num_pages: 427
description: 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
language: English
title: Panati's Browser's Book of Beginnings
titlecomplete: Panati's Browser's Book of Beginnings
genres: History, Reference, Trivia, Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Houghton Mifflin