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Cartoon time
with Willie Lai
"DON'T TRY TO EXPLAIN,
..I'VE TOLD YOU NOT TO KISS ME & YOU DON'T"
ZOO'S WHO by GEORGE
SCARBO
THE BACTRIAN CAMEL HAS TWO HUMPS ON ITS BACK, THE DROMEDARY CAMEL HAS ONLY ONE THE HUMPS ARE RESERVES OF FAT WHICH SUPPLY THE ANIMAL WITH BOTH WATER AND NOURISHMENT
DON'T
LIKE
YOU!
THE BACTRIAN CÅMELIS HEAVIER AND CAMELS ARE FOR- SLOWER THAN THE DROMEDARY CAMEL, IS MAINLY USED AS A PACK ANIMAL, TRAVELING IN LARGE CARAVANS ÖVER THE DESERT. IT CAN CARRY FROM FOUR TO FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS OF BAG- GAGE..CAMELS ARE BETWEEN 7 AND 8 FEET TALL, AND MUST KNEEL" SO THEIR MASTERS CAN GET ON THEIR BACKS AND RIDE
TO SEE WHAT IS IN THIS SQUARE, BOTH THE HUMAN EYE AND THE CAMERA
MUST HAVE LIGHT.
EVER VOICING
THEIR DIS- APPROVAL OF THEIR MASTERS THEIR WORK, AND EACH
OTHER-
World of Nature
HOW MUCH
YOU
MUCH DO
KNOW?
1-What is a griffin?
2
A timid beauty
BARRY DRISCOLL
ORI
RIGINATING Eastern
in Siberia, the tiger has crept over most of the forests of Central and Southern
Asia. It is the most striking-
ly beautiful of the cats, the deep orange of its head pal- ing to blonde on its body, which is slashed unevenly with bluish-black stripes,
-Where is Pearl Harbour and why did it
world famous?
-What is the meaning of (a) cravat; (b) cumulus;
(c) cupola?
4-Where in England is Battle and how did it get its
name?
5-When and where was the first underground rail-
way opened?
ending in a heavy ringed 6-Who wrote the music for the ballet The Swan Lake?;
tail.
Powerful males have mea-
sured up to 10ft. Structurally-When was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
they are similar to the lion, and interbreeding is quite common in captivity.
There are four to five cubs in a litter, but usually only two survive. The dead are eaten by the mother. The survivors are
fiercely guarded, the female risking her own life in their defence.
Apart from this the tiger is a timid creature: the Romans and Indian princes who pitted them against bulls and buffaloes in their arenas were mortified to see them avoiding their opTM ponents at all costs.
With its poor sense of smell and vision, the tiger relies on its acute hearing, when stalking. Thus it can be baffled by a motionless antelope in the bush. But when certain of its prey, it leaps on to its back, hugging it and biting its throat.
Having killed, the tiger eats prodigiously (200lb. of meat a day), resting up near the kill
until all is devoured.
formed?
8-In which counties are (a) Beauly; (b) Beautien ?
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Now test your wits on these puzles:-
• A tank one-third full of water weighs 101b. more than when only one-quarter full. If the tank weighs 201b, when empty, how: much does the full tank weigh?
Which two letters in the word DISASTROU8 have just as many letters between them as they have in the alphabet? ^;
If it takes 170 yds. of fencing to enclose a rectangular field 1,750
sq. yds, in area, what is the length of the field?
When Mr and Mrs McNab returned from holiday they found- that one-seventh of the money they had spent had gone on travelling and four-sevenths on hotel bills. "If their incidental): expenses had totalled £18 how much money did they spend. altogether?
One number in each group below differs in some way from the rest. Can you spot it?
(a)
10, 95, 51, 15. 50 (b) 81, 64, 16, 36, 21 49 32, 28, 98, 54, 76, 87
(c)
25,
Arrange the six words below into two groups of three in such a way that no letter contained in any of the words of the first group appears in the second group.
