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  • Wild Bill Hickock: Gambler, Gunfighter, Lawman, and the Dead Man's Hand

    de Shane Larson ...
    The most famous gunfighter in the West died with his back to the door — holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights.On August 2, 1876, in a log saloon in the muddy gold camp of Deadwood, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok took the only open seat at the card table — the one facing away from the room. Twice he asked another player to switch. Twice he was refused. A drifter named Jack McCall walked up ... Leer más

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  • The Alaska Purchase

    de Shane Larson ...
    The Senate ratified the Alaska treaty in ten days, thirty-seven votes to two. Then the United States spent seventeen years declining to give Alaska a government.Everyone has heard that the Alaska Purchase was mocked as Seward's Folly. Mostly it wasn't. Read the newspapers of 1867 as a whole and the clear majority supported the treaty. "Walrussia" and "Seward's icebox" were real jokes, but they ... Leer más

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  • Atlantis: The True History of the World's Most Famous Legend

    de Shane Larson ...
    Atlantis was invented by one man, for one purpose, and we know his name.Everything the ancient world recorded about Atlantis fits in about twenty pages of two dialogues by Plato, written in the 350s BCE. No Greek writer before him mentions it. No Egyptian document does. Every ancient author who discusses it afterward is discussing Plato, and says so. And the second of the two dialogues stops mid ... Leer más

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  • Tom Horn: Hired Gun, Stock Detective, Hanged Man

    de Shane Larson ...
    He tracked Geronimo for the U.S. Army and hunted men for the Pinkertons. Then the cattle barons hired him to do the one thing the law never could — make their enemies disappear. And when the rope came, the powerful men he killed for let him hang alone.On a cold January morning in 1902, a stenographer crouched in the next room and wrote down every drunken, boasting word as Tom Horn bragged to a ... Leer más

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  • WannaCry: The Ransomware That Held the World Hostage

    de Shane Larson ...
    A stolen NSA weapon. A global hospital shutdown. A 22-year-old who stopped it for $10.69.On the morning of May 12, 2017, hospitals across England began to go dark. Screens froze mid-procedure, ambulances were turned away, and a red ransom demand — pay $300 in Bitcoin or lose your files forever — bloomed across the National Health Service. Within hours the same message appeared in Spain, Russia, ... Leer más

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  • Zero Day: The History of Cyber Warfare

    de Shane Larson ...
    From a curious graduate student's worm to nation-state armies wielding weaponized code — the complete history of how the internet became a battlefield.In 1988, a Cornell student released a self-replicating program that crashed 10% of the internet. It was primitive, accidental, and quaint by modern standards. It was also the first shot in a war that has never stopped escalating.In the decades since ... Leer más

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  • The Year Without a Summer: How a Volcano in 1815 Triggered Famine, Migration, and Frankenstein

    de Shane Larson ...
    In April 1815, a mountain in the Dutch East Indies blew itself apart and changed the world. Almost nobody knows the story.Mount Tambora's eruption was the largest in recorded human history — roughly four times the size of Krakatoa, well over a hundred times the size of Mount St. Helens. Tens of thousands died on Sumbawa and the islands around it. Then the sulfur reached the stratosphere, wrapped ... Leer más

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  • The Burning of the Codices: Diego de Landa and the Erasure of Maya Writing

    de Shane Larson ...
    Four Maya books survive. He burned the rest—and then wrote the key that let us read them.The Maya wrote books. Real books: bark paper coated in white gesso, folded into screenfolds between wooden or jaguar-skin covers, painted in red, black, and Maya blue in a full writing system that recorded astronomy, prophecy, medicine, genealogy, and history. This was a civilisation with a paper industry, ... Leer más

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  • The Kushan Empire: The Crossroads Where Greece, India, and China Met

    de Shane Larson ...
    For roughly four hundred years, Buddhist art refused to show the Buddha. Then an empire founded by displaced nomads put him on a gold coin.The coin is smaller than a thumbnail. On one side, a king in a heavy nomad coat stands at a fire altar, circled by Greek letters spelling out an Iranian language. On the other, a haloed figure in a monastic robe raises his hand beside a word no Greek ever ... Leer más

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  • The Villa of the Papyri: The Only Library of the Ancient World Still Being Read

    de Shane Larson ...
    Every library of the ancient world is gone. One survives — and for two centuries, nobody could open a single book in it.In August of 79, Vesuvius destroyed Herculaneum with surges of superheated gas and ash. It did not burn the library in the town's grandest villa. It carbonised it. The heat drove the water out of roughly eight hundred papyrus scrolls at a temperature just short of combustion, ... Leer más

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  • Timur: The Conqueror Who Rebuilt the Mongol Terror and Left Nothing Standing

    de Shane Larson ...
    He captured the sultan who was strangling Constantinople — and bought the city another fifty years. Most readers cannot place his name.In July 1402, outside Ankara, the most feared army in Europe was destroyed in a single day by an army from Samarkand. The Ottoman sultan Bayezid — conqueror of the last great crusade, besieger of Constantinople — ended the day a prisoner. His empire fell into a ... Leer más

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  • The Xiongnu: The Nomad Confederacy That Forced China to Build the Wall

    de Shane Larson ...
    For sixty years, the richest empire on earth paid its enemies to stay away.In the winter of 200 BC, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty marched north with the largest army in the world to settle the nomad problem — and spent seven days surrounded on a frozen hilltop by cavalry he could not catch and could not beat. He escaped by bribery. For the next six decades, China sent silk, grain, wine, ... Leer más

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