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[p. 16] Terrific. The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort, [1919], at sacred-texts.com IN the autumn of 1883, and for years afterward, occurred brilliant-colored sunsets, such as had never been seen before within the memory of all observers. Also there were blue moons. | think that one is likely to smile incredulously at the notion of blue moons. Nevertheless they were as common as were green suns in 1883. Science had to account for these unconventionalities. Such publications as Nature and Knowledge were besieged with inquiries. | suppose, in Alaska and in the South Sea Islands, all the medicine men were similarly upon trial. Something had to be thought of. Upon the 28th of August, 1883, the volcano of Krakatoa, of the Straits of Sunda, had blown up.