Just this week I was working on the design for the January installment of the “Our Heritage” series I’ve been writing for 3ABN World. This one includes a description of the famous meteor shower that occurred in 1833. It so happened that tonight I picked up the November issue of Smithsonian, and it contained a featurette in the “This Month in History” section about that very event! Talk about coincidences. Turns out that November 13, 2008, is exactly 175 years from the day that event occurred.