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angles to trick people’s brains into thinking everything looks crooked and distorted.
Studies show: The three most dangerous foods to eat in a car are coffee, tacos, and chili.
There are similar “mystery spots” all over the United States. Almost all of them (like the Oregon Vortex) opened in the 1930s as cheap roadside attraction to thrill Depression-era travelers. Most of them have a similar hook: single-room shacks on a hillside that are “beyond the realm of science.” Check out one near you…if you dare:
•The Mystery Spot: Santa Cruz, California
•Confusion Hill: Piercy, California
•The Mystery Spot: St. Ignace, Michigan
•The Mystery Hill: Marblehead, Ohio
•The Mystery Shack: Maggie Valley, North Carolina
•Spook Hill: Lake Wales, Florida
•Cosmos of the Black Hills: Rapid City, South Dakota
•Gravity Hill: Bedford County, Pennsylvania
* * *
COWBOY PROVERB
Never dig for water under an outhouse.
First job: Patrick Dempsey of Grey’s Anatomy worked as a unicycle-riding clown.
REAL TREASURE HUNTING
Want to go looking for treasure? Well, ye pirate, here’s one of the Caribbean’s most notorious stashes. So attach your peg leg, raise your Jolly Roger, and cast off !
S EEKING: 55 chests of silver and gold
LAST SEEN ON… Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands, which some people say was the setting for Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island .
THE LEGEND: In 1750, a ship called Nuestra Senora de Guádelope was bound for Spain and carrying a fortune in gold, silver, and spices. Somewhere in the Atlantic, either the crew mutinied or pirates took over—no one knows for sure—and half of the cargo was lost at sea. Englishman Owen Lloyd, a member of the Guádelope’s crew, stole the other half, loaded it onto his own ship, and sailed 1,000 miles to the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Lloyd and his cohorts stashed chests of gold and silver on the uninhabited Norman Island, named after a pirate who retired there with his spoils in the early 1700s. But Lloyd never got a chance to do that—he and his gang were captured before they could retrieve the goods.
Red is forbidden at Chinese funerals because it is the color of happiness.
People on nearby Tortola Island saw Lloyd’s ship and heard his buddies brag about the hidden booty. So the locals put two and two together and rushed to Norman Island. They discovered the loot, but the British government soon found them and took the treasure.
But did they find all of it? Around 1910, a fisherman caught in a storm took shelter in a cave on Norman Island. Waves slammed his boat against the rocks all night. Local legend claims that he woke up the next morning to find chunks of rock in his boat along with a surprise—a small chest of gold coins. He never officially reported the discovery, so the story can’t be confirmed. But people who live nearby believe the man used the money to open several tourist shops around town. So treasure-seekers still travel to the area and continue the hunt for the remaining chests.
To read about more sunken treasure, steer your ship over to page 97 .
Charles Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln—February 12, 1809.
GO TO COLLEGE FOR FREE!
If you meet some rather strange requirements, maybe you can get one of these scholarships.
T HE ZOLP SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone who’s attending Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, who is Catholic, and…whose last name is Zolp.
KLINGON LANGUAGE INSTITUTE AWARD
Who’s eligible? It’s open to anyone who studies languages—speaking fluent Klingon (an alien language on Star Trek ) is not a requirement.
FREDERICK AND MARY F. BECKLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone who’s left-handed and attends Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY BAGPIPE SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone majoring in bagpipes at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. As of 2009, though,
Studies show: The three most dangerous foods to eat in a car are coffee, tacos, and chili.
There are similar “mystery spots” all over the United States. Almost all of them (like the Oregon Vortex) opened in the 1930s as cheap roadside attraction to thrill Depression-era travelers. Most of them have a similar hook: single-room shacks on a hillside that are “beyond the realm of science.” Check out one near you…if you dare:
•The Mystery Spot: Santa Cruz, California
•Confusion Hill: Piercy, California
•The Mystery Spot: St. Ignace, Michigan
•The Mystery Hill: Marblehead, Ohio
•The Mystery Shack: Maggie Valley, North Carolina
•Spook Hill: Lake Wales, Florida
•Cosmos of the Black Hills: Rapid City, South Dakota
•Gravity Hill: Bedford County, Pennsylvania
* * *
COWBOY PROVERB
Never dig for water under an outhouse.
First job: Patrick Dempsey of Grey’s Anatomy worked as a unicycle-riding clown.
REAL TREASURE HUNTING
Want to go looking for treasure? Well, ye pirate, here’s one of the Caribbean’s most notorious stashes. So attach your peg leg, raise your Jolly Roger, and cast off !
S EEKING: 55 chests of silver and gold
LAST SEEN ON… Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands, which some people say was the setting for Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island .
THE LEGEND: In 1750, a ship called Nuestra Senora de Guádelope was bound for Spain and carrying a fortune in gold, silver, and spices. Somewhere in the Atlantic, either the crew mutinied or pirates took over—no one knows for sure—and half of the cargo was lost at sea. Englishman Owen Lloyd, a member of the Guádelope’s crew, stole the other half, loaded it onto his own ship, and sailed 1,000 miles to the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Lloyd and his cohorts stashed chests of gold and silver on the uninhabited Norman Island, named after a pirate who retired there with his spoils in the early 1700s. But Lloyd never got a chance to do that—he and his gang were captured before they could retrieve the goods.
Red is forbidden at Chinese funerals because it is the color of happiness.
People on nearby Tortola Island saw Lloyd’s ship and heard his buddies brag about the hidden booty. So the locals put two and two together and rushed to Norman Island. They discovered the loot, but the British government soon found them and took the treasure.
But did they find all of it? Around 1910, a fisherman caught in a storm took shelter in a cave on Norman Island. Waves slammed his boat against the rocks all night. Local legend claims that he woke up the next morning to find chunks of rock in his boat along with a surprise—a small chest of gold coins. He never officially reported the discovery, so the story can’t be confirmed. But people who live nearby believe the man used the money to open several tourist shops around town. So treasure-seekers still travel to the area and continue the hunt for the remaining chests.
To read about more sunken treasure, steer your ship over to page 97 .
Charles Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln—February 12, 1809.
GO TO COLLEGE FOR FREE!
If you meet some rather strange requirements, maybe you can get one of these scholarships.
T HE ZOLP SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone who’s attending Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, who is Catholic, and…whose last name is Zolp.
KLINGON LANGUAGE INSTITUTE AWARD
Who’s eligible? It’s open to anyone who studies languages—speaking fluent Klingon (an alien language on Star Trek ) is not a requirement.
FREDERICK AND MARY F. BECKLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone who’s left-handed and attends Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY BAGPIPE SCHOLARSHIP
Who’s eligible? Anyone majoring in bagpipes at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. As of 2009, though,
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