PORT, BIND, FEEL, SPRY, JACK, HUNG
ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S QUIZ
1. (a) A trifling fault; (b) a the poem On His Blindness. pickle of mixed vegetables; (c) 6. John Wilkes (1727-1797)` a little Negro child.
after he had been expelled from
2. The cup used by Christ at Parliament, was elected for the Last Supper.
Middlesex in 1768-and also at 3. The Norwegian explorer three subsequent elections be Amundsen (1872-1928) sailed fore the ban on his taking his from the Atlantic through the seat was withdrawn in 1774 Arctic Seas
the Pacific
in 7. Charles Macintosh (1765-
1843).
When hampered by injuries 1905. or disease, tigers take readily to 4. A group of rocks off the 8. (a) Henrik Ibsen (1828- man-eating. In India alone the western end of the Isle annual toll of victims has, on Wight. occasions, risen to 1,000.
5. John Milton (1608-1674)
THE THIRD EYE
BLUE
IN THE SQUARE IS A GREEN TREE, A BLUE SKY, A RED BUS AND A YELLOW CORNFIELD
•
WHAT THE EYE OR THE CAMERA SEES ARE THE LIGHT WAVES TRANS- MITTED OR REFLECTED BACK BY THE DIFFERENT COLOUR AREAS. EACH COLOUR IS RECOGNISSI BY DIFFERENT DEGREES OF BRIGHT- NESS BLACK AND WHITE FILM TRANS- LATES THEM AS DIFFERENT DENSITIES OF TONE BETWEEN BLACK AND
WHITE.
GREEN
ORTHO AM
YELLOW
PAN FILM
NO BLACK AND WHITE FILM "SEES COLOURS WITH THE SAME DEGREE OF BRIGHTNESS AS THE HUMAN EYE.DIFFERENT TYPES OF FILM TRANSLATE THE
| COLOURS WITH DIFFERENT
DENSITIES OF TONE,
of 1905); (b) J. M. Synge (1871- 1909); (c) Oliver Goldsmith. in (1728-1774).
BLUE
RED
GREEN
YELLOW.
TO THE HUMAN EYE, BLUJE IS VERY DARK, RED NOT QUITE SO DARK, GREEN MUCH LIGHTER AND
YELLOW LIGHTEST OF ALL.
BLUES
GREEN
YELLOW
BLUE
RED
GREEN
YELLOW
TO ORTHOCHROMATIE FLM, BLUE INSTEAD OF BEING VERY DARK IS VERY BRIGHT, BUT THE FIMIS NOT SENSIME TO RED AT ALL, AND BREEN AND YELLOW HAVE EQUAL
YALUES.
PANCHROMATIC FILM IS CORRECT EXCEPT FOR THE BLUE WWIIKCH IT SEES AS MUCH-
TOO LIGHT
YELLOW
HOLDS BACK BLUE
GREEN
HOLDS BACK RED & BLUE
RED
BLUE
HOLDS BACK
FILTERS PUT IN FRONT OF THE LENS CAN BE USED TO CORRELT THIS "COLOUR BUNDNESS,"
OF SENSITIVE
GREEN & BLUE FILM MATERIAL
WHOLDS BACK YELLOW (GREEN & RED)
A FILTER ALLOWS LIGHT OF ITS OWN COLOUR TO PASS, HOLDS BACK SOME OF THE LIGHT OF ANOTHER COLOUR OR
COLOURS BY ABSORPTION.
LENS
ONLY
E ON PÁNCHROMATIC FILM, A SCENE DOMINATED BY A BLUE SKY I TAKEN, THE FILM ABSORBS SO MUCH BRIGHTNESS FROM THE SKY THAT IT IS RENDERED AS WHITE AS THE CLOUDS.
YELLOW FILTER
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AND LENS
IF A YELLOW FILTER IS USED MUCH OF THE BLUE LIGHT IS ABSORBED AND THE SKY DARKENS SHOWING UP THE CLOUDS.
IT IS THE FEM, NOT THE CAMERA LENS THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE HUMAN EYE. IF SUN- GLASSES - WHICH ARE FILTERS – ARE WORN THE EYE RECEIVES LESS LIGHT. IF A LENS FILTER IS USED A LONGER EXPOSURE OR LARGER APERTURE IS
NEEDED TO TAKE A PICTURE.
NEXT
WEEK MORE ABOUT FILTERS
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