Reblogged from Research & Collections:

Wow! I've spent the morning watching video from the meteorite strike in Russia. The new  footage from the Chelyabinsk region of Russia is spectacular. The story is also very familiar: The same thing happened in North Carolina in 1934.

Residents of Kinston were surprised by a fireball in the sky and an explosion on 4 December 1934, at about 1:15 in the afternoon.

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