A Monstrous Commotion
The Mysteries of Loch Ness
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Gareth Williams
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The Loch Ness monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?
Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and Chicago University; they lost their jobs because they refused to renounce their belief in the creature. For decades the scientific establishment was determined to quash attempts to investigate Loch Ness - until Nature, the world's greatest research journal, published an article by Peter Scott featuring underwater photographs of the monster.
Drawing extensively on new material, Gareth Williams takes a wholly original look at what really happened in Loch Ness. A Monstrous Commotion tells the story as never before: a gripping saga populated by colourful characters who do extraordinary things in pursuit of one of evolution's wildest cards.
Meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by nature and its mysteries - and to everyone who enjoys a beautifully crafted detective story with a strong cast of heroes and villains, plenty of twists and an unexpected ending.
Read by Andrew Cullum and featuring a postscript narrated by the author. ©2015 Gareth Williams (P)2016 Orion Publishing GroupLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary book! Masterpiece.
- De BVerité en 04-23-13
De: Monte Reel
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Ice Ghosts
- The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
- De: Paul Watson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 411
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845 - whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice - with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed Writing Dashes High Hopes :(
- De Gillian en 03-31-17
De: Paul Watson
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Raising the Hunley
- The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
- De: Brian Hicks, Schuyler Kropf
- Narrado por: Harry Chase
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
"Forget the Titanic; this sub wreck is hot," says the Wall Street Journal. Award-winning journalists Hicks and Kropf offer new insights into the dramatic history and mysterious disappearance of the Hunley, the first submersible to sink another ship. The Hunley represented one of the major technological breakthroughs of the Civil War, and it has fascinated many to the point of obsession ever since its disappearance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Civil War history
- De Randall E. en 11-10-03
De: Brian Hicks, y otros
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Remarkable Creatures
- Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
- De: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more remarkable real story of how our world evolved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Remarkable Journey
- De Michael Dowd en 03-22-09
De: Sean B. Carroll
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The Curse of Oak Island
- The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- De: Randall Sullivan
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 730
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 731
The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan takes listeners along to follow their quest firsthand.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The ultimate Osk Island show add on
- De Amazon Customer en 03-27-19
De: Randall Sullivan
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War of the Whales
- A True Story
- De: Joshua Horwitz
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound - and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Legal Drama - better than fiction
- De W. P. Brown en 08-23-14
De: Joshua Horwitz
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The United States of Cryptids
- A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
- De: J. W. Ocker
- Narrado por: Mark Sanderlin
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker not only uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures but investigates the ways in which communities have embraced and celebrated their local cryptids.
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5 out of 5 stars
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US Cryptid Tour
- De Admiralu en 10-15-24
De: J. W. Ocker
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition - starving, battered, and nearly naked - they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Parallels
- De Bruce McClenahan en 01-25-19
De: John F. Ross
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American Eclipse
- A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
- De: David Baron
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just OK.
- De Melanie A Hwalek en 09-18-17
De: David Baron
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Falling Upwards
- How We Took to the Air
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of early ballooning
- De Jeffrey L. Smith, PE en 11-30-24
De: Richard Holmes
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- De: Emily Voigt
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- De Fishgen en 06-26-16
De: Emily Voigt
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 418
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STUPENDOUS!
- De Curious Artist Librarian en 10-29-12
De: Timothy Egan
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The First Human
- The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
- De: Ann Gibbons
- Narrado por: Renee Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting subject, poor execution
- De A book reader en 10-14-06
De: Ann Gibbons
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The Shipwreck Hunter
- A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
- De: David L. Mearns
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delivered More Than I Expected!
- De Jason V. Kilmer en 08-07-18
De: David L. Mearns
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Wild Ones
- A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Jon Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The line between conservation and domestication...
- De Bonny en 04-02-14
De: Jon Mooallem
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Secret Treasure of Oak Island
- The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt
- De: D'Arcy O'Connor
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. Ever since that summer day, the possibility of what might be hidden in the depths of a small island off the south coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, has made it the site of the world's longest, most expensive, and most perplexing treasure hunt. Author D'Arcy O'Connor recounts the fascinating stories and amazing discoveries of past and current treasure seekers who have sought Oak Island's fabled treasure for over 200 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very informative
- De David en 03-12-19
De: D'Arcy O'Connor
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation
- In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
- De: David Welky
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it all comes together at the end
- De Kat en 01-30-18
De: David Welky
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Monstrous Commotion
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Thorough Review of the Topic
A very comprehensive review of the entire topic of the Loch Ness Monster. The author describes and thoroughly nvestigates each siting, including the circumstances, the plausibility of the witness , etc. This is a long book due the detail and long period of history of the Monster. In the end the author examines whether the Monster is truth or myth. You' ll need to listen till the end to find out!
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