Word: alban
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell in Japan 150 years ago, and which has since been preserved in a temple as a relic...