Show w r Freaks and Oddities In Science News c o Two ancient Indian cities clUes Jn In Mexico never before U J visited by archaeologists have Just been explored These two sites Toluquilla and Ranas some twenty miles mUes apart in the Sierra Gorda mountains of at Quere- Quere taro are arc veritable fortress cities built on precipitate cliffs whose only approaches are defended by double and triple walls of enormous thickness ANCIENT The now abandoned cities covered with RUINS a dense vegetation once dominated ex- ex FOUND IN regions They are near no mod- mod MEXICO 1 em ern em cities or towns but because the ex explorations explorations ex- ex have revealed that they are probably among the most important ruins in the country the Mexican government is 13 preparing to clear the site The exploration and excavations it indicate that these are probably Toltec cities built by a race which antedated the Aztecs who dominated middle Mexico before the Spanish conquest Tire TIN flourished centuries before Columbus discovered America and were the conquerors themselves of the famous Mayas of Yucatan Toluquilla has two great ball courts rectangular areas by massive walls a of stone typical of the and found wherever these people once imposed imposed im imposed im- im posed their culture a most famous example being the Maya city of Chichen Itza which has its Toltec ball court S S S That a a. pianist though he is an excellent musician musician mu mu- U si lan does not play in strict time even when I he tries to do so so is 13 one of the interesting resting facts dis disclosed dis- dis I closed by a a. piano camera I IThe The instrument gives a record NEW V DEVICE which may be preserved and studied SHOWS of the exact time at which each note PIANISTS Is 15 struck the time it is 15 released its OUT OF TIME intensity and also the movements of or the damper pedal Each of the pianists observed by means of this device gave a characteristic interpretation of any particular particular particular par par- composition When he repeated it it the second see sec ond rendition would be strikingly like the first The variations in time were shown when the artist artists artists art art- tried to play in time with a a. metronomes metronome's even beats beaw The deviations from exact time were smaller than in the artistic rendition but were in the same direction It was also found that the artist does not strike all the notes a of a chord at the same instant the amount of or time elapsing from the striking of at the first note to that of at the last ranges from 01 to 37 sec see The note having the greatest melodic interest either precedes or follows the others |