
# File: index75-1.txt
# Issue: 258, 1975-03-01, p.20-21
# Period: 235-258

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# A

aerobatics, first civilian team, 242
aircraft, aerobatics team, 242
aircraft, fuel-saving techniques, 254
airships, revival signs, 251
Aldrin, Edwin, Moon landing, 235
allergy, strange effects, 236
American Civil War, 258
Ancient Greece, boxing champion in, 258
Ancient Greece, its Golden Age, 241
Ancient Greece, Persian Wars, 245
Andersen, Hans, 256
Animals, air transportation, 244
giraffe present to Paris, 235
Animal Families:$
  elephant, 256
  gorilla, 257
  lion, 255
  wolf, 258
ANIMAL WONDERLAND:$
  animals that look alike, 252-254
  butterfly, distances flown, 235
  moth, distances flown, 235
Any Questions?:$
  atom, what it is 245
  bird, fastest flying, 245
  Dead Sea, why it is dead, 244
  heart, where it is, 244
  proteins, what they are, 244
  voltage, electrical measure, 245
Apollo 13, Moon craft rescue, 246
Arabia, traditional uniforms, 258
Argentina, descriptive, 248
Armstrong, Neil, Moon landing, 235
Arnold, Benedict, betrayal of American forces, 248
asphalt, Trinidad lake, 235
Assyrians, early civilisation, 242
atom, what it is, 245
auk, extinct bird, 242

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# B

bagpipes, history, 235
Baikal, Siberian lake, 242
Bear Island, shipwreck rescue, 245
beetles, timber destroyers, 238
Bells, history series, 249-251
Betrayers:$
  Arnold, Benedict, 248
  Brutus, 242
  Delilah, 245
  Dreyfus, Captain, 244
  Ephialtes, 251
  Esterhazy, Count, 244
  Judas Escariot, 249
  Philby, Kim, 246
  Quisling, Vidkun, 243
  Stanley, Lord, 247
bird, fastest flying, 245
Birds That Cannot Fly:$
  auk, 242
  cassowary, 244
  kagu, 242
  kakapo, 242
  kiwi, 247
  moa, 242
  ostrich, 243
  penguin, 246
  thea, 245
  Stewart Island wren, 247
  takahe, 247
  weka, 247
  wren of Stewart Island, 247
Black Arrow, The, story, 252-258
blacksmith, ancient craft, 236
Bolivia, descriptive, 250
bonsai, miniature trees art, 238
Boston Tea Party, 241
Botha, Louis, Boer commander 241
bottle-collecting, old: and historic bottles, 235
bouillabaisse, French dish, 248
bows and arrows, ancient craft, 237
Brabazon, aircraft that failed, 236
Brazil, descriptive, 249
bread, history, 251
bridges natural formations, 250
Burma, descriptive, 237
butterfly, flying powers, 235

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# C

Caetano, Count, fake alchemist, 240
canyons, natural bridges across, 250
cassowary, flightless bird, 244
Cavanaugh, Kit, woman soldier, 254
caves, Kentucky s Mammoth Cave, 241
Cervantes, Miguel de, 258
Chartwell Manor, Churchill's country home, 245
Chennault, Claire, flying soldier of fortune, 255
Chile, descriptive, 248
Chinese Civil War, 257
Chopin, Frederic, 256
Christmas, Lee, American soldier of fortune, 254
cities, wild-life in, 245
civilisation, dawning and development, series, 238-253
Civil Wars:$
  American, 258
  Chinese, 257
  English, 254
  Mexican, 255
  Spanish, 256
coinage, strange kinds, 241
Cole, Horace de Vere, practical joker, 251
Colombia, descriptive, 252
Commanders:$
  Botha, Louis, 241
  Joseph, Red Indian chief, 240
  Lee, Robert E., 237
  MacArthur, Douglas, 239
  Marlborough, Duke of, 236
  Napoleon, 235
  Wellington, Duke of, 238
Constantinople, early civilisation, 250
cotton, history, 258
Country Crafts:$
  bagpipes, 235
  blacksmith, 236
  bows and arrows, 237
Cowboy Hall of Fame, 247
crépe suzette, French dish, 254
Criqui, Eugene, boxer with iron jaw, 255
Curie, Marie and Pierre, 247

