According to Notes and Queries, 8-6-104, lizards fell on the sidewalks of Montreal, Canada, on Dec. 28, 1857. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p93 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about To be fair is to have no opinion at all
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Only by coincidence
Ponton’s Earthquakes, p. 118, describes an earthquake in Illinois preceded by “‘a luminous appearance, described by some as a meteor and by others as vivid flashes of lightning’” on October 8, 1857. Although felt in Illinois, the center of the event was in St. Louis, Missouri. Something “exploded terrifically in the sky,…and shook the … [Read more...] about Only by coincidence
Only by coincidence
Ponton’s Earthquakes, p. 118, describes an earthquake in Illinois preceded by “‘a luminous appearance, described by some as a meteor and by others as vivid flashes of lightning’” on October 8, 1857. Although felt in Illinois, the center of the event was in St. Louis, Missouri. Something “exploded terrifically in the sky,…and shook the … [Read more...] about Only by coincidence