
# File: index74-1.txt
# Issue: 208, 1974-03-16, p.29, 30
# Period: 183-208

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# A

Abdul the Damned, eccentric Turkish sultan, 195
Abu Simbel, Egyptian temples saved, 196
actress, career past and present, 206
Aeroplane, series:$
  airliners, 190
  bombers, 189
  fighters, 192
  flying-boats, 188
  freighters, 191
  helicopters, 193
  transport, 191
aircraft, heli-liner idea, 201
Alexander the Great, and father, 196
Alice Springs, Australian desert town, 198
aluminium, mineral, 186
Amsterdam, Netherlands capital, 190
Anasazi Indians, race that vanished, 199
animal life, how upset by Man's activities, 202
Animal Wonderland:$
  ants, 198
  archer fish, 188
  cures for ailments, 201
  dinosaurs, their disappearance, 186
  dragonflies, 184
  frogs, 187
  hedgehog, 183
  hippopotamus, 199
  insects and sounds, 203
  jellyfish, 195
  lamprey, 197
  magpie, 200
  polar bear, 194
  Portuguese man-o-war, 195
  rhinoceros, 196
  shrew, 192
  sleeping and resting, 205-208
  squid, 198
  swan, 193
  toads, 187
Antarctica, as refrigerator for world food, 205
antimony, mineral, 186
ants, life-story, 198
Any Questions?:$
  artery, how it differs from vein, 196
  ball, why it bounces, 200
  billion, what it means, 202
  blood, why it is red, 194
  boomerang, why it returns, 191
  breakers, how caused, 208
  bricks, why they interlock, 186
  catgut, not from cats, 206
  circles, why we walk in, 201
  cubit, its length, 189
  drowning, rising twice, 207
  Earth, age, 188
  eggs, why at Easter, 194
  equinox, what it is, 192
  funny bone, what it is, 208
  germs, what they are, 201
  hair, rate of growth, 184
  Harvest Moon, meaning, 200
  hook, strength of, 202
  horse-power, meaning, 189
  ice, why it floats, 184
  International Date Line, what it is, 203
  knot, in speed, 188
  letters on typewriter, 83
  lightning, strikes twice in same place, 205
  metal, why it stretches, 187
  nettle, how it stings, 195
  oceans, depths, 196
  Punch and Judy, origin, 192
  safety match, how made safe, 184
  ship, why steel one floats, 206
  soap, why it removes dirt, 191
  trees, why they shed leaves, 193
  typewriter letters, 183
  vein, how it differs from artery, 196
  watch, winding backwards, 207
  waves, how caused, 208
APT, new-style British train, 202
Arc de Triomphe, 199
Archaeology:$
  aerial discoveries, 183
  Babylonian excavations, 185
  Elgin Marbles, 184
archer fish, 188
arsenic, mineral, 187
Art, European, series, 196-203
Art, Modern, series, 205-208
Art, Renaissance period, series, 186-191
artery, how it differs from vein, 196
Arthur, King, existence theory, 192
artificial flowers, how to make, 200
asbestos, mineral, 187
Ascari, Alberto and Antonio, strange story of racing drivers, 203
Ashes, cricket trophy, 190
Australia, Lost World Jungle rescue, 202
Azores, mid-Atlantic islands, 188

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# B

Babylon, archaeological discoveries, 185
Balenciaga, Cristobal, fashion designer, 192
ball, why it bounces, 200
Balmain, Pierre, fashion designer, 191
Balzac, Honoré de, French writer, 197
Banvard, John, painter of world's longest picture, 193
barium, mineral, 188
Beaman, Bob, long-jump champion, 207
Berlioz, Hector, eccentric French musician, 196
Bermuda, Atlantic island, 194
beryllium, mineral, 188
Bicycle, history series, 199-200
billion, what it means, 202
bird table, how to make, 201
Birkenhead, HMS, heroism in wreck, 194
bismuth, mineral, 189
black holes, dangers to astronauts, 188
blood, why it is red, 194
Boers, great trek in South Africa, 206
Bonn, West Germany capital, 189
Book of Kells, 183
boomerang, why it returns, 191
Border Cave dwellers, first of human race, 208
brass, history told in, 200
brass rubbings, how to take, 200
breakers, how waves are caused, 208
bricks, why they interlock, 186
Bronté family, 200
Brown, John, slavery abolitionist fact-fiction, 193
Brussels, Belgian capital, 186
Buchan, Alexander, weather man, 200

