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A Year Of Wonders

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English - November 21, 2019 05:01 - 39 minutes - 37.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14.1K ratings
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As extreme weather wreaks havoc around the globe we look at a natural disaster more than 200 hundred years ago that had far-reaching effects. This week, how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki awed, terrified and disrupted millions around the world and changed the course of history.

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