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From: Sandy Keylon< >
Subject: Re: [INCLINTO-L] Just Curious
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:13:30 EST


Pam,
Our paper this morning gave a brief history of the Leonid meteor
shower, and there was one in 1833.

"The 1833 Leonid shower caused bridge workers in France to put down their
tools and gather their families for last goodbyes. The light was so
intense that it spooked horses pulling carriages in the English
countryside. The flashes awoke people in the U.S. in panic, convinced
the sky was on fire. Others thought the stars were falling in a
celestial snowstorm...The forerunners of the Seventh Day Adventists
thought this was the end of the world...The 1833 storm ushered in modern
meteor science..."

It must have been a very major happening, and though the date is off from
your source, sounds like it could be what they saw.
Sandy

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:13:08 -0600 "Pam Wiley" <>
writes:
>Marylin,
>
>I thought about that too, when it was mentioned this morning on the
>news,
>but then I thought "Who would travel from KY to IN in November?" They
>came
>with about 10 children, too! Maybe they did, but it seems a bad time
>to go
>by wagon, as my source said they did!
>
>Hope it is warmer out there in CA. TX iseven chilly this morning.....
>Pam
>
>

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