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# C

cadmium, mineral, 189
Campbell, Malcolm and Donald, 186
Caravaggio, Roman painter, 201
caravan, modern type, 185
carbon dioxide, gas with place in life, 206
Carroll, Lewis, 193
Carson, Squadron Leader, bicycle escape from Germans, 183
car-stamp of Nagaland, 188
catgut, how obtained, 206
Chanel, Coco, fashion designer, 188
Charlemagne, 201
Chimneys, history series, 203-204
china clay, mineral, 190
chinaware, history, 193
Christmas, evergreens, 197
chromium, mineral, 190
circles, why we walk in them, 201
coalminer, career past and present, 206
cobalt, mineral, 191
Cocos Island, treasure mystery, 191
comics, history, 196
Common Market Capitals:$
  Amsterdam, 190
  Bonn, 189
  Brussels, 186
  Copenhagen, 187
  Dublin, 193
  London, 194
  Luxembourg, 191
  Paris, 188
  Rome, 192
Copenhagen, Danish capital, 187
copper, mineral, 191
cormorant, bird used in fishing, 202
Crete, Mediterranean island, 190
Crockett, Davy, fact-fiction of Western hero, 199
Crusoe, Robinson, fact-fiction of story, 194
cryolite, mineral, 192
cubit, old-time measurement, 189
currents, ocean streams, 194
cycle racing, trophies, 192

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# D

Davis Cup, tennis trophy, 191
Deerslayer, The, story, 183-185
Delhi, cycle ride to, 188
De Rougemont, Louis, eccentric liar, 194
Dexter, Timothy, eccentric dealer, 199
diamonds, man-made stones, 199
diatomite, mineral, 192
dinosaurs, disappearance mystery, 186
Dior, Christian, fashion designer, 187
diving, deep-sea pioneers, 183
dolls, world types, 194
Dracula, Count, fact-fiction vampire, 198
dragonfly, life-story, 184
drowning, rising twice to surface, 207
Dublin, Eire capital, 193
Dumas, Alexandre, father and son, 187
Durer, Albrecht, German painter, 200

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# E

Earth, age, 188
Easter Eggs, origin, 194
ECCENTRICS, series:$
  Abdul the Damned, 195
  Balzac, Honoré de, 197
  Banvard, John, 193
  Berlioz, Hector, 196
  De Rougemont, Louis, 194
  Dexter, Timothy, 199
  Ferrari, Philippe von, 202
  Green, Hetty, 198
  Jenkins, Florence, 200
  Painless Parker, 201
  Portland, Duke of, 203
  soprano, world's worst, 200
  Wall Street witch, 198
Eisenstein, Sergei, 199
Elephant Bill, story, 186-191
Elgin, Lord, Parthenon marbles, 184
energy, sources of old and new, 193
equinox, what it is, 192
Eric the Red, and his son, 195
Escape, series:$
  bicycle ride to freedom, 183
  man who escaped hanging, 185
  Thesiger's desert ordeal, 184
European Art, Series:$
  baroque style, 201
  Caravaggio, 201
  Dutch artists, 199
  Florentine artists, 196-197
  Flemish artists, 200
  French painters, 202-203
  German artists, 200
  Venetian artists, 198
European Cup, soccer trophy, 189
Explorers, series:$
  first, 205
  Greeks, 207
  Phoenicians, 206
  Vikings, 208
Eyck, Jan van, Dutch painter, 200

