Mystery Class Update: March 30, 2001 Today's Report Includes: New Invention Sweeps Across Earth! Clues Calendar No April Fooling: This Week's Sunrise/Sunset Times Challenge Question #4 CLUES From Your Mystery Friends New Invention Sweeps Across Earth! As you know, we at Journey North are committed to bringing you the latest news and information! In keeping with this high standard, we have a special newspaper feature article about a new invention called "Latitude Shoes". It's hot off the newswire, and will be published in this Sunday's April 1st Latitude Sun Times newspaper. We hope you'll find it "uplifting"! Newspaper Article--"Latitude Shoes" In addition, we have collected the latest sunrise/sunset data and the next set of clues from your 10 secret Mystery Friends below. They'd love to tell you more, but they can't right now--their lips are sealed. Clues Calendar Clues will be coming for just 3 more weeks. Then we'll tell you how to submit your answers, which will be due no later than April 27. Here are some important dates for the coming weeks. Keep up the great work! April 6, 13 & 20: New clues from the Mystery Sites given each week April 27: Deadline for Answers May 4: Mystery Sites Revealed! May 11: Meet the Mystery Sites No April Fooling Sunday may be April Fool's Day, but we still have the latest sunrise and sunset data for this week--no fooling! Remember, this information was recorded for Monday, the same day you collected your sunrise/sunset data. This Week's Sunrise/Sunset Times Journey North Mystery Class Sunrise/Sunset Data Data For: Monday, March 26, 2001 MYSTERY CLASS SUNRISE SUNSET #1 07:31** 19:54** #2 07:15 19:23 #3 06:53 18:47 #4 06:40 18:54 #5 07:22 18:33 #6 06:49** 19:23** #7 06:29 18:24 #8 06:22 18:36 #9 06:38 18:39 #10 06:09 18:32 ** NOTE: MC #1 and #6 have experienced a one hour adjustment to their times since last week, but remember that this adjustment will NOT affect the photoperiod. Due to daylight savings time starting or ending in the coming weeks, you may see one hour changes at other locations. Challenge Question #4: "Can you explain why the Daylight Savings Time change does NOT change the photoperiod?" (To respond to this question, please follow the instructions below.) * Note: Military time is usually expressed without any punctuation. We have used a ":" between the hours and minutes for clarity.) CLUES From Your Mystery Friends Mystery Class: MC #1: "The carob, the cork oak, and the eucalyptus are trees in our country. One of our country's biggest consumers of water is a plant called the Eucalyptus. In our country we are famous for seafood like ameijos, carapau, bacalhau, and camaries." MC #2: "The majority (but not all) of people in our country fast during Ramadan. English is not our official language. Our people speak many languages, including Chinese and Indian dialects." MC #3: "Our country is a republic, and has an approximately 450 km coastline along an estuary plus an approximately 220 km maritime coastline; there are no high mountains or vast plains and no impenetrable forests or desert regions. The climate is temperate all the year round: (average 11° C in winter - 26° C in summer). Though in winter temperature can occasionally drop near freezing point, snowstorms and hurricanes are unknown." MC #4: "The estimated population of our country in 2000 was approximately 100 million people." MC #5: "I live by a sea, but there is no water there. English is the predominate language." MC #6: "We live on an island that is neither east nor west." MC #7: "Farming is an important industry in our country. More than half of the land is used for grazing animals. We have approximately 60 million sheep and 8 million cattle." MC #8: "We had one official language until 1974. A lot of people speak 2 different languages. Police officers wear green, and the ones that can speak English have a red border indication on their shoulder." MC #9: "Approximately 70% of the population of our country speaks the indigenous languages of Aymará or Quechua. These English words are believed to have been derived from one of the two main indigenous languages of our country: coca, condor, guano, gaucho, guanaco, Inca, jerky, lagniappe, lima [bean], llama, pampa, puma, quipu, quinine, quinoa." MC #10: "Like watching fireworks? Gunpowder was invented in this country." How to Respond to Today's Challenge Question: IMPORTANT: Answer only ONE question in each e-mail message. 1. Address an E-mail message to: jn-challenge-mclass@learner.org 2. In the Subject Line of the message write: Challenge Question #4 3. In the body of the message, answer the question above. The Next Mystery Class Update Will be Posted on April 6, 2001 Copyright 2001 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form