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The encyclopedia was first published in the 1960s, revised in 1976, and revised again in 1996 when the material expanded so much that it was divided into two volumes. The articles can be divided into six main categories: Church History, Church Organization and Operation, Institutions, Biographies, Beliefs and Practices, and Miscellaneous Topics. Definitions are required to explain various names...

FALLING OF THE STARS. A phrase used of “falling stars,” or meteor showers, especially of the great shower of Leonid meteors seen in America Nov. 12–13, 1833, the most spectacular star shower on record. (The Leonids were visible in the Eastern Hemisphere in major showers of lesser magnitude in 1866 and again in the Western in 1867.) These meteors, because of their preeminence and their timing, were taken by many Millerites and by Seventh-day Adventists as fulfilling certain Bible prophecies of signs
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