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A single experience of this awful convulsion of the elements suffices to fasten the memory of its occurrence upon the mind with such a dreadful force that no effort can efface the remembrance of it. The destructive violence of this storm exceeds in its power, fierceness, and grandeur all other phenomena of the atmosphere.
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The people of the United States are no longer strangers to that dreaded aerial monster, the Tornado.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Born:
April 11, 1854
Died:
November 24, 1943
(aged 89)
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John Park Finley was an American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively.
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