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Here on this spot, December 13, 1795 fell from the atmosphere an extraordinary stone.
In breadth twenty-eight inches, in length thirty-six inches and whose weight was fifty-six pounds.
This column in memory of it was erected by Edward Topham, 1799
The American science fiction author Philip José Farmer posited that this event caused genetic mutation in some people who were passing by at the time. Their enhanced genes led to the extraordinary abilities of their descendants, who include: Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, James Bond, Lord Peter Wimsey, Professor Moriarty, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Kinsey MilhoneSue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. Her best known works are a chronological series of mystery novels set in and around the fictional town of Santa Teresa, California. All novels of the series ar, Richard HannayThe Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by John Buchan, first published in 1915. It is one of a number of Buchan's works to feature Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous habit of getting himself out of sticky situa, Charlie ChanCharlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-Hawaiian detective created by Earl Derr Biggers. He is the hero of a number of books and dozens of movies. At first a sergeant (but later promoted) in the Honolulu Police Department, he and his wife have eleven children, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and John ShaftShaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective John Shaft who fights the black mob, and then the white mob. It stars Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman. The m.
Farmer's extended family of superheros and villains are now known as the Wold Newton familyThe Wold Newton family is a literary conceit derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer. Farmer suggested in two fictional "biographies" of fictional characters Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apoc, and the concept has been elaborated upon by many other writers.