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From: tomczak@harvard.ARPA (Bill Tomczak)
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Subject: Re: BTTF Nov 5, 1955 specialness
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 02:09:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 02:09:59 1985
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In article <588@linus.UUCP> cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas) writes:
>
>On a hunch, was November 5 one of the days that the time traveller in
>H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine" went back in time?  I recall that it was 
>snowing at the end of the movie as his friends all left his house for the
>last time--it might have been November.  This could be the origin of all the
>oblique November 5 references....

Sorry, no.  I know the book was VERY explicit about the date being right
at the turn of the century.  I believe the movie also was fairly clear
about this with many references to Christmas and New year.

Bill Tomczak@harvard.{ARPA, UUCP}