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Ben School

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09.10.2014

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The mystery of Franklins Expedition

Dr. Owen Beattie was a ________________ at a university in Canada. He wanted to

____________ why so many men died in the Franklin Expedition.
Dr. Beattie began to _________ ________the first men who died on the expedition.
They were all
young and they died after only six months ____ _______. Twenty _________ men
died the next year.
There was something very strange about this and there was only one way to
____________ what it was.
_____1984, Dr. Beattie went to Baffin __________ with a team of scientists. There,
they opened the ______________ of the three Franklin ____________. Because of the
extreme __________ and ___________, the bodies were in perfect
___________________. Beaettie ___________ small samples of hair and skin and then
____________ the bodies back into the graves.
Back at the university, Beattie made an _______________ discovery. From the hair
and skin, he found that the three men died from ________
______________. They
had nearly 100 _______ more lead in their bodies _________ normal.
But where did the___________ come ________? Beattie looked __________________at
some of Franklins food tins and __________ the answer. In those days, tins were
closed with lead. Usually, this was not a big problem, but these tins were not
made ___________________. Lead was _____________ the tins. It was not the ice and
cold that ____________ the men. It was the 8,000 _________ of food that they were
eating.
Lead also ____________ the brain. It makes it difficult to _______ _______. Up in the
Arctic, we can now ___________________ why John Franklin ________________ so
many wrong _______________________.

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