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02424aam a22003258i 4500 001 BA2BB496C64F11EEAFB2E76A28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240208010021 008 240207t20232024nyud e 000 0 eng d 020 $a 151077663X 020 $a 9781510776630 035 $a (OCoLC)1378627681 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d BDX $d TOH $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OJ4 $d SILO 082 04 $a 551 $2 23 084 $a 551 $b MYE 100 1 $a Myers, Joel N., $e author. 245 10 $a Invisible iceberg $h [Book] : $b when climate and weather shaped history / $c Joel N. Myers. 246 30 $a Why the Nazis lost and the Titanic really sank 264 1 $a New York : $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a 221 pages : $b charts ; $c 23 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 32.00 500 $a pre-publication title: Why the Nazis lost and the Titanic really sank and 50 other history changing weather events /. 520 $a "Discover the impactful ways that climate and weather changed the very course of human history from the founder and CEO of AccuWeather! Learn about the comet that hit Earth almost 67 million years ago, and how it triggered a massive climate disruption that led to the extinction of the dinosaur; the dramatic climate shift in 1213 BC that created the conditions for the Ten Plagues of Egypt, a foundational moment in three major world religions; how superior knowledge of the winds allowed the ancient Greeks to prevail over Persian attackers in 400 BC; the volcano in 44 BC that helped launch the Roman Empire; how Tropical storms thwarted Mongol invaders and preserved an independent Japan in 1273; how the "Little Ice Age" ushered in the age of the European Witch Trials, which eventually influenced the Salem Witch Trials; the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 in an Atlantic hurricane that inspired Shakespeare's last play The Tempest ; the fog that helped to create an independent United States of America during the Revolutionary War; the storm in 1814 that ended the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte; the "Great White Hurricane," i.e. two major blizzards, that helped create the New York Subway System in 1888; and so much more!" --cGoodreads. 650 0 $a World history. 650 0 $a Weather $x History. 941 $a 2 952 $l ELPC715 $d 20240622093922.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240208010042.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA2BB496C64F11EEAFB2E76A28ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search