Mathematician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whiston" id="mwOQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Whiston">William Whiston</a>'s predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.<sup about="#mwt38" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_16#cite_note-6" id="mwOg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwOw">[6]</span></a></sup>
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