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# D

Danube, giant dam, 238
Dawn Of Civilisation:$
  Ancient Greece's Golden Age, 241
  Assyrians, 242
  China, 251
  Constantinople, 250
  Etruscans, 243
  Greek-Persian Wars, 245
  Hellenistic period, 246
  Hittites, 240
  Holy Roman Empire, 253
  India, 248
  Islam, 252
  Pharaohs, 239
  Persians, 244, 249
  Roman, 247
  Sumerian, 238
Dead Sea, why dead, 244
Debruin, Jean, British Legionnaire, 250
Delilah, betrayal of Samson, 245
Denmark, Guards' uniforms, 252
Diamond Jim, railroad millionaire, 244
Dickens, Charles, 255
Dishes Of Many Lands:$
  bouillabaisse, 248
  crépe suzette, 254
  pasta, 250
  poule au pot, 251
  roast beef, 249
  spaghetti, 250
  steak tartare, 252
  turkey, 253
dodo, extinct bird, 242
dredger, rescue of capsized, 247
Dreyfus, Captain, betrayal charges, 244
Dunkirk, rescue of troops, 244

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# E

Eastman, Georgé, camera inventor, 237
Ecuador, descriptive, 251
elephant, family life, 256
emu, flightless bird, 244
English Civil War, 254
Ephialtes, betrayal of Spartans, 251
Esterhazy, Count, part in Dreyfus betrayal, 244
Etruscans, early civilisation, 243

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# F

farming, methods of future, 245
Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination at Sarajevo, 242
fever bark tree, malaria cure, 257
fingerprints, criminal who left none, 235
fire-fighting, new methods, 239
fish, distances travelled, 239
fish, hospital in Japan, 237
fish, sounds made by, 250
Flying Tigers, fighting squadron, 255
fossils, rock remains, 254
frankincense, what it was, 249
freezing, old and new methods, 244
French Guiana, descriptive, 247
friction, force which governs movement, 242
fuel, new kinds for aircraft, 254

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# G

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, Italian soldier of fortune, 253
Gendarmerie, uniforms, 249
giraffe, present from Egypt to Paris, 235
gladiators, heroes of Ancient Rome, 240
Gogh, Vincent van, forged paintings, 254
gorilla, family life, 257
Gotham, village of madmen, 249
grass, how adapted for food, 255
Guardsman, traditional uniforms, 248-258
Guyana, descriptive, 247

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# H

Hamburg, German port, 257
Handel, George, 257
handicapped people, how science helps, 254
Hastings, battle which changed history, 252
heart, position in body, 244
helicopters, crash escape training, 251
Hellenes, early civilisation, Hemingway, Ernest, 251
History: Moments That Changed:$
  Armada fireships 243
  Battle of Hastings, 252
  Boston Tea Party, 241
  Mohammed's flight from Mecca, 253
  Prussians at Waterloo, 250
  radium discovery, 247
  rocket missiles, 244
  Russian revolution, 248
  Sarajevo, Archduke's assassination, 242
  Whitney's cotton machine, 246
Hittites, early civilisation, 240-242
Holy Grail, King Arthur's search for, 242
Holy Roman Empire, effect on civilisation, 253
Hong Kong, Chinese port, 252
Hong Kong, defence by aged soldiers, 253
horses, man who tamed them by words, 237
hovercraft, racing, 258
hovercraft, types, 239
Humber, river bridge, 241
hydrofoil, sea-going types, 246

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# I

India, early civilisation, 248
Indian Mutiny, princess leader against British, 243
International Rescue:$
  Apollo Moon craft, 246
  Bear Island shipwreck, 245
  dredger which capsized, 247
  Dunkirk, 244
  Lengede Mine, 241
  mid-air escape, 239
  Moon spacecraft, 246
  Mount Kenya climber, 242
  Pisces III, 238
  Solent yachtsman, 243
  wild-life of Surinam, 240
Islam, early civilisation, 252

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# J

Joseph, Red Indian commander, 240
Judas Iscariot, betrayal of Jesus, 249
Julius Caesar, assassination, 242

