For several hundred years the Tower of London was home to a menagerie of wild animals, including a number of lions that later became the basis of a hoax. Dawk’s News-Letter for April 2, 1698, announced: “Yesterday being the one April several persons were sent to the Tower of London to watch the annual lion-washing ceremony.” This fictitious event continued to attract gullible visitors. Indeed, 158 years later, in 1856, many bought tickets to attend the ceremony. They were unaware of the significance of the date, April 1, or that the lions had been moved to the London Zoo 21 years before.

Western medicine today is often based on the idea that any one illness has one cause for which there is one cure. Where this is truly the case modern scientific tests to find the cause and powerful drugs to bring about a cure are of great benefit.

Unfortunately many illnesses do not fit this pattern. The important killer diseases of today, heart diseases and cancer, don’t. Nor do ailments such as backache and headache that take the joy out of life, and result in so much time being taken off work.

When sunlight strikes the atmosphere it is scattered, and sometimes split into its component colors, by water droplets, ice crystals and dust particles in the air, causing a variety of optical illusions.

A green flash can occur at sunrise or sunset when some part of the Sun suddenly and briefly seems to change color from red or orange to green or blue. This is an optical effect caused by the larger refraction of light at the blue/ green end of the spectrum…