The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds

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Clarksdale, Mississippi has a history inextricably intertwined with blues music with a number of famed musicians hailing from the Southern city, but its best known claim to fame is likely the crossroads where the famous legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil in exchange for musical talent is said to have taken place. Their evidence? Water-flow volume, measured before and after the waterfall, their theory being that if the water actually ended up in the lake, the water flow downstream from the waterfall should be demonstrably less.

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Brooke-Hitching, Edward (14 October 2021). The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1398503557.

Brooke-Hitching, Edward (1 October 2020). The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781471166914. Funder reveals how O’Shaughnessy Blair self-effacingly supported Orwell intellectually, emotionally, medically and financially ... why didn’t Orwell do the same for his wife in her equally serious time of need?’ These “devil’s bridges” were not at all uncommon in medieval times, and like most this has a story of soul-selling and outwitting Satan. Supposedly the builder found that he was woefully behind building the bridge (hopefully not the same man who had been slaving on it for seven decades), and made a pact with the devil to trade his soul for the bridge’s completion. However, he gave the devil a sieve with which to carry water for the final batch of mortar, and the devil of course couldn’t do it, so the bridge was technically never finished. Naturally, Satan was angry, but his best idea of revenge was to break a stone off from the central tower’s corner, and remove it each night that it was replaced. Bull, Andy (9 October 2018). "Octopus wrestling shows sports do die – but mainly ones that deserve to". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 January 2020.

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Ugaz’s case is all too familiar in Peru, where powerful groups regularly use the courts to silence journalists by fabricating criminal allegations against them.’ Edward Brooke-Hitching is an English author, and a writer and researcher for the BBC panel show QI, as a member of the team known as the "QI Elves". He is the son of the rare book dealer Franklin Brooke-Hitching [1] and a descendant of the printer and bibliographer William Blades, who wrote the history of book preservation The Enemies of Books. [2] Brooke-Hitching, Edward (2018). The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1471166822.Whitworth, Damian (19 November 2016). "The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching". The Times . Retrieved 5 January 2020.