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Only someone confident of his ability to demonstrate both a right-hand and left-hand spiral at the same time would have written The Solid Mandala...
...corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide the printed answer until the student is ready to compare it with his own. Sullivan's solution is to print answers on the left side of each page, which children can cover with a cardboard slider. So as not to reveal answers to upcoming questions, the left-hand pages are printed upside down, and the child flips the book over after reaching the back page, works through the book again...
Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
...islands, probably based on reports of Japan. Africa is lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island in accordance with the medieval assumption that the universal sea surrounded any area that had not been explored. Both were plainly labeled (GRONELĀDA and VINLANDA INSULA...
...green. No. 6. Driver wearing a blue helmet. Who else? "Clark!" somebody shouted, and suddenly the crowd was chanting: "Clark! Clark! Clark!" Sure enough, just 3 min. 29 sec. after it had left the starting grid, Jim Clark's Lotus-Climax swept around the last left-hand bend into full view of the cheering stands. "C'est formidable!" gasped one awed Frenchman. Sighed another: "C'est termine"-It's all over...