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McRainy

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Heavy cloud (first in two months?) so nothing in London town.

Cheered by reading this story of how a lunar eclipse saved Christopher Columbus: https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2018/jul/26/total-lunar-eclipse-2018-how-to-see-the-blood-moon-and-the-science-behind-it

In Mark Twain's  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courrt, the protagonist is saved by knowlege of a solar eclipse and granted power and influence. Seems Columbus was perhaps able to do the same to get one over on the Jamaicans, finding details of a forthcoming eclipse after being shipwrecked.

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