[meteorite-list] more on Info needed

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:56:52 -0500
Message-ID: <014601c75927$dbfc9a70$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

"The meteor, which was glowing hot,"
What think yee now? Was the Times then, as earnest in their persuit of the
truth of what they printed?
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Jeffrey Shallit" <elvis at graceland.math.uwaterloo.ca>
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> Ask and ye shall receive:
>
> "Little thing like a meteor fails to discourage bride"
> New York Times
> December 8 1929
> p. E1
>
> Special correspondence of the New York Times
>
> Belgrade, Nov. 20. - The heavens "blessed" a bride in unwonted
> and unwelcome form in the village of Zvezvan today. As the wedding
> party was nearing the church a meteor fell into one of the carriages
> immediately in front of that in which the bride was seated.
>
> One of the wedding guests, a man, was killed, the woman sitting
> opposite him was badly injured and the bride fainted. The crowd
> scattered in panic, but after a brief delay the marriage was
> duly solemnized.
>
> The meteor, which was glowing hot, measured forty centimeters in
> diameter.
>
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