[decimon]

Night and day ping.

Perhaps within your FR purviews.

[ozark hilljilly]

A wildfire no doubt started by some evil Puritan SUV!

[Mr. Pumblechook]

“the International Journal of Wildland Fire.”

There’s a page turner publication for you.

[Sacajaweau]

These states were more or less at war at the time...fighting over boundaries...and there were plenty of scientists around....and newspapers....so I'm not sure why this BECAME a mystery...

They make it sound like we were living in the dark ages.

Wonder how big the grant for this was??

[sbMKE]

American Imperialism strikes again!

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. Nearly 230 years later, MU researchers combined written accounts and fire scar evidence to determine that the dark day was caused by massive wildfires burning in Canada. This has been suggested a number of times in the past. My junior high science teacher once told me he'd done some kind of college paper in which he'd come to that conclusion. :') Google Not the only mystery of 1780 -- Where did the 1780 eclipse go? To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

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A Mysterious Darkness: The Day the Sun Went Out in New England
The Colonial Williamsburg Journal | Summer 2005 | Andrew G. Gardner
Posted on 05/20/2005 9:46:07 AM PDT by quidnunc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407171/posts

[SunkenCiv]

May 19, 1780

Google

[LibertyRocks]

I had a little chuckle when reading the title - it would seem in typing up the press release someone made a teeny mistake! It was not “3 rings” that they studied, rather TREE rings (and more than 3 of them)! LOL

I can’t believe the university didn’t catch this...

[marsh2]

On the Klamath, they have determined the probable effects of nuclear winter by studying the darkness during one of our severe wildfires. (Generally caused by lightning, by the way.)

[Hegemony Cricket]

Thirty-five posts and not one mention of Superbowl XLII? Hmmmm...

[ODC-GIRL]

My 6th Great Grandfather would have been in the midst of rebuilding him home in the Mohawk Valley for the third time after it was burned down by local native tribes yet again. Wonder what he thought of that day. After everything he’d been through, probably didn’t faze him much.