The Mystery of the Mona Lisa As Donald Sassoon emphasizes in Becoming Mona Lisa‚ the Mona Lisa has managed to maintain its status as the world’s most recognizable work of art. The author notes that many who visit the portrait find themselves wondering just what makes it so special. The lady in the portrait is not particularly beautiful and the painting itself is beginning to look its age. Yet despite all this‚ art historians continue to write and argue over the painting‚ and tourists continue
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watch TV‚ in order to relax until I went to sleep. From 11:30m-12am‚ I watched an episode of the Food Network Show‚ Mystery Diners‚ an investigative restaurant show‚ by myself before falling asleep soon after. The reason for the classification of this show‚ Mystery Diners‚ as an investigative restaurant show is simple. Charles Stiles is the head of a company known as Mystery Diners‚ who helps restaurant owners find out the source of their problems. Usually‚ this is done through the wiring
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Poe‚ a Man of Mystery EN1320 Danielle Waters April 21‚ 2013 Edgar Allan Poe’s life from beginning to end was shrouded in turmoil and touched with mystery. He was a curious man in life that left much mystery in the wake of his passing. Several theories exist but there is no absolute answer to Poe’s untimely death. He was born January 19‚ 1908 in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ orphaned at the age of three when his mother passed away and then “went to live with John and Frances Allan‚ a successful
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Unlocking The Mystery Of Life By. In 1831 Charles Darwin 22 years old sailed for the British empire‚ he visited the Galapagos islands once there he was intrigued how certain animals on the island evolved. Darwin later published a theory of natural selection called “The origin of species” supporting his theory he included how the finches beck and body size differed for one location to another causing a certain finch to survive which Darwin claims to be the direct result of natural selection in
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Mystery City Report Princess Elisabeth Research station (Belgium)‚ Antarctica 71*57’ S-23*20’E. That is exactly where mystery city #7 is located. One of the clues the website journeynorth.com gave us was “We are located on a continent that is one of the coldest places on Earth. It is also one of the driest‚ considered to be mostly desert; but don’t expect to see sand.” This clue really helped because it pretty much told us our city was in Antarctica‚ but now we had to find out where in Antarctica
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The D. B. Cooper Mystery On November 27‚ 1971‚ in Portland‚ Oregon‚ a man claiming to be “Dan Cooper” bought a ticket for Northwest-Orient Airlines Flight 305 to Seattle‚ Washington. Dressed in a sharp dark suit with a pearl tiepin‚ this forty-five year-old man was about six feet tall with black hair (Abacha and Gilmore 233). No one would suspect him of going down in American history as the only man to ever escape capture after hijacking a U.S. plane (Warchol 1). Soon after takeoff‚ after having
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Virginia Hamilton. The Mystery of Drear House. Greenwillow Books‚ 1987. 217pp In concluding her series of stories about the Small family‚ Virginia Hamilton compliments the original plot perfectly in The Mystery of Drear House. The books dark secrets begin to slowly unveil and are brought to end with a surprising friendship. The book is again set around the house of Dies Eddington Drear‚ in a current year. The surrounding property and underground tunnels on premises play major roles in
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Not even advancement in technology could remove the people’s thought and curiosity about mystries and legends of folklore. Some researchers and so-called experts have come and gone. All of them believing that their findings are correct. We do not know yet who to believe. A Tikbalang is a half-man and a half-horse creature. It’s upper body resembles like that of a horse and from the neck down it has a shape of a man. It is said to be living in places like swamps‚ deep woods‚ forests and big trees
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“Only God and the Sea knows what happened to those great ships”- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson .By this quote Woodrow Wilson argues that while having so many incidents over the pass century within the area of the Bermuda Triangle; many people make inferences on what they believe is true ‚ but no one actually knows the truth behind it all . The Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area of the North Atlantic Ocean and it lies between Miami ‚Florida; San Juan‚ Puerto Rico‚ and of course the Island of Bermuda
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One of the biggest mysteries We all dream‚ but do we all know why? The lyrics of a song says "For my dreams I hold my life‚ for wishes I behold my nights. " How much truth‚ but we are not dreaming so often that we don’t realize the importance of dreams‚ the peace and joy that we feel when we are dreaming.Try to feel dreams before they go‚ put them into a Pandora’s case and reopen it whenever you feel the need to detach from reality. It’s so good! Consider a trivial example‚ in the
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