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A fact from Historically significant lunar eclipses appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 May 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a lunar eclipse enabled Christopher Columbus to trick the indigenous people of Jamaica into resuming supplying food to him and his crew while they were stranded there?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/May.

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What's a "lost Ethan"?

Currently the lead paragraph includes:

Throughout history lunar eclipses have been held to be responsible for such circumstances as lost Ethans ....

What's a "lost Ethan"? Why should anyone care? If this can't be answered well, the reference to "lost Ethan" should be removed. Oaklandguy (talk) 06:14, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it was vandalised by 64.188.238.24 (talk · contribs) on 2017-05-03. Thanks for highlighting - Ninney (talk) 06:33, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi enyone who uses wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.113.155.58 (talk) 14:27, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]