And, how did Death Valley get its name?
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Is there such a thing as a good dictator? Napoleon Bonaparte (reenacted above) modernized the law and civil service from the ashes of feudalism and the French Revolution. The soldier-turned-emperor seized territory and glory, but ultimately lost both and sacrificed a generation on the battlefield.
He also reintroduced slavery. One historian says to celebrate Napoleon, the topic of an upcoming movie, “is to suggest that the people whose lives he destroyed actually don’t matter.”
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 | | VIDEO BY BERTIE GREGORY | | | Adventures better than ever: Immersed in schools of fish. Running with hyenas. Climbing peaks of mountains. Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory doesn’t shy away from nature’s best—and captures it all for us to see. His new show streams in September. See the trailer here. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY KARIM ILIYA/VERB PHOTO | | River of fire: Rising up and spilling over, Iceland’s volcanoes are once again erupting. An aerial view shows the Litli Hrútur eruption, taken just two weeks ago, creating a fiery river stretching across the land.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY RAUL TOUZON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Feeling hot, hot, cold? This place holds the record as the hottest place in the world—in 1913, it apparently reached 134°F. Death Valley, however, didn’t get its name from the blistering heat—but from a winter disaster. (Pictured above, the Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park.)
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Today’s soundtrack: The Bones, Maren Morris and Hozier
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