Word: enthusiast
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Kirkland resident Diego Prats ’04 is a self-proclaimed Batman enthusiast. Early Wednesday morning, Prats got to walk in a superhero’s shoes—or climb, at least—as he scaled Kirkland Houses’s walls to retrieve the Adams House gong...
...apparent enthusiast for his home state, Fonseca listed Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Sooners among his interests on his entry at thefacebook.com...
...ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947?and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop...
ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947 - and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop for $7.95. AVEBURY: For two decades, the fields surrounding this English village have become a hot spot for crop circles (pictured) - said to be crafted (at night, presumably) by artistic visitors from another planet...
...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...