Think pandemics are bad? Prepare for the main event – The Times

Standing beneath the skies of Nottinghamshire, one Times letter writer said that it was as if night had turned to day. In Preston, another correspondent spoke of luminous waves that rolled up in quick succession bright enough to cast an eerie and flickering shadow.
Twelve hours later, on the other side of the world, an Australian miner was yet more poetic about what, for him, were the Southern Lights.
A scene of almost unspeakable beauty presented itself, he said, recalling that night in Septe…

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