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1. Title:   \i Silver Lake Leader\i0
Page:   Tony Kadlec, "Pavucina Corner - Its Not Easy Being Green," Aug 19, 2010, online archives.
Author:   Minnesota. Silver Lake.
Publication:   Aug 19, 2010

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a. Note:   John was head of the Physics Department at University of Minnesota, and then Yale University. See Who is Who in America, Vol. 3, pp. 599, 949.
  Invented the Zeleny electroscope in 1911.
  A Rain of Insects
 Mr. John Zeleny witnessed a peculiar, unexplained event in 1897. In a letter printed in a 1932 edition of Science magazine, Zeleny described a luminous, cumulus-type cloud that drifted over Hutchinson, Minnesota from the east. "It shone with a uniform, steady, vivid, whitish light and passed directly over the town," Zeleny wrote. "When the cloud was overhead, a great shower of insects descended to earth covering the ground all around to the number of about 50 to 100 per square foot." Upon examination, the insects proved to be a common type of bug of the species hemiptera. Zeleny also reported a second event that took place that same year but in Macerata, Italy. This time, out of blood-red clouds precipitated thousands of seeds unfamiliar to locals


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