FREE: 1001 Days That Shaped The World by Peter Furtado

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Like-new hardcover book. Excellent condition. Can currently be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc. for $20+

1001 DAYS THAT SHAPED THE WORLD is a door-stopper of a book, some 960 pages long. It has to be since its coverage of the most significant moments in human history starts with the "big bang," ends with the May 2008 China earthquake and spans the globe. Each entry, which can be an event, invention, idea or creation, is given a half- or full-page summary, often with an accompanying illustration.

Just about all the "usual (historical) suspects" are here: the Battle of Marathon, RFK's assassination, the publication of THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the invention of smallpox vaccine, Gutenberg's Bible, Edward VIII abdicates, Gandhi is slain, the discovery of X-Rays, the defeat of the Armada, the Magna Carta and on and on.

Yet it's the other, "not-quite-so-famous" entries that are most fascinating. Included in this category are the 1576 Antwerp massacre, Algerian independence, the 1870 doctrine of papal infallability, Jesse Owens' Olympic victory, the discovery of laughing gas, the Black Hole of Calcutta, Pocahontas weds, the death of Titian, the Marshall Plan, the first talkie, the establishment of the Mauryan empire, etc.

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