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Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carrolls eye-opening and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carrolls visit to the spot where Abraham Lincolns son was saved by the brother of Lincolns assassin. Carroll wondered, How many other unmarked places are there where intriguing events have unfolded and that we walk past every day, not realizing their significance To answer that question, Carroll ultimately trekked to every region of the country -- by car, train, plane, helicopter, bus, bike, and kayak and on foot. Among the things he learnedWhere in North America the oldest sample of human DNA was discovered Where Americas deadliest maritime disaster took place, a calamity worse than the fate of the TitanicWhich virtually unknown American scientist saved hundreds of millions of livesWhich famous Prohibition agent was the brother of a notorious gangsterHow a 14-year-old farm boys brainstorm led to the creation of televisionFeatured prominently in Here Is Where are an abundance of firsts from the first use of modern anesthesia to the first cremation to the first murder conviction based on forensic evidence outrages from riots to massacres to forced sterilizations and breakthroughs from the invention, inside a prison, of a revolutionary weapon to the recovery, deep in the Alaskan tundra, of a super-virus to the building of the rocket that made possible space travel.



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