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Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated

Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in […]

Gamwell sees echoes of Mitchell’s dark stars, for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom,” […]