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During this week in 1871, the worst forest fire in US history occurred. Fires driven by drought and hurricane force winds burned 2,000 square miles in a day or two – and killed more than 1,000 people around Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
In 1871 people were too intelligent to believe that self-mutilation would alter the weather, but mankind has digressed to a pathetic state of superstition in 2013.
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