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Sacred Origins of Profound Things
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Charles Panati
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-12-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the rea
Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
Language: en
Pages: 486
Authors: Charles Panati
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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A compendium of facts and anecdotes about the demise of historic figures, diseases, beliefs, capital endings, and extinctions.
The Sacred and the Profane
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Mircea Eliade
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1959 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nou
Sexy Origins and Intimate Things
Language: en
Pages: 548
Authors: Charles Panati
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Where did the word love come from? Has there ever been a gay pope? How did Valentine's Day originate? From the lascivious to the romantic, from the hard-core to
Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Charles Panati
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-15 - Publisher: Chartwell Books

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Relates facts and information about a host of ordinary things ranging from safety pins to negligees.