[Verginius Rufus]

Bright comets can appear at any time, and some have such long orbital periods that they may not approach the sun for thousands of years...so there is no way to know how many comets might have been visible in the centuries in question.

One of the plagues mentioned in Exodus is a plague of frogs. Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798 and brought with him a bunch of French scholars who studied the antiquities of Egypt. You'd think they would have made a special search for the bones of the frogs, being French.

[leadpenny]

"Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798 and brought with him a bunch of French scholars who studied the antiquities of Egypt. You'd think they would have made a special search for the bones of the frogs, being French."

You'd think.

LOL, my neighbors probably heard me laugh.