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...meteor had wrecked the plane and killed the occupants, it would have been the first incontrovertible instance of such hail from outer space causing loss of human life. No one knows whether the mountainous mass that shook North Central Siberia in 1908, or the prehistoric fall that dug Meteor Crater 4,000 ft. wide in Arizona, killed anyone or not. But several close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites...
...food dropped only two small boxes containing peas were lost and none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than six inches...
...ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
Evidence against him was flimsy, yet if Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes should go before a Senate investigating committee indirectly to charge Tammany District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain with responsibility for the disappearance of Judge Crater, it would be of more than passing interest. So it was in Paris. Before the Parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal came the holder of the highest judicial post in France, Judge Théodore Lescouvé. First President of the Court of Cassation, to tell what he knew about Stavisky, what he knew in particular about the murder of his colleague Albert...
...took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into the volcano's vents almost sucked the plane down); the next year, his seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk...