Kampong Phluk, meaning ‘Harbour of the Tusks’, is a village in Siem Reap Province in northern-central Cambodia. It is a cluster of three villages built on stilts on the Tonle Sap. The houses of Kompong Phluk are built on top of wooden poles and stilts between six and eight metres high. During the dry season […]
There was a lot of whispering going on among the farm creatures. The chickens clucked and the ducks quacked. Matilda, the cow, mooed softly to Logan, the horse, and the sheep were baaing to one another. What had happened? Farmer Woodley had called the doctor and there had been lots of whispering inside the house.
Benjamin, the lamb, was quite sure that he would win the race. A fair was being held outside the village and all the lambs would participate in the race. But that afternoon when all the farm animals reached the fair ground, Benjamin found to his dismay that the race was meant only for the farm
Jemima was the smallest duckling on Benson’s farm. She was also the shyest one. Whenever her mother took all the ducklings in a line to the pond, Jemima would hide in the bushes and refuse to swim! “I feel so embarrassed, because the others learnt swimming very fast,” she told her best friend, Midge, the
Petunia was a beautiful little chestnut mare. She lived on Farmer Harold’s farm. She was very vain about her looks. She spent a lot of time curling her mane and looking at her reflection in the manger. One day, she saw Mrs Harold wearing a marvellous straw hat with two yellow roses on it. Petunia
A Fire Whirl–also commonly known as a Fire Devil, Fire Tornado, Firenado, Fire Twister or in Japan Dragon Twist–is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often made up of flame or ash. It’s a weird phenomenon involving fire and wind currents created at a flame source by wind or by the air disruption caused
Fire Rainbows are neither fire nor rainbows, but are so called because of their brilliant pastel colours and flame-like appearance. They are formed by the refraction of sunlight or moonlight in plate-shaped ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. The rainbows are formed by refraction and reflection of light. So called Fire Rainbows are stunning. They
Fairy Circles are the circular patches of the land barren of plants, varying between 7 and 49 ft in diameter, often encircled by a ring of stimulated growth of grass. Vast carpets of green spinifex grass, pockmarked by barren red circles, are seen in the desert of northwest Australia. Such discs of bare soil also
The Face on Mars lies in an area known as the Cydonia region, which falls between the planet’s cratered southern highlands and the smoother northern plains. When the Viking 1 mission returned the photos of the Martian surface in 1976, the image of a rocky face in the Cydonia region captured the public eye. Viking
Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond planet Earth. Extraterrestrial beings that have been reported, are claimed to be associated with UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). It is also believed there are many visitors here from the other worlds who are observing our planet. Extraterrestrial Life, also called Alien Life, is life that does not
An Earthquake Light is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky at or near the areas of earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Appearances of the Earthquake Light seem to occur when the quakes have a high magnitude, generally 5 or higher on the Richter scale. There have also been the incidents of
In the early 1900–land surveyors dropped a rope down a cave in Boone County, Arkansas. After the rope had descended two hundred feet, a horrendous hissing and roaring sound was heard, suggesting that a bizarre and enormous beast had been disturbed. They dropped a flat iron tied to a rope to the same place in
Eight-year-old Dorothy Eady or Om Seti (Omm Sety) born to English parents claimed that ‘Temple of Seti’ the First at Abydos was her home while she saw a picture of the temple at the British Museum. Later, she attempted to learn more about reincarnation and spirituality. Dorothy insisted that she was a priestess named Omm
The Dorchester Pot is a small bell-shaped vase with a small opening at its top. The small vase is made entirely of zinc and was decorated with silver inlay, and six floral ornaments on its side and a kind of vine or crown on the bottom. The decorative work and perfect manufacturing of the vase
Derinkuyu was an entire city complex built in a hole beneath the surface in Turkey. It wasn’t just only an emergency housing or refuge shelter but a large city supplied with water, houses, church, shops, storage areas, living rooms, bedrooms and teaching schools. There were 13 different floors leading deep down, the lowest being at