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# K

kayu, flightless bird, 242
kakapo, flightless bird, 242, 247
kaleidoscope, colourful toy, 255
Kentucky, Mammoth Cave, 241
kiwi, flightless bird, 247
Kurile Islands, volcanoes of, 240

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# L

laser beam, power of light, 237
Lebeau, lawyer friend of Red Indians, 257
Lee, Robert E., American Civil War commander, 237
Lengede, mine rescue, 241
Leningrad, Russian port, 255
Leyland Lifeliner, hospital on wheels, 250
lion, family life, 255
Liszt, Franz, 255
London, Jack, 257
London, English port, 258
Lufbery, Raoul, French soldier of fortune, 252

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# M

MacArthur, Douglas, American commander 239
Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, 243
Maginot Line, French defence system 235
malaria, fever bark tree cure, 257
Manaus, theatre fiasco, 237
Man with the Iron Jaw, 255
Marlborough, Duke of, commander, 236
Mexico, civil war, 255
Mexico, Guards' uniforms, 256
mirrors, history, 237
moa, extinct. bird, 242
models, use in scientific ideas, 248
Mohammed, flight from Mecca, 253
money, strange kinds, 241
Moon, first landing, 235
Moon, spacecraft rescue, 246
Moon, strange beliefs about, 243
Morris, William, artistic designer, 249
moray eel, life story, 246
moth, flying powers, 235
Mother Ross, woman soldier, 254
motor-car, water-power fuel, 252
Mount Kenya, rescue of climber, 242
mouse nest, lined by Mongol Empire manuscript, 242
Mursilis, Hittite leader, 240
Musicians:$
  Chopin, Frederic, 256
  Handel, George, 257
  Liszt, Franz, 255
  Paganini, Niccolo, 254
  Strauss, Johann, 258
Muslim, early civilisation, 252
myrrh, what it is, 249

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# N

Napoleon, French commander, 235
Navajo Indians, American school for young, 238
New York, American port, 253
Nightingale, Florence, 236
Norway, Guards' uniforms, 252

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# O

Odyssey, The, story, 238-251
oil-tanker, cargo discharged at sea port, 250
Old Lady of the Tay, warship of Napoleonic times, 254
opal, precious mineral, 255
Osaka, Japanese port, 256
ostrich, flightless bird, 243

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# P

Paganini, Niccolo, 254
Panjandrum, war-weapon fiasco, 238
Paraguay, descriptive, 250
penguin, flightless bird, 246
Penn, William, Quaker colony in America, 257
Persians, early civilisations, 244, 249
Persians, Greek wars, 245
Persians, Hellenistic period, 246
Peru, descriptive, 251
Pharaohs, early Egyptian rulers, 239
Philby, Kim, British-Russian spy, 246
Pisa, Leaning Tower, 235
Pisces III, rescue of mini-sub, 238
Pizarro, Francisco, raid on treasure of the Incas, 256
Plants That Changed The World:$
  cotton, 258
  fever bark tree, 257
  grass,and wheat, 255
  rubber, 256
Portmeirion, Welsh wonder village, 236
Ports Of The World:$
  Hamburg, 257
  Hong Kong, 252
  Leningrad, 255
  London, 258
  New York, 253
  Osaka, 256
  Sydney, 254
poule au pot, French dish, 251
proteins, what they are, 244
Prussian Guards, uniforms, 255

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# Q

Quisling, Vidkun, Norway's betrayer, 243

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# R

radium, discovery by Curies, 247
railways, jet-age trains, 240
railways, track-laying trains, 245
rainbow, superstitions about, 235
Rani of Jhansi, princess leader in Indian Mutiny, 243
Rarey, John S., tamer of horses by words, 237
Red Indians, French lawyer friend, 257
Red Indians, Joseph, tribal commander, 240
Red Indians, Sioux ghost-dancers, 250
reflex action, how it works, 239
refrigeration, old and new methods, 244
rhea, flightless bird, 245
Richard III, betrayal by the Stanleys, 247
Roanoke Island, English colony in America, 265
roast beef, English dish 249
rocket missiles, history, 244
Rogers, Woodes, buccaneer-governor of Bahamas, 258
Roman Empire, early civilisation, 247, 253
Rome, gladiators of Ancient, 240
Room of Miracles, science aids handicapped people, 254
rubber, plant's development, 256
Rupert, Prince, 256
Russia, Guards' uniforms, 253
Russian revolution, 248

