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Marisa Brook collects postcards, magnets, travel pins, and sometimes interesting rocks. She also spent eleven years collecting linguistics degrees, and now helps other people do so.

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An Island Is Born

Off the coast of Iceland on the morning of 14 November 1963, the crew of a lone fishing trawler spotted an alarming s...

Written by Marisa Brook • 02 Sep 2006 • Read →

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Barnstorming

Today, the term 'flying circus' most often brings to mind dead parrots, cheese shops, and the Knights Who Say 'Ni'. B...

Written by Marisa Brook • 14 Aug 2006 • Read →

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An Astronomical Identity Crisis

As children, everyone is taught the traditional order of the nine planets in the solar system. However, as we learn m...

Written by Marisa Brook • 01 Aug 2006 • Read →

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Not Your Average Summer Camp

In the summer of 1954, twenty-two fifth-grade boys were taken out to a campground at Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahom...

Written by Marisa Brook • 03 Jul 2006 • Read →

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The Winchester Mystery House

So far, life had been very good for Sarah Winchester. Born in the late 1830s in New Haven, Connecticut, she had been...

Written by Marisa Brook • 21 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Does Your Handwriting Express Your Personality?

It is a technique used all over the world, and training in it is widely offered. Many employers, especially in France...

Written by Marisa Brook • 25 May 2006 • Read →

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The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy

Summer 1878: With the end of the two-year Russo-Turkish War, the countries of Europe gathered at the Congress of Berl...

Written by Marisa Brook • 12 May 2006 • Read →

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