In 1868 there was a large meteor shower visible over two nights, 13-14 November, from the East coast of the US and also Britain.
There's a lot of newspaper clippings about it at the time with reports from various locations. Just one example...
These pics are going around. Can someone explain why this stone looks fake? there's a few pics of the prez walking by this stone and it doesnt look natural? It looks like a layer of plaster. There's also this whole notion the the stonehenge was built in the 50s and there's some pretty compelling...
One problem I have in telling people that contrails can actually persist, and can even spread out to cover the sky, is that people tend to be suspicious of random people on the internet. So I decided to simply let 70 years of books on clouds speak for themselves.
Result: Every single book on...