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# F

Fact Behind Fiction:$
  Arthur, King, 192
  Brown, John, 193
  children's stories, 200
  Crockett, Davy, 199
  Crusoe, Robinson, 194
  Dracula, Count, 198
  Man In the Iron Mask, 195
  nursery rhymes, 197
  Prester John, 196
Fairbanks, Douglas, father and son, 191
Falkland Islands, 187
Fashion Designers, series:$
  Balenciaga, Cristobal, 192
  Balmain, Pierre, 191
  Chanel, Coco, 188
  Dior, Christian, 187
  Quant, Mary, 189
  Schiaparelli, 190
  Worth, Charles, 186
Father And Son, Famous, Series:$
  Campbell, Malcolm and Donald, 186
  Dumas, Alexandre, 187
  Eric the Red and Leif Ericsson, 195
  Fairbanks, Douglas, 191
  Masaryk, Thomas and Jan, 190
  Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great, 196
  Pitt, William, 188
  Renoir, Auguste and Jean, 194
  Scipio, Publius, 189
  Strauss, Johann, 192
felspar, mineral, 193
Ferrari, Philippe von, eccentric stamp-collector, 202
Fiji, island-nation, 183
film-making, trick photography and stunts, 202-203
Fisher, George, ghost that led to killer, 201
Fishing, catching methods, 197-203
Fittipaldi, Emerson, Grand Prix champion, 206
Florence, Italian Renaissance, 186
Florence, standard-bearer who saved city, 203
flowers, how to make artificial, 200
fluorspar, mineral, 193
Fort Knox, American gold depository, 193
Fosbury, Dick, high-jump champion, 208
fossils, fish remains in Italian cave, 185
frog, life-story, 187
funny bone, what it is, 208
fur, trading history, 199

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# G

garden, light, how to make, 183
garden plate, how to make, 199
garden pond, how to make, 186
germs, what they are, 201
ghost witness, murderer caught through, 201
giants, existence on Earth, 186
Giorgione, Venetian painter, 198
Giotto, Florentine artist, 196
gold, mineral, 194
gold, trading history, 201
Golden Hinde, replica of Drake's ship, 184
graphite, miner, 195
Great Barrier Reef, creatures of, 199
Green, Hetty, eccentric of Wall Street, 198
greetings card, how to make, 188
gypsum, mineral, 195

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# H

hair, growth rate, 184
Hairstyles, history series, 195-196
Haiti, island-State, 185
Halliburton, Richard, man who copied great deeds, 203
Hals, Frans, Dutch painter, 199
Harvest Moon, what it is, 200
Hatshepsut, queen of Ancient Egypt, 197
Hawaii, America's island State, 186
hedgehog, life-story, 183
heli-liner, aircraft of future, 201
hippopotamus, life-story, 199
hook, strength in one, 202
Horatius, Roman who held the bridge, 202
horse-power, meaning, 189
Horses, Famous, series:$
  Archer, Fred, jockey, 191
  De Leyer and Snowman, 187
  d'Inzeo Brothers' show horses, 186
  El Cid and Babieca, 188
  General Jackson and Little Sorrel, 184
  General Seely and Warrior, 190
  Midnight the Bronco, 183
  Moifaa the steeplechaser, 189
  Mongolian ponies, 185
human race, new light on its beginning, 208

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# I

ice, why it floats, 184
Indians, Anasazi tribes disappearance, 199
insects, millions of species, 185
insects, sounds made by, 203
International Date Line, what it is, 203
iodine, mineral, 196
iron, mineral, 196
islands, man-made idea, 187
Islands Of The World, Series:$
  Azores, 188
  Bermuda, 194
  Crete, 190
  Falklands, 187
  Fiji, 183
  Haiti, 185
  Hawaii, 186
  Madagascar, 192
  Malta, 193
  Rhodes, 195
  St Helena, 189
  Sardinia, 184
  Zanzibar, 191
Isle of Man Tourist trophy, 186
Italian Renaissance, Series:$
  artists of Florence, 186-187
  Machiavelli, 190
  Rome, 189
  Urbino, 188
  Vasari, 190
  Venice, 191
  writers, 190
ivory, history, 196

