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Phillip Adams' Histories of Everything: Organising words
In the final episode of our 'Histories of Everything' series, Phillip Adams explores our obsession with words, and how it led to the invention of the index, the encyclopedia and crossword puzzles.
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In the final episode of our 'Histories of Everything' series, Phillip Adams explores our obsession with words, and how it led to the invention of the index, the encyclopedia and crossword puzzles.
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