by Stacy Liberatore at Daily Mail
The Flower Moon will bloom in the night sky this week and dazzle the world for three days.
The moon will appear full at 9:35am ET Thursday and reach its peak 50 minutes after the sun goes down.
The term ‘flower moon’ also marked the beginning of the Reign of Terror against the Osage Nation in the 1920s when white men murdered members of the tribe to inherit their oil assets.
The historical events inspired the 2017 book, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ written by journalist David Grann that was later turned into a Martin Scorses film.
The Flower Moon coincides with the flowers blooming in May, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
And it is also called a ‘Mother’s Moon’, ‘Milk Moon’ or ‘Corn Planting Moon.’
Native Americans named the celestial event as they knew it was time to start planting crops.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac,…
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