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# J

jade, precious stone, 185
James, Clifton, General Montgomery's 'double', 198
jeep, Atlantic crossing, 190
jellyfish, Portuguese man-o-war, 195
Jenkins, Florence, eccentric soprano, 200
Jericho, falling walls theories, 205
Jewellery, history series, 192-194
Journey To the Centre of the Earth, story, 196-203
Jupiter, Space probe, 190

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# K

Kells, beautiful book of, 183
killer who caught himself, 206
King's Cup, air race trophy, 184
Kingsley, Charles, 205
kite, how to make, 194
Knights, series:$
  barons, 185
  medieval heroes, 184
  Orders of Knighthood, 183
knot, speed rate, 188
Kohoutek, comet, 190

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# L

lamprey, eel-like fish, 197
Lavoisier, Antoine, 202
lead, mineral, 197
leaves, why tree sheds them, 193
Ledru, Michael, detective-killer who tracked himself, 206
Leif Ericsson, and his father, 195
lifeboat, modern kind, 200
light-garden, how to make, 183
lightning, striking twice in same place, 205
lithium, mineral, 198
London, United Kingdom capital, 194
Lost Dutchman mine, 207
Lost World, Queensland, jungle rescue, 202
lumberjack, timber-felling contests, 197
Luxembourg, State's capital, 191

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# M

Machiavelli, Niccolo, Italian writer, 190
Madagascar, Indian Ocean island, 192
Mad Hatter's Tea-Party, story, 193-194
magnesium, mineral, 198
magpie, life-story, 200
Make It Yourself:$
  artificial flowers, 200
  bird table, 201
  garden on a plate, 199
  garden pond, 186
  greetings card, 188
  kite, 194
  pin-table, 198
  quoits, 187
  record rack, 193
  rockery, 192
  stilts, 189
  toboggan, 190
  tulips picture, 195
Malta, Mediterranean island, 193
Man, length of existence on Earth, 208
Man And His Horse, series:$
  Archer, Fred, jockey, 191
  De Leyer and Snowman, 187
  d'Inzeo Brothers, 186
  El Cid and Babieca, 188
  General Jackson and Little Sorrel, 184
  General Seely and Warrior, 190
  Midnight the Bronco, 183
  Moifaa the steeplechaser, 189
  Mongolian ponies, 185
Mandalay, Burmese city, 197
manganese, mineral, 199
Man In the Iron Mask, fact-fiction story, 195
Mars, spacecraft probe, 207
Masaccio, Florentine artist, 196
Masaryk, Thomas and Jan, 190
measurements, scientific degrees, 192
Medicine, history series, 205-208
memory, people with great memories, 184
mercury, mineral, 199
Mesa Verde, disappearance of Anasazi Indians, 199
metal, why it stretches, 187
mica, mineral, 199
Million-Pound Bank Note, story, 204
Mindanao, Stone Age tribe of, 203
Minerals, ABC series:$
  aluminium, 186
  antimony, 186
  arsenic, 187
  asbestos, 187
  barium, 188
  beryllium, 188
  bismuth, 189
  cadmium, 189
  china clay, 190
  chromium, 190
  cobalt, 191
  copper, 191
  cryolite, 192
  diatomite, 192
  felspar, 193
  fluorspar, 193
  gold, 194
  graphite, 195
  gypsum, 195
  iodine, 196
  iron, 196
  lead, 197
  lithium, 198
  magnesium, 198
  manganese, 199
  mercury, 199
  mica, 199
  molybdenum, 199
  nickel, 200
  nitrates, 200
  petroleum, 200
  phosphorus, 200
  platinum, 201
  potash, 201
  quartz, 201
  tadium, 201
  rock salt, 202
  selenium, 202
  silver, 202
  strontium, 202
  sulphur, 203
  talc, 203
  tin, 203
  titanium, 204
  tungsten, 204
  uranium, 204
  zinc, 204
mini-helicopter, model aircraft sport, 198
mirages, how caused, 202
Modern Art, series, 205-208
molybdenum, mineral, 199
Montgomery, General, strange story of his 'double', 198
Motor-Car, how it works, series, 186-192
Motor-Car, threat to cities and life, 185
Murphy, Dervla, cycle ride to Delhi, 188

