- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, United States History, Ontdekkingen, Encyclopedias
This book records more than 9,000 first happenings, discoveries and inventions that have occurred throughout American history from the year 1007, when the first child of European parents was born on American soil, to 1980. - Jacket.
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- earnestironic
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Joseph Nathan Kane
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 1122
- Publisher
- H. W. Wilson, H.W. Wilson, Wilson.
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780824210656
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Joseph Nathan Kane (January 23, 1899 – September 22, 2002) was an American non-fiction writer, historian, and journalist. He is best known for being a researcher who found the person that did an event first and what products, services, and inventions were first to come about. His book Famous First Facts with later publications is a reference book used by academic and public libraries. He hosted a weekly national radio program in the 1930s on facts that were first and was an authority for quiz programs like The $64,000 Question and Break the Bank. He wrote 52 books that had to do with trivia and first facts. He was a consultant to various radio and television stations as well as to the United
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