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A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road, or anti-gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill against gravity. [1]
Kutch district - Kalo Dungar magnetic hill: [114] [115] has a gravity hill optical illusion 5.2 km (3¼ miles) west of the Kutch Dattaterya Temple and 33 km (20 miles) northwest of Kutch city. Ladakh union territory: Leh district - Leh-Manali Magnetic Hill: is located 7.5 km (4¾ miles) southwest of Nimmoo on Leh on Manali-Leh highway. [116]
Cover of 1969 tourist pamphlet for Magnetic Hill. With the rise in tourism after the Second World War, the roughly 1 kilometre segment of gravel road became one of Moncton's prime tourist attractions (along with the tidal bore on the Petitcodiac River). Magnetic Hill is now a historic property. [1]
It was widely believed that vehicles were being propelled uphill by a mysterious magnetic force, but the road's apparently uphill slope is an optical illusion. [1] This runs the quarter of a mile from the bend overlooking Croy railway viaduct in the west (286 feet Above Ordnance Datum) to the wooded Craigencroy Glen (303 feet A.O.D.) to the east.
Magnet Hill is a gravity hill located, near Leh in Leh district of Ladakh, India. [1] The layout of the area and surrounding slopes create the optical illusion of a hill. The hill road is actually a downhill road. Objects and cars on the hill road may appear to roll uphill in defiance of gravity when they are, in fact, rolling downhill. [2]
"The Glass Mountain" (Szklanna Góra) is a Polish fairy tale, translated from the original Polish into German as Der Glasberg. [1] The tale was also compiled by Hermann Kletke and sourced as from Poland. [2] Andrew Lang included a translation into English in The Yellow Fairy Book. Further publications followed suit, keeping the name. [3] [4]
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is an American children's picture book written by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert, [1] and published by Simon & Schuster in 1989. The book teaches the alphabet through rhyming couplets , and charted The New York Times Best Seller list for children's books in 2000.
The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).