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# S

salmon, distances travelled, 239
salt, history, 235
Sandeman, Arthur, his charge against Japanese, 241
shopping precinct, modern town system, 236
Siberia, volcanoes in, 240
Sioux Indians, ghost-dancers, 250
slate, Welsh mines revival, 237
Snell, Hannah, woman marine, 258
Snowy Mountains, Australian hydro scheme, 256
Soldiers Of Fortune:$
  Chennault, Claire, 255
  Christmas, Lee, 254
  Debruin, Jean, 250
  Flying Tigers, 255
  Garibaldi, 253
  Hemingway, Ernest, 251
  Lufbery, Raoul, 252
  Rupert, Prince, 256
  Wallenstein, Albrecht, 257
South America:$
  Argentina, 248
  Bolivia, 250
  Brazil, 249
  Chile, 248
  Colombia, 252
  Ecuador, 251
  French Guiana, 247
  Guyana, 247
  Paraguay, 250
  Peru, 251
  Surinam, 247
  Uruguay, 248
  Venezuela, 252
Space, cost of research, 248
spaghetti, Italian dish, 250
Spanish Armada, fireships' havoc, 243
Spanish Civil War, 255
Spanish Guards, uniforms, 257
Spartans, betrayal by Greek, 251
spider, species, 236
Stanley, Lord, betrayal of Richard III, 247
Statue of Liberty, 256
steak tartare, Mongolian dish, 252
steamboats, history, 257
Stewart Island wren, extinct bird, 247
stock car racing, 247
Stories:$
  Black Arrow, The, 252-258
  Odyssey, The, 238-251
stork, life story, 249
Strauss, Johann, 258
Sumer, cradle of civilisation, 238
Sun, underground telescope for studying, 257
Superdrome, vast arena in Louisiana, 240
super-tanker, sea port system for oil discharge, 250
Surinam, descriptive, 247
Surinam, wild-life rescue 240
Sweden, Guards' uniforms, 252
Swiss Guards, uniforms, 254
Swords, history, 243-246
Sydney, Australian port, 254

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# T

telescope, underground solar instrument, 257
Tesla, Nikola, eccentric inventor, 248
Theagenes, boxing champion in Ancient Greece, 258
They Went To America:$
  Penn, William, 257
  Pizarro, Francisco, 256
  Raleigh, Sir Walter, 255
  Rogers, Woodes, 258
torpedoes, wartime flying ones, 236
towns, modern shopping centre, 236
towns, wild-life in, 245
trains, jet-age types, 240
track-laying, 245
Trinidad, asphalt lake, 235
trout, farming-methods, 236

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# U

Unicorn, old warship on River Tay, 254
Uniforms, Traditional:$
  Arabian, 258
  Asiatic, 254
  British Guardsmen, 248
  Dutch Guards, 250
  French Gendarmerie, 249
  Mexican, 256
  Prussian, 255
  Scandinavian, 252
  Soviet Guards, 253
  Spanish, 257
  Swiss Guards, 251
Uruguay, descriptive, 248

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# V

Velasquez, Loreta, woman soldier, 239
Venezuela, descriptive, 252
Viking Voyager, rescue of mini-sub, 238
Virginia, Raleigh's American colony, 255
voltage, electrical measure, 245

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# W

Wacker, Otto, his Van Gogh forgeries, 254
Wallenstein, Albrecht, soldier of fortune, 257
water, content in food, 256
Waterloo, Prussian march in wrong direction 250
waxworks, modelling art, 243
weather, efforts to control, 253
weathervane, history, 253
weka, flightless bird, 247
Wellington, Duke of, commander, 238
White Elephants:$
  Brabazon aircraft 236
  Maginot Line, 235
  Manaus Theatre, 237
  Panjandrum rocket weapon, 238
Whitney, Eli, cotton spinning machine, 246
wind, why it changes, 246
windmill, new uses, 236
wolf, family life 258
wool, pure and synthetic, 235
Wovoka, Red Indian chief and his ghost dancers, 250
wren, extinct species, 247
Writers, Famous:$
  Andersen, Hans, 256
  Cervantes, Miguel de, 258
  London, Jack, 257
