we adopt the seven-day week as well as the sixty second in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour? Or what is the story behind the “red carpet” treatment when celebrities or important officials come to visit? In this book you will learn abut the origin of these practices from the ancient Sumerians all the way to the present. They are not what you think!!!
Fascinating Little-Known Facts from Around the World
Author: Hadara Carol
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663232075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What's In Store For You? The book deals with unusual contributions, inventions and customs that came to us from many different cultures and peoples throughout the ages. For example, what is the story behind giving someone the “middle finger flip,” or where did the custom of wearing a cap and gown for graduation came to us from? Additionally, why did we adopt the seven-day week as well as the sixty second in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour? Or what is the story behind the “red carpet” treatment when celebrities or important officials come to visit? In this book you will learn abut the origin of these practices from the ancient Sumerians all the way to the present. They are not what you think!!!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663232075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
What's In Store For You? The book deals with unusual contributions, inventions and customs that came to us from many different cultures and peoples throughout the ages. For example, what is the story behind giving someone the “middle finger flip,” or where did the custom of wearing a cap and gown for graduation came to us from? Additionally, why did we adopt the seven-day week as well as the sixty second in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour? Or what is the story behind the “red carpet” treatment when celebrities or important officials come to visit? In this book you will learn abut the origin of these practices from the ancient Sumerians all the way to the present. They are not what you think!!!
Little Known Tales in California History
Author: Alton Pryor
Publisher: Stagecoach Pub
ISBN: 0966005317
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Read about The Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans.
Publisher: Stagecoach Pub
ISBN: 0966005317
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Read about The Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans.
The mariner's chronicle; or Interesting narratives of shipwrecks
Author: Mariner
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels
Author: John Pinkerton
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, in All Parts of the World
Author: John Pinkerton
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting Productions of Britain and the Surrounding Sea
Author: Robert Mudie
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Category : Nature study
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Nature study
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Sketches of Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting and Hitherto Unnoticed Districts in the North and South
Author: C. O.
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
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The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
Author: John Wesley
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Publisher:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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