of the Lyons home and startled 19-year-old Richard Lyons. The fireball flew around the room before disappearing with a concussive force that knocked Richard from his chair. The ball lightning next entered the cellar window of the house next door—belonging to one John Blynn—passed into the kitchen and through the range, cleaned the soot from the stovepipe on its way out, and ruined the Blynn family’s supper. Finally, the fireball drifted into the next house—the Garrity’s—where it left scorch marks and blasted out their range.

1 Causing a Religious Miracle (1904)



In Morristown, New Jersey, traveling painter Abbot Parker was struck by lightning while walking on the sidewalk. He was taken to All Souls’ Hospital where doctors and nuns realized the burns on his back had begun to form abut
this was originally a military term closely related to “commander”. This
slowly merged into its modern imperial meaning roughly co-incident with the
emperors slowly dropping republican forms and ruling in their own right.

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rgrieselhuber
Julius Caesar was a populist threat to the Senate aristocracy and his social /
monetary reforms put him at further odds.

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village-idiot
Indeed, and his military successes were also a threat.

But my point is more subtle. Caesar was a arguably a populist, and was both
ambitious and wildly popular with the common people of Rome. But there were a
few incidents where Caesar was offered to be crowned king, and the people of
Rome _hated_ it. It would be a few more generations before the idea of being
ruled by a guy in purple whose dad had done the same would be okay to Romans.

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eropple
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