In the days before the invention and widespread use of the electric telegraph, international news travelled very slowly indeed - basically, ...

The Mount Tambora Caldera today (NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons ). Prior to the explosion, Mount Tambora was 14,000 ft high,...

On Wednesday 5th April 1815, at Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, what would become the largest observed vo...