Gapers Block has ceased publication.

Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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If it wasn't Mrs. O'Leary's cow, might it have been ...a comet? A discredited theory proposes that remnants of Biela's Comet were the cause of the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin in 1871. (Thanks, Ron!)

 
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