Trevor Homer: The Book of Origins

Cover: 9780452288324 | The Book of Origins | Trevor Homer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007

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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.

Über den Autor

Trevor Homer was born and educated in the Black Country and is a former British Amateur Champion golfer. He represented England seventeen times, winning the European Team Championship in 1973, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland eleven times.

He tried professional tournament golf in the USA and Europe for a brief period, but boredom set in trying to do for money, what had previously been played for fun. Trevor has lectured to the governing bodies of golf on the way forward in developing the sport, and currently acts as an expert witness in cases of personal injury on golf courses.

He has founded and developed several businesses and been a director of a number of private and public companies. He also ran a large charity at one point in his career. Married with two sons, he now lives in South Staffordshire.

History and interesting facts have fascinated him since schooldays and he has compiled The Book of Origins.

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Sachliteratur
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Titelzusatz:	Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the PeopleWe Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780452288324
ISBN-10:	0452288320
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Homer, Trevor
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 135 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Trevor Homer
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.05.2007
Gewicht:	0,369 kg