Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Mystery of Crop Circles

It was a moonlit night of 1972. Two Englishmen, Arthur Shuttlewood and Bryce Bond, driven by the severalreports of sight of the strange unidentified flying craft, were sitting on the slope of Star Hillnear Warminster, England, hoping to catch a glimpse of it. But instead of the UFO, what they witnessedthat night was much more thrilling to them, to the logical world as well. Nearly a hundred feet away theysaw an imprint take shape, a large circular area of plants that collapsed like a lady opening...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Stonehenge

This time it is England friends. Stonehenge, a World Heritage site eight miles north of Salisbury in Wiltshire, is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments. The reason it has such a name is that it is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. English word ‘stan’ means stone and ‘hencg’ means hinge. More than nine hundred stone rings exist there, and archaeologists estimate that twice that number may originally have been built. Though it is nearly...

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

El Dorado: The Golden Mystery

In the sixteenth century Europeans presumed that somewhere deep in South America was a vast city called El Dorado that contained unimaginable mineral riches, mainly gold. This presumption started when the conquistadors were destroying and looting the ancient cultures of the Aztecs and Incas. An amazing rumour was told to them by native tribesmen. They said that there was a race, deep in the jungle, whose king was covered with gold dust and who swam in a golden lake. It was the story of ‘El Dorado’(The...