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# N

nettle, how it stings, 195
newspaper, development, 184
Niagara Falls, boy's escape from death, 197
nickel, mineral, 200
nitrates, mineral, 200
nitrogen, gas with place in life, 203
Norsemen Myths, series:$
  Balder the Beautiful, 184
  Frithiof's Defiance, 191
  Land of the Nibelungs, 189
  Red Loki and the Giant, 183
  Red Loki's Doom, 185
  Reward For Brave Sigurd, 188
  Sigmund's Revenge, 186
  Strange Fate of Frithiof, 192
  Treasure of the Trolls, 187
  Wrath of Frithiof, 190
nurse, career past and present, 208
nursery rhymes, fact-fiction theories, 197

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# O

oil, trading history, 200
Orient Express, train of adventure, 200

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# P

Painless Parker, eccentric dentist, 201
painting, world's longest, 193
paper, strength through wetness, 196
Paris, French capital, 188
Pathfinders, series:$
  diving men, 183
  newspapermen, 184
  underwater pioneers, 83
perpetual motion, efforts to achieve it, 186
petroleum, mineral, 200
Philip of Macedon, and famous son, 196
phosphorus, mineral, 200
pin-table, how to make, 198
Pioneer 10, Jupiter Space-probe, 190
Pisces, underwater craft, 203
Pitt, William, father and son, 188
planetarium, reveals wonders of the sky, 183
platinum, mineral, 201
polar bear, life-story, 194
Pompeii, eruption that destroyed city, 199
Poe, Edgar Allan, 195
porcelain, history, 193
Portland, eccentric duke of, 203
Portuguese man-o-war, 195
potash, mineral, 201
potato, history, 189
Prester John, fact-fiction legend, 196
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, horse-race, 185
Punch and Judy, origin, 192

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# Q

Quant, Mary, fashion designer, 189
quartz, mineral, 201
Queen of the Equator, Dutch woman explorer, 198
quoits, how to make board, 187

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# R

radium, mineral, 201
railways, British, Advanced Passenger Train type, 202
railways, British, preservation of small lines, 195
ravens, in Tower of London, 184
record rack, how to make, 193
Rembrandt, Dutch painter, 199
Renaissance Giants, series, 186-191
Renoir, Auguste and Jean, 194
rhinoceros, life-story, 196
Rhodes, Greek island, 195
rice, food eaten by half world, 192
Robin Hood, fact-fiction legend, 200
Rome, Italian capital, 192
rockery, how to make, 192
rock salt, mineral, 202
rust, effect on steel and iron, 194
Ryder Cup, golfing trophy, 183

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# S

safety match, what makes it safe, 184
St. Helena, Pacific island, 189
Sardinia, Mediterranean island, 184
Samuels, Joseph, man who could not be hanged, 185
Schiaparelli, Elsa, fashion designer, 190
Scipio, Publius, father and son, 189
sea-water, conversion to drinking water, 198
seeds, how Nature distributes them, 184
selenium, mineral, 202
ship, why steel one floats, 206
Ships Of The Seven Seas, series:$
  clippers, 208
  explorers' ships, 205
  small craft, 206
  warships, 207
shorthand, inventors of writing system, 195
shrew, life-story, 192
silk, how it first reached Europe, 194
silver, mineral, 202
skating, world championship trophies, 188
slavery, trading history, 196
soap, why it removes dirt, 191
soprano, world's worst, 200
South Africa, history series:$
  Boer trekkers, 206
  Boer wars, 207
  discovery and settlement, 205
  gold and diamonds, 208
Spa, health-giving waters, series, 197-198
Space, black holes danger to astronauts, 188
Space, danger rays from Outer Space, 201
Space, joint American-Russian venture, 195
speed records, water, 195
spice, trading history, 197
Sport, Great Moments, series:$
  Beaman, Bob, 207
  Fittipaldi, Emerson, 206
  Fosbury, Dick, 208
  Tourischeva, Ludmilla, 205
squid, life-story, 198
stained-glass windows, history, 197
Stamp Stories, Series:$
  Bermudian rarities, 186
  car-stamp of Nagaland, 188
  divers of Pentecost Island, 183
  Jersey railway, 196
  Lawrence of Arabia's design, 191
  mistakes of value, 195
  Nicaragua's lost canal, 185
  Pentecost Island divers, 183
  pottery pattern, 189
  typewritten stamps, 184
star, life-cycle, 189
staring, effect upon man and animals, 183
stilts, how to make, 189
Stolen Letter, The, story, 195
Stone Age, tribe discovered on Mindanao, 203
Stories:$
  Deerslayer, The, 183-185
  Elephant Bill, 186-191
  Journey To the Centre of the Earth, 196-203
  Mad Hatter's Tea-Party, 193-194
  Million-Pound Bank Note, 204
  Stolen Letter, The, 195
  Westward Ho! 205-208
Strauss, Johann, father and son, 192
strontium, mineral, 202
sulphur, mineral, 203
swan, life-story, 193

