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More from Prestwick House Literature Grammar and Writing Vocabulary Reading Literary Touchstone Classics College and Career Readiness: Writing Vocabulary Power Plus Reading Informational Texts Literature Teaching Units Grammar for Writing Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots Reading Literature TABLE OF CONTENTS Three Sides of the Bermuda Triangle .................................................................................................1 The Marvel of Monarchs ....................................................................................................................9 Aliens at Roswell? ............................................................................................................................17 The Year without a Summer .............................................................................................................25 Who Was King Arthur? ....................................................................................................................33 Stonehenge .......................................................................................................................................41 The Great Pyramids of Giza .............................................................................................................49 Who Wrote “Shakespeare”? .............................................................................................................57 “Nessie” ............................................................................................................................................65 Japan’s Atlantis .................................................................................................................................73 Where is Amelia Earhart? .................................................................................................................81 The Amazing Neutrino .....................................................................................................................89 Roanoke, The Lost Colony ...............................................................................................................97 Creatures from the Abyss ...............................................................................................................105 The Speed of Light .........................................................................................................................113 Stone Age Surgery ..........................................................................................................................121 Bigfoot ............................................................................................................................................129 Vocabulary ......................................................................................................................................137 Aliens at roswell? The Marvel of the Monarch Butterfly GPS Here Comes the Sun Compass “RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER on Ranch Brazel could have been right. What he saw If you wanted to travel to a precise location some- For centuries, humans have used compasses to in Roswell Region” ran the headline in the Roswell may not have been a typical weather balloon. whereDaily far Recordaway—a on smallJuly 8, forest 1947. 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Unlike us, however, ingto monarchsomeone butterfly. who had It’sseen morning. ordinary It’s weather time to On June 14th, a cattle rancher, Mac Brazel, was balloons before. monarchs won’t get lost twenty minutes after take to the skies and continue the long, difficult walking with his eight-year-old son and saw that Even if the mysterious debris could be ex- leaving home. journey to Mexico. The sun appears in the east, something had fallen on his property. When he plained by Project MOGUL, what could account Everyinvestigated autumn, the millions wreckage of onmonarch July 4th ,butter he found- offor course, the alien so in bodies order peopleto head believe south, wereyou need found to flies whatmigrate he acrossdescribed North as “rubberAmerica strips,in what tinfoil, Lin- a flywith to the the wreckage? right of it. 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Then, earth’sWas magnetic the gullible field. public easily misled by a lying it hitsThen, you: in What 1956, if the a KC-97Gsun isn’t visible?airplane Howcrashed will government? Recently acquired information may I nearmake Roswell. it to Michoacán? A fire in the cabin had killed the hold the answers. crew, and the bodies that were removed from the It’s a good thing you have a backup plan. 1717 Vocabulary in Context: Mysteries, Curiosities & Wonders wreckage were barely recognizable as humans. Another event that often goes unreported and When they were taken to be autopsied, even the corroborates Brazel’s story is the testimony of nurses in the hospital thought the dead men were Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot, Roswell residents who The Marvel of the Monarch extraterrestrials. If a nurse could make such a saw a UFO in the sky around the