Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

2007-02-25 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Sterling - Thanks much for the link. The Rev. Dick's work was probably the ultimate source for the face on mars stuff we see today. Incorporated into American spiritualist movements, Dick's nonsense lives on to today. My favorite hoax was a trans-Atlantic balloon crossing fabricated by Edgar

Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

2007-02-25 Thread Pete Pete
al.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:17:09 -0500 (EST) Here's the article you requested: New York Times, March 11 1897, p. 1 EXPLOSION OF A METEOR --- One Man Rendered Unconscious and the Head of a Ho

Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Shallit
Here's the article you requested: New York Times, March 11 1897, p. 1 EXPLOSION OF A METEOR --- One Man Rendered Unconscious and the Head of a Horse Crushed Parkersburg, West Va., March 10. - A meteor burst over the town of New Martinsville yesterday. The noise of the explosion resembled the

Re: [meteorite-list] ill need more AGAIN

2007-02-24 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Mark is certainly correct about the hoaxing propensities of 19th century (and early 20th century) newspapers. The ultimate example is that is the "Great Moon Hoax" of 1832: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax You will note that Mark's list is of very dramatic accounts. OK, th