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Mark Stanley's topics of interest range from the microscopic to the spiritual, but with a strong emphasis on the historical.

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1.  Seventy percent of all curling stones ever made in the history of the sport come from the island of Ailsa Craig, a massive “volcanic plug” of granite emerging from the cold waters of the Firth of Clyde, halfway between Glasgow and Belfast by sea, like the smooth hump of a monolithic whale frozen in [...]

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