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1816, the Year Without a Summer

In Our Time

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The Effects of the Tambora Eruption

Claire Claremont's determination to meet up with Lord Byron again and the weather. Bring that group together on the shores of late Geneva and if the weather had been fine and sunny, they would have spent much more time boating and touring. It's something about Mary Poppins and Stone. Possibly, but because the weather's bad, they are confined indoors. And they start writing ghost stories. They actually enjoy watching the thunderstorms. Although occasionally they get drenched by them soaked to the skin,. So there's an experience both of the aesthetic spectacle of thunder and lightning, but also the discomfort.

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