David Ackroyd
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English
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Nearly every society and culture has stories of "monsters," beasts that are said to populate the remote regions, and whose existence is the subject of controversy. Some are familiar, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Others, like mermaids, have been categorically dismissed. But some have been found. There are squid that reach lengths of 100 feet or more. The Komodo dragon, living on a remote island in Indonesia, has deadly saliva, a nasty disposition,...
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Language
English
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The bastian of some of the most top-secret activities in the world is literally impenetrable. It was the original testing site for the atomic bomb and then a high-security aero-engineering cluster. Here its public history ends and after 1968, it simply does not exist. Known by insiders as "Dreamland", Area 51 invokes conjectural theories like no other place. What happens in this zone of the Nevada desert? Through declassified documents and interviews...