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Night of the "Falling of the Stars" |
| "This is one reason many of those people saw the 'falling of the stars' on the early morning of the thirteenth of November, 1833. Twenty years ago there were still living scores of people who witnessed this extraordinary and fearful sight. (1914, Arthur, John. Western North Carolina, p. 269.) |
| [This "Night of the Falling Stars," was actually a very active Leonid Shower. |
| Bibliography: |
| Sawyer-Hogg, Helen, "Out of Old Books (The Leonid Shower of 1833), Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 56, p.215, October 1962. |