Category: M

A function of strength and speed, is the ability to apply force rapidly. Jumping requires muscular power.  

Maintenance stage is the fifth and final stage in the transtheoretical model of behavior change. In this stage, individuals have been able to sustain their new behavior for over 6 months. Their habits are becoming automatic.  

Macrominerals are minerals needed in large doses (more than 100 mg daily). Examples are calcium, magnesium, and potassium.  

A woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits. Housewife Mary Toft emerged out of obscurity in April 1726 in Godalming, Surrey, England. She told a curious story of having been working in the held on St. George’s Day when a very large rabbit suddenly appeared and sexually assaulted her. The bizarre nature of…

American structure of mysterious origins possibly predating the Columbian contact. Outside Newport, Rhode Island stands a round tower built of held stones. It is about 25 feet in diameter and stands about 25 feet high. Referred to as the Old Stone Mill, it is supported by eight round columns, which in turn support Romanesque arches.…

Largest of the several UFO organizations to survive into the 1990s. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) was founded in 1969 as the Midwest UFO Network. The name was later changed to reflect its growth into an international organization. MUFON holds an annual symposium that provides the largest regular gathering of ufologists and their supporters, and…

One of several reported lake monsters similar to the loch ness monster that have been reported in nine of the larger Scottish lakes. Morag is the name given the creature that has been sighted in Loch Morar, which lies approximately 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of Loch Ness. It was named for Mhorag, the traditional…

Objects on the surface of Mars that resemble pyramids, a human face, and a city. To some, they suggest that Mars is or has been at some time inhabited. During the 1960s and 1970s, a series of U.S. space probes took thousands of pictures of Mars, all indicating that there was no life on the…

The assertion that National Aeronautics and Space Administration computers had dis¬ covered a missing day (actually 23 hours, 20 minutes) at a point in time that corresponds to an incident recorded in the biblical book of Joshua 10:12. The Hebrews had just defeated the Amorites, and Joshua commanded the sun to stand still so that…

Hairy hominid completely enclosed in ice exhibited at midwestern country fairs in the 1960s. Two prominent cryptozoologists, Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, traveled to Minnesota to see the creature. After careful examination or as careful as could be done considering that it remained encased in ice in a cramped sideshow trailer they concluded it…