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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...about five minutes, while that of 1918 was only two minutes long. The " belt of totality " of the coming eclipse will be about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points???Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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