[meteorite-list] Old articles in Google News

[Darren Garrison]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:29:35 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:

>Google News announces that it has published old articles up to 200 years old.
>
>I did a quick search on the term "meteorites" and found 20,100 results (including 2800 older than 1950).  A cool way to find old articles and strange testimonies.
>
>The link : http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Very interesting.  Search for "aerolite" if you want to find the old stuff.

Check out this one:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/188730102.html?dids=188730102:188730102&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=NOV+19%2C+1897&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=A+Message+from+Mars.&pqatl=google

The Washington Post (1877-1954) - Washington, D.C.  
Date: Nov 19, 1897 
Start Page: 6 
Document Types: article 
Text Word Count: 106 
 
An aerolite fell upon the earth near Binghamton, N. Y., Sunday morning; at least
it is called an aerolite; but some learned professors, who have examined it
internally, find curious characters on a piece of metal imbedded in it, which
they believe to be a message from the red planet, Mars.