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Nov 13, 1833: “The Falling Stars”



Bible Readings for the Home Circle (1920), p. 420 of PDF.

It’s an ordinary night in November. You look up in the sky at around 10:30 pm and notice a few shooting stars. After you appreciate the pretty sight, you get ready for bed and tuck yourself in. Shortly after 3:00 am, you are awoken as your room fills with light. You can hear your neighbors outside shouting. As you rush outside, you’re met with a spectacular scene—the sky is lit up with hundreds of meteors, as if it’s raining fire. The barrage of lights persists until daybreak when the sunlight causes the meteors to fade from view. You can hardly believe what you saw, but you won’t soon forget it!

The Leonid meteor storm was seen across the United States in the night and early morning of November 12th and 13th, 1833. Those who were awake to witness the storm were in awe as between 50,000 and 150,000 meteors fell each hour. Denison Olmsted, a professor at Yale, wanted to know more about this phenomenon. However, he did not have much data to study aside from his own observations. As soon as the meteors began to disappear with the sunrise, Olmsted drafted a letter and sent it off to the New Haven Daily Herald, appealing to the public to send any information about the storm. This issue of the Daily Herald would be the catalyst for one of the first crowdsourced science projects—in which Olmsted used information from everyday people to help him make new discoveries about meteors.

“As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
-Denison Olmsted’s appeal reprinted in the Richmond Enquirer, Nov 26, 1833.



[Early days of social media]

Newspapers at the time were usually subscribed to each other and upon receiving their copy of the New Haven Daily Herald, papers across the nation began reprinting Olmsted’s letter. In addition, local newspapers took their own interest in reporting on the meteor storm, publishing eyewitness accounts and opinions from scientific experts.



Olmsted’s letter in the paper worked, and he received responses from all over the country. He was successfully able to crowdsource information about the meteor storm based on the descriptions of everyday people. Olmsted read through these accounts and used them to draw new conclusions about meteors. Olmsted published his findings in an 1834 edition of the American Journal of Science and Arts. This project, and the sheer scope of the feedback Olmsted received, would not have been possible without the help of newspapers circulating his call for information.

How Newspapers Helped Crowdsource a Scientific Discovery: The 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm

This meteor shower is mentioned in Blood Meridian OR The Evening Redness in the West (1985) epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy.

“Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.”   Book plot

In Episode 83 of Kosmographia titled Transcendental "X-factor" of Firestorm Survivors, Randall Carlson talks about this event in great detail. Link if interested: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTdmWDN1rM


Nov 13, 1925: 68 British Sailors Trapped in submarine HMS M-1. She sank with all 69 hands in 70 metres (230 ft) of water on 12 November  while on an exercise in the English Channel when a Swedish ship, SS Vidar, struck her.
"American naval men declare that this particular type never has proven very successful."


A diving team led by Innes McCartney discovered her wreck in 1999 at a depth of 73 metres (240 ft). Later that year, Richard Larn and a BBC TV documentary crew visited the wreck, and the resulting film was broadcast in March 2000.


Nov 13, 1963: JFK's final public appearance with his family, South Portico, White House, while watching Scottish Black Watch Highlanders regiment perform.





The Black Watch would return to perform at his funeral.



Nov 13, 1965: In San Diego, folk singer Joan Baez speaks with reporter Harold Keen the day after performing before a sold-out audience at the Civic Theater.



4 min news clip VIDEO


Somehow, somewhere between the Pentagon and our media presstitutes we jumped from 17 to 20... err at least 21 suspected narco boats destroyed and at least 80 people killed. The confusion on number of targets may be due to all the media spotlight on the Caribbean and not so much in the Pacific and to the south of Panama off the coast of Columbia.


U.S. conducts 20th strike on alleged drug boat, killing 4 people in Caribbean Sea


Fine, on the 20th strike the War Dept announces Operation Southern Spear.
I would call it Operation Ninurta Boar Spear.


Donald Trump Orders New Military Operation

A reuse of Mil-Op names in the same year or merged into one.?

Navy Operation Southern Spear



Juan Ponce Enrile, a power broker who switched sides more often than a tennis ball and survived all his enemies, finally falls to the Grim Reaper at 101.


Juan Ponce Enrile, a Political Power in the Philippines, Dies at 101


Australian conservative parties end split over "net zero" as Liberals join Nationals in rejecting the policy in an attempt to cut energy prices.
Meanwhile in the UK, Farage's reform and the Tories may scrap net zero, a move progressives say will give up British moral superiority on climate issues. Surging demand from AI data centers and Russia's invasion of Ukraine are derailing net zero plans.


Sky News


You’ve been chosen to save the future. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE, from director Gore Verbinski. Starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry and Juno Temple. Only in theaters February 13.

A "Man From the Future" arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Looks good and the soundtrack accounts for about 80% of it.