
How a freezing summer gave us Frankenstein, bicycles and more
Forever Ago
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The Year Without a Summer
The year 1816 was so wild it helped inspire the entire genre of science fiction. Mount Tambora erupted 100 times bigger than Mount St. Helens and a thousand times bigger than Iceland's 2010 eruption. The volcano is on the island of Sambawa; at the time, there were villages around the base. It pretty much destroyed all of them.
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