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# T

talc, mineral, 203
tea, trading history, 198
teacher, career past and present, 207
telex, message-machine, 199
Then... And Now, series:$
  actress, 205
  coalminer, 206
  nurse, 208
  teacher, 207
Thesiger, Wilfred, desert ordeal, 184
tidal waves, side-effects of eruption, 200
timber, lumberjacks felling contests, 197
tin, mineral, 203
trading history, 195
Tinne, Alexine, Dutch woman explorer, 198
titanium, mineral, 204
Titian, Venetian painter, 198
toad, life-story, 187
toboggan, how to make, 190
Top Trophies, Series:$
  Ashes, 190
  cycle racing, 192
  Davis Cup, 191
  European Cup, 189
  Isle of Man TT, 186
  King's Cup, 184
  Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, 185
  Ryder Cup, 183
  skating, 188
  Wimbledon tennis, 187
totem-pole, history, 201
Tourischeva, Ludmilla, Russian gymnast champion, 205
Trade Routes, series:$
  fur, 199
  gold, 201
  oil, 200
  silk, 194
  slavery, 196
  spice. 197
  tea, 198
  tin, 195
trains, Advanced Passenger Train for Britain, 202
preservation of small, 195
tree, why it sheds leaves, 193
tsunami, tidal waves caused by eruptions, 200
tulips, how to make card picture, 195
tungsten, mineral, 204
typewriter, how letters were arranged, 183

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# U

Udet, Ernst, German war ace, 187
underwater pioneers, 183
submarine Pisces, 203
United Nations, series:$
  aviation organisation, 207
  creation and growth, 205
  education, science, culture, 206
  health, 208
uranium, mineral, 204
Urbino, art rivalry with Florence, 188

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# V

Vasari, Giorgio, Italian writer, 190
vein, how it differs from artery, 196
Venice, Renaissance glories, 191
Vermeer, Jan, Dutch painter, 199
Verne, Jules, 196
Viking Lander, Mars spacecraft, 207
Vikings, early explorers, 208
vitamins, human need, 191
Volcanoes, series:$
  eruptive power, 201
  good things from eruptions, 202
  Paricutin, Mexico, eruption, 198
  Pompeii eruption, 199
  tidal waves, 200
  tsunami, waves, 200

# ---------------------------------------
# W

Wall Street witch, eccentric Hetty Green, 198
watch, winding backwards, 207
water, health-giving spas, series, 197-198
speed records, 195
world need for more, 198
Watteau, Antoine, French painter, 202
waves, how caused, 208
Westward Ho!, story, 205-208
whaling, catching ocean giants, 203
Whittington, Dick, fact-fiction of legendary hero, 200
Wimbledon tennis trophies, 187
Windows, history series, 201-202
World Health Organisation, 208
Worth, Charles, fashion designer, 186

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# X

X-rays, radiation from Outer Space, 201

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# Z

Zanzibar, Indian Ocean island, 191
zinc, mineral, 204
