Interdisciplinary Clues
for April 16, 2010
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Mystery Class #1

"Our village has around 800 residents, and it is the largest community in our sovereign Nation. It it located where two highways join. Every year since 1866, our village hosts a celebration in July known by some as the Homecoming."

Mystery Class #2

"Our small town was founded by Quakers, and now is visited by many tourists each year to experience our rich biodiversity, including birds like this one in the photo." (Click image to enlarge.)

Bird

Mystery Class #3

"The formal name of our place contains the last name of two famous men, one that arrived here in 1911 and the other in 1912. It sits on one end of Earth's axis; everywhere else on Earth is north from here. You can see all longitudes here by simply standing and turning 360 degrees around." (Click image to enlarge.)

Landscape

Mystery Class #4

"Our country was one of the first to allow women to vote, and a main leader for the women's suffrage movement came from our city. This monument in our city honours her and other suffrage leaders. Our city is the largest on our island." (Click image to enlarge.)

Monument

Mystery Class #5
"Our city is the capital of our state, and is located along a river that goes by the same name as the state. It's a city that cat lovers would appreciate."
Mystery Class #6

"Houses for the many guilds from the late 1600's dominate the main square of our city -- it's quite a grand place." (Click image to enlarge.)

City Square

Mystery Class #7

"Our place looks like a spaceship floating in a sea of white. We operate on renewable energy like wind and solar, so we are also green." (Click image to enlarge.)

Building

Mystery Class #8

"The name of our camp (we're not a real city) is related to the location of Mystery Class #5. We're called an observatory, but we don't really have a building. One of our projects is taking ocean data from scientific instruments that are connected to long cables anchored to the sea floor below the ice." (Click image to enlarge.)

Equipment

Mystery Class #9

"Although there are gibbons calling from trees behind our school, our city is large and is the capital of our province. It is located on the Siak River and ships come up river to our city from the Straits of Melaka to deliver goods." (Click image to enlarge.)

Ape

Mystery Class #10

"Several hundred years ago, a ship was wrecked on the shores of our city, and hundreds of sailors were rescued by the townspeople. These monuments commemorate that event. Our city shores are also famous for camels." (Click image to enlarge.)

Statues