100 most unexplained things on the planet
Claybourne, Anna2201
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Find out who fights off killer creatures by spraying acid-filled blood from its eyes. From the depths of the sea to the heights of Nepal, kids can discover weird facts from the Yeti & Bermuda Triangle to spontaneous combustion, telekinetic powers & more.
Main title:
100 most unexplained things on the planet / by Anna Claybourne
Author:
Imprint:
Gosford Scholastic Australia 2014
Collation:
112 pages colour illustrations
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Upper primarySecondary
Contents:
Introduction -- Yeti: Bigfoot -- Loch Ness Monster: Lake Champlain Monster -- Bunyip: Kraken -- Digonek: Minhocao -- Mongolian death wom: Orang pendek -- Mothman: Mermaids -- Bermuda Triangle: Sailing stories -- Taos hum: Giant footprint -- Nan Madol: Skeleton Lake -- Stonehenge: Gobekli Tepe -- Atlantis: Yonaguni Monument -- Costa Rica stone spheres: Nazca lines -- Walls of Saksaywaman: Easter Island statues -- Pyramids of Giza: The Sphinx -- Saqqara Bird: Baigong pipes -- Antikythera mechanism: Baghdad batteries -- Oakville blobs: Star jelly -- Ball lightning: Flying saucer clouds -- Red rain of Kerala: Animal rain -- Earthquake lights: Naga fireballs -- Paulding light: Crop circles -- Out-of-body experiences: Sliders -- Psychokinesis: Telepathy -- ESP: Spontaneous human combustion -- Borley Rectory: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall -- Myrtles Plantation: Rose Hall -- The Stanley Hotel: Winchester Mystery House -- Abraham Lincoln: The Flying Dutchman -- Theatre Royal ghost: Tower of London ghosts -- Glamis Castle: Ballygally Castle -- Edinburgh Vaults: Knighton Gorges Manor -- Faces of Belmez: Faces of SS Watertown -- Amelia Earhart: Flight 19 -- Mary Celeste: Eilean Mor mystery -- Phineas Gage: Fabrice Muamba -- Vesna Vulovic: Juliane Koepcke -- Harrison Okene: Paul Templer -- Lubbock lights: Westall landing -- Belgian UFO wave: Roswell incident -- Betty and Barney Hill: Allagash abductions -- Linda Napolitano: Rendlesham Forest UFO -- Linear A: Rongorongo -- Voynich manuscript: Rohonc codex -- Wow! signal: Moon illusion -- Placebo effect: Deja vu -- Why do we yawn?: Why do we dream? -- Origin of life: Life on other planets -- Monarch migrations: Period cicadas -- Gravity: Matter -- Time: Consciousness -- Glossary.
ISBN:
9781743627822 (paperback)
Dewey class:
001.944 ONE
Local class:
001.944
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
79604
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 001.944 ONE | pbkAvailable |