Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner

Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Greg Jenner

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

352 pages | first published 2021

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Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history’s weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How...
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