Leonids
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The Leonids are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years. The Leonids get their n
A Leonid meteor during the peak of the Leonids in 2009
A famous depiction of the 1833 meteor storm, produced in 1889 for the Seventh-day Adventist book Bible Readings for the Home Circle.
Woodcut print depicts the shower as seen at Niagara Falls, New York. Mechanics' Magazine said this illustration was made by an editor named Pickering "who witnessed the scene."
The November Meteors by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, 1868
Blood Meridian
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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified as an anti-Western and Gothic Western. McCarthy's fifth book, it was pu
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…establishes that the members watched the Leonids together as children and named their band after the meteor shower. The main character of the novel Blood Meridian, The Kid, was born under the Leonid meteor shower in 1833. List of meteor showers…
Scalping lithograph circa 1850s
One of the epigraphs entails an ancient scalped skull.
Cormac McCarthy in 1980, by which time he had already been working on Blood Meridian for about five years
Edward S. Curtis – Canyon de Chelly (1904)