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• The Count of Monte Cristo and NapoleonEdmond Dantès is jailed for carrying a letter from Elba, and meets the Abbé Faria in the Château d'If.
• Dumas's father, the general who defied NapoleonGeneral Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, born enslaved in Saint-Domingue, fell out with Napoleon and was imprisoned, the seed of Monte Cristo.
• The Suez Canal and the route to India and AustraliaOpened in 1869, the canal cut London to Bombay from about 10,700 to about 6,200 nautical miles.
• Bruno, Galileo and "Eppur si muoveWere people put to death for saying the Earth isn't the center? Bruno was burned in 1600, mostly for theology; Galileo was convicted in 1633.