[meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse

From: rm31 at free.fr <rm31_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:10:47 +0200
Message-ID: <1334243447.4f86f0778b2da_at_imp.free.fr>

Hi Doug, Hi List,

Video from tv news (in French) with some shots of the exhibition in the middle.
I'm the funny guy speaking at the end.

http://info.francetelevisions.fr/video-info/index-fr.php/?id-video=TOUL_1637865_100420120947_F3&ids=TOUL_1637865_100420120947_F3&id-categorie=REPORTAGES_INFO

Some pictures of the stones:

http://meteorites.superforum.fr/t4834p15-exposition-bicentenaire-de-chute-de-la-meteorite-de-toulouse

Thanks again Doug for the interesting points of history you mention!
The paper on the toad rain is page 54-55
(http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2962t/f58).
As for the battle of Toulouse, this was, according to the French wiki, a
defensive victory. The city was shortly occupied the
scott-brit-spanish-portuguese army of Wellington. People were rather royalists
at this time in the region so it did not cause much trouble. I've read that the
british officer in command visited the local Academy to discuss about science
and also the astronomical observatory where he gave some advices on how to
adjust the instruments.
Btw, do you know that Batman was from the region of Toulouse and that he first
invented the airplane? Try a web search for "Clement Ader". Same for Spiderman
alias "Jules Leotard", another interesting guy from here. That's probably thanks
to these guys that nowadays we make planes and satellites in Toulouse!

List-members, contact me off list before you come to Toulouse so that we can
arrange an english-spoken visit.

Cheers,
Renaud

Selon MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>:

> Hello Renaud, and all the kind listers who have been making all sorts
> of comments on this thread. I hope the extra publicity gets a few more
> motivated to go to the Toulouse exhibit.
>
> There is another odd tie to Toulouse, here in the USA can relate to.
> Meteorites seemed to be harbingers of a lot of Napoleons doings.
> Precisely two years to the day after the meteoritical fall in
> Napoleonic Toulouse 10 April 1812, the British led a force 10 April
> 1814 in an epic meteoric irradication of Napoleon's empire in a key
> battle there. Then those same high-stepping drum beating Brits that
> did this had management push its luck straight to American shores
> thinking if they could defeat Napoleon, that we would be shoo-fly pie
> and apple pan dowdy. Well, unfortunately for them, our gator eaters
> avenged Napoleon's last stand here and as the oral history relates the
> shameful fate of these would be double conquerers in Napoleon's gift to
> Thomas Jefferson:
>
> So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
> We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
> And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind
> Yeah, they ran through the briars
> And they ran through the brambles
> And they ran through the bushes
> Where the rabbit couldn't go
>
> (and rabbits can slip into the worse raspberry & poison ivy patch!)
>
> And thus Napoleon's defeat was avenged hot Jambalaya style ...
>
> OK, that was a great break during this lull, like the eye of a storm I
> can feel in my bones a whopper of a meteorite fall is nearing on the
> event horizon ...
>
> Couldn't find the article in the 1836 antiquarian journal posted for
> the toadstorm but I got lost looking (page #?) - it was the table of
> contents that opened and I'm a slow reader ;-(
>
> The jungle story via tropical photos was fun, thanks; and the Frog
> festival (which is just a 3-4 hour drive down the highway from here;
> comments on eating frogs; forgive me for assuming that in France all
> would be eating them fried like us, I see butter and garlic is
> preferred by some of our refined listmembers, but in these territories
> thanks to the Cajuns we like them fried and eat them with hush puppies
> and chitlins, which are misbehaved baby dogs and chitenous aggregations
> for those unfamiliar with other delicious exotics we eat down here
> (besides alligators and iguanas, which are all subnstituted for chicken
> when tourists without their knowledge since you can't tell the
> difference)
>
> Since I can't go to France, the whole country is invited to Florida for
> some monster escargot that is a traditional Florida dish, only these
> snails are as big as human heads (we call 'em conch fritters - of
> course fried) and they combine well with Alligator tail steaks.
>
> ...and for anyone who would wonder wtf this has with meteorites, beats
> me but one hypothesis is that everyone interested in meteorites
> expresses a bottled up sense of adventure inside, just waiting to
> explode out. When we look at meteorites, it is to experience through
> the senses first hand the different flavors developed in the Solar
> crockpot. We chase a meteorite fall, whether with boots on the ground
> or a silver pick on eBay; it is that same emotion of seeking out what
> is different, whether it be a kolache, boudin ball, haggis (which I
> understand are little burrowing animals the Scots turn inside out and
> eat raw according to a bonnie Scottish lassie), Cui, and all kinds of
> interesting stuff.
>
> Have a great time in Toulouse to all at the exhibit and thanks for the
> first link!
>
> Kindest wishes
> Doug
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rm31 <rm31 at free.fr>
> To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 10:47 am
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse
>
>
> Hi List,
>
> First pictures and links to local tv news here:
>
>
http://meteorites.superforum.fr/t4834p15-exposition-bicentenaire-de-chute-de-la-meteorite-de-toulouse
>
> More to come!
>
> Renaud
>
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