Hi Sterling: The events quoted by you from John Lewis' book are open to interpretation. Similar interpretations give us:
Ezekiel saw a flying saucer And, for those who like interpretations of the Bible and other writings: Joshua made the Earth stand still: This was due to the fact that Venus was a comet that was spun off(?) from Jupiter (do not remember if this was the source of the Great Red Spot) and flew by the Earth twice before becoming a new planet. My memory is a little hazy on this, but I think this is also the source of our oil. [I. Velikovsky] I think that it has been claimed that this was confirmed when we found out that Venus was hot, having been predicted by Velikovsky. Larry PS Sterling: Are you going to make me go back a reread the book to give you more specific references? > Hi, Matt, List, > > On September 14, 1511, in Cremona in Lombardy, > Italy, a monk, several birds, and a sheep were killed > by meteorites. > > Sometime between 1647 and 1654, two sailors on a > ship en route from Japan to Sicily, while in the Indian > Ocean, were killed by meteorites. > > Sometime between 1633 and 1664, a monk in Milan > was killed by a meteorite which severed his femoral > artery, causing him to bleed to death. > > Chinese records of lethal impact events include the > death of 10 victims from a meteorite fall in 616 AD, an > "iron rain" in the O-chia district in the 14th century > that killed people and animals, several soldiers injured > by the fall of a "large star" in Ho-t'ao in 1369, and many > others. The most startling is a report of an event in early > 1490 in Ch'ing-yang, Shansi, in which many people > were killed when stones "fell like rain." Of the three > known surviving reports of this event, one says that > "over 10,000 people" were killed, and one says that > "several tens of thousands" were killed. > > There is a discussion of these and many more such > incidents in John S. Lewis, "Rain of Iron and Ice," 1996. > > One could collect pages and pages of early accounts of > meteorite falls and pages more of events that could well > be meteoritic although those that wrote the accounts > did not know of the idea that stones could fall from the > sky. You could fill a book... and people have. > > A catalogue of meteorites is not a book of reported falls; > it is a book of collected and curated falls. The oldest > curated stone is NOGATA, which fell May 19, 861 AD. > It hit a shrine and has been kept there ever since. The > meteorite that hit a house in NARA (then the capital > city of Japan) in 764 AD doesn't count because nobody > has it safely curated. > >> ...can they be substantiated? > > No more or less than the rest of history. They tell me > Julius Caesar was assassinated. That's the story. Most > agree that it happened. No one wrote to deny it. It's the > story I always heard, so I believe it, like I do all the rest > of history. But I wasn't there, I haven't checked the DNA > on the dagger, I don't know where he was buried, I haven't > read the autopsy report. I'm more than a carpet fiber away > from proving the case... > > Three Chinese historical chronicles recount the huge > meteorite fall and thousands of deaths in Ch'ing-yang, > Shansi, in late February or early March of 1490. It's as > much history as Caesar's assassination is, no more, no > less. It's as "substantiated" as any history. There were > no Ming Dynasty tabloid news stories. History-writing > was politically sensitive and historians were occasionally > executed for falsity, particularly about "heavenly" events. > > > Sterling K. Webb > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <m...@mhmeteorites.com> > To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:18 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Deaths? Interesting old article-read > > >>A friend sent this link to me in regard to the Bear Creek meteorite. >> <http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Uk1ELzE4NjYvMDUvMTQjQXIwMDIwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom> >> >> Near the end of the text it details the deaths of 3 monks and 2 >> Swedish sailors by meteorite impact! >> Has anyone heard of this? The passage reads: >> >> "A few instances are on record of buildings being struck and set on >> fire and persons struck dead by the fall of aerolites. These Three >> monks were killed, one on the 4th September 1611, at Crema (?), >> another at Milan, in 1650, and a third in the same place in 1660. In >> 1674 two Swedish sailors on board ship were killed by the fall of >> one." >> >> Having never heard of this I searched the Catalog of Meteorites and >> came up blank. Has anyone heard of these falls and can they be >> substantiated? >> >> Matt Morgan >> ______________________________________________ >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
