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Blame it on the rain how the weather has changed history

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 Stradivarius'</ > - If 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 Dewey'</ >> Eye-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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