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Brilliant Leonid Storm Likely Fodder For Later Lincoln Speech




Brilliant Leonid storm likely fodder for later Lincoln speech
By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press
November 19, 1999

SAN MARCOS -- The Great Emancipator was no Chicken Little.

Southwest Texas State University astronomer Don Olson believes he has proof
that Abraham Lincoln saw the brilliant Leonid meteor storm of 1833 when
Lincoln was a young man living in New Salem, Ill.

The future 16th president likely was one of the few people around who didn't
think the sky was falling, Olson said.

Full story here:

http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/astronomy/news/1999/solarsys/9911
21.html

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