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Blame It on the Rain电子书

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作       者:Lee, Laura

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-01

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An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world.Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In Blame It on the Rain, author Laura Lee explores the amazing and sometimes bizarre ways in which weather has influenced our history and helped to bring about sweeping cultural change. She also delights us with a plethora of fascinating weather-related facts (Did you know that more Britons die of sunburn every year than Australians?), while offering readers a hilarious overview of humankind's many absurd attempts to control the elements. If a weather-produced blight hadn't severely damaged French vineyards, there might never have been a California wine industry. . . . What weather phenomenon was responsible for the sound of the StradivariusIf there had been a late autumn in Russia, Hitler could have won World War II. . . . Did weather play a part in Truman's victory over DeweyEye-opening, edifying, and totally unexpected, Blame It on the Rain is a fascinating appreciation of the destiny-altering vagaries of mother nature and it's even more fun than watching the Weather Channel!
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Humans on the Brink of Extinction

Noah’s Flood

The Population of Australia

Sea Breezes Save Western Culture

Tempestas Cooritur The Battle of Teutoburg Forest

Why the Sun Never Sets on the British Isles

The First Kamikaze

Loss of the True Cross

Greenland’s Vikings

The Treaty That Fell from the Sky

My Pope’s Better Than Your Pope

The Mud That Made England

The Fog of War

Lost Siberians

Which Witch Did This?

A Protestant Wind Destroys the Spanish Armada

Thanks to the Wind the Lost Colony Remains America’s Greatest Mystery

Gee, It’s Cold in Russia, Part I

The Secret of the Stradivarius

Another Protestant Wind Blows a New King to England’s Throne

Ben Franklin and That Kite

Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares

Washington and the Weather

Hail to the French Revolution

Rain Ruins Robespierre

The United Irishmen, the French, and the Rain

A Slave Revolt Washed Away

Gee, It’s Cold in Russia, Part II

Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave?

Tecumseh Is Lost in the Fog

The Water of Waterloo

Gee, It’s Cold in Russia, Part III

The Guy with the Sideburns Gets Stuck in the Mud

The Storm That Saved Civil War Prisoners

What Is That Guy in “The Scream” Afraid of?

A Gust of Wind and Aviation Obscurity

El Niño and Dashed Polar Dreams

Cold Shaving and Jacob Schick

The Failure of Forecasting and the Death of Lord Kitchener

Rain Clouds Put an End to the Age of the Airship

Gee, It’s Cold in Finland

Gee, It’s Cold in Russia, Part IV

D-Day

Blooming with Atoms

Sunshine over Hiroshima

Misreading the Monsoons

Dewey Defeats Truman

Canadian Chill Saves a National Park from Nuclear Contamination

Heat and the Powder Keg

Making Monsoons

Lucy and Her Friends

Operation Thwarted by Desert Storm

Meteorology and Rocketry

Blood Rain and World War III

Nature Does Not Carry a Passport

Bibliography

About the Author

Also by Laura Lee

Copyright

About the Publisher

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