Mysterious Objects, Part I

Mysterious Objects

Gravity

By Seth Wimberly

Scientists believe gravity is everywhere, yet they do not know how it works. Why is it a mystery? No one knows how it works. Gravity is a mystery.

Red and white diamond

Deadly Diamonds

By Jeffrey Chandler

Alexander the Great in ancient Greece asked his fellow soldiers to show him the way to the Valley of Diamonds he had heard about. They did, but after a while they stopped and wouldn't take another step. There was the most deadliest snakes. They said that their gods had put them there to protect the diamonds. The snakes, if they look you in the face, would make you drop dead. Alexander took some hand mirrors and the snakes looked at their reflection and they died.

But Alexander still had a problem. How could he get the diamonds when all these snakes were in there? Alexander took sheep with very thick coats and threw them in the pit with the snakes. He pulled the sheep back up again. The diamonds stuck to the thick coats of the sheep and they picked them off the coats.

The Regent Diamond

By Ryan Laurin Spinning multi-colored diamond

The Regent Diamond was found by an Indian slave. He cut himself and hid the diamond in the wound. He went aboard a ship. The captain stole the diamond and threw the Indian overboard. He spent the money he got by gambling. Soon he hung himself. The man the captain sold the diamond to sold it for lots of money. Thomas Pitt was his name. People thought that he stole the diamond. He was very unhappy. He became more private. Many other people obtained the diamond. They were either very unhappy or had bad luck. The Regent Diamond is in the Louvre Museum. No one seems to want it.

Hope Diamond
By Seth Wimberly

The Hope diamond sounds like its a good luck diamond, but it's not. It's name comes from a family who owned it that wished they didn't. King Louis XIV loved it and gave it the name the Blue Diamond of the Crown. People said it was the eye of a statue of the Indian god, Rama Sita.

The Pigott Diamond

By Josh Lyons and Ryan Laurin White diamond

Once an evil man named Ali Pasha bought a very large diamond called the Pigott Diamond. Ali Pasha kept the diamond with him all the time.

Soon the sultain became mad at Ali Pasha and sent men to arrest him. When they arrived, Ali Pasha told his men to attack . They did not. So he fought. The battle was over in seconds.

When he was dying, he asked that his two most precious items be destroyed with him. The treasures were his wife and the diamond. When the guard brought these things, Ali Pasha asked that the diamond be destroyed first. After the diamond was destroyed, he died. The guard said to Ali Pasha's wife, "You should be happy. Your husband loved his diamond more than you or you would be dead right now."

Pyramids

By Perry Little

There are many weird buildings on the earth that seem to have magical powers. Everybody that visits the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt senses their mysterious traits. A Sphinx was found in Egypt and all of its facial features were almost entirely worn away. They think it must have been under water because what was gone couldn't have been destroyed by sand in the air.

Snowflakes

By Josh Lyons Snowflakes hanging from string

The common snowflake is still something of a mystery to scientists. Why does every small snow crystal show a hexagonal pattern, with either six sides or six points? When these crystals gather together to form a snowflake, why do they take on a flat six sided shape instead of another? And why are no snowflakes alike? The answer may lie in the way they are formed.

Earth Mysteries

By Perry Little

The Earth is full of strange forces that even modern science doesn't understand.

Why did the North and the South Poles switch places 30,000 years ago? Ancient people recognized long lines of magnetic force and in some places the energy was concentrated into a kind of whirlpool, like in England and Australia. What caused these?

The lines of Nazca were discovered in AD 500 in Lima, Peru. People thought they were just lines, but when the airplane was invented, people saw that the lines were pictures. The ancient people thought the lines were made by their gods. What really did make these huge pictures?

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