Q: Some people collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musical instruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.

For the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. "It's a drawing of a lift. And the secret says: 'I feel guilty when I take lifts for one floor, so I limp when I get out.'" Frank said.

Ten years ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People then began to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets. Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.

Mr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. "I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did."

He has published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. One secret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. "I have a couple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my family has read them all and it's wild!"

The project itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publisher told him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However, the address was there just because of the contract between them. Actually Warren wasn't very happy about that.

Some people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides .

Answer the following questions:
1. What gender is the person who collects secrets?
2. Where is he from?
3. And what is his name?
4. How long has he been collecting secrets?
5. What is the most common object he receives with a secret on it?
6. What is this art project called?
7. What day does he post the secrets on his website?
8. And how many secrets at a time does he post?
9. How many books did he publish?
10. How many secrets in each book are his?
11. What organization does Eric Perry work for?
12. Whose home does he deliver to?
13. How long has he been delivering to Frank?
14. Did Frank's wife know what he was doing at first?
A: 1. a man
2. Maryland
3. Frank Warren
4. 10 years
5. postcards
6. PostSecret
7. Sunday
8. 10
9. six
10. One
11. the U.S. Postal Service.
12. Frank's
13. three years
14. No
Q: Isabella Stewart was born in New York City in 1 840.Her father made a great deal of money in the trade.During school,her parents took her to Italy to explore the country's many cultural treasures.

One of the private art collections Isabella visited in Milan had a deep influence on her.She wrote to her friends about her dream of owning a house one day with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy.

In Paris,Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates,Julia Gardner,whose family was from Boston.Julia would later introduce Isabella to her brother,Jack.In 1 860,Isabella Stewart married Jack Gardner.

The couple had too much art to fit inside their home.So they decided to start planning a museum.Mrs. Gardner didn't like the cold and empty.spaces of many museums during her time.She wanted a warm museum filled with light.She once said that she decided years ago that the greatest need in her country was art.America was a young country developing quickly in other areas.But the country needed more chances for people to See beautiful examples of art.

After her husband's death in 1 898.Isabella knew she had no time to lose in building her museum.She bought land,hired a building designer,and supervised every detail of her museum's construction.

Mrs.Gardner opened her museum on January 1,1 903,which was then called Fenway Court.She invited her friends that night for a special musical performance.The next month,she opened the museum to the public.At first,visits were limited to twenty days out of the year.Visitors paid one dollar to enter.

Isabella Stewart Gardner died in 1 924 in Boston.In her will,she left the museum a million dollars and a series of requirements about how it should be managed, one that the permanent collection cannot be changed.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where was Isabella Steward born?
2. What was the name of her classmate in Paris she became close friends with?
3. What had great influnce on Ms. Steward in Milan?
4. Why did the Gardners decide to open an Art museum?
5. Where did Isabella's parents take her to study the countries many cultural treasures?
6. What was the date Mrs. Gardner opened her museum?
7. What was the name of the muesum then?
8. What did Mrs. Gardner leave the museum in her will?
9. Did she have any requirements to how the museum should be managed?
10. how long after the initial opening was the museum opem to the public?
A: 1. New York City
2. Julia Gardner
3. One of the private art collections she visited
4. Isabella didn't like the cold and wanted a museum full of light
5. Italy
6. January 1 ,1903
7. Fenway Court
8. a million dollars
9. Yes
10. The next month
Q: (Mental Floss) -- With Mother's Day just around the corner, this week seemed like a great time to give a tip of our caps to stay-at-home moms, including these four who used clever ideas to become business moguls.

Gerber: Of course only a mother could found such a successful baby food company! In the late 1920s, Michigan mom Dorothy S. Gerber was hand-straining food for her baby daughter, Sally, when she realized there must be some way to avoid the messy task.

She pointed out to her husband, Daniel, that if his family's business, the Fremont Canning Company, could puree a tomato all day long, its equipment could probably make short work of other fruits and veggies, too.

Daniel Gerber realized his wife was on to something, and after a year of experimentation -- and an extensive search to find the right drawing for their label's now-iconic "Gerber baby" - the Gerbers introduced their first line of baby foods, a super-yummy menu of strained peas, carrots, prunes, and spinach.

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Baby Einstein: When Alpharetta, Georgia mom Julie Aigner-Clark went looking for educational materials for her newborn daughter in 1996, she found a disappointing hole in the baby market: there weren't really any educational materials to expose babies to music and the arts.

Some parents would just accept whatever the market was offering. Not Aigner-Clark. She shot a video for her daughter in her basement then edited it with her husband, Bill, on the family computer. She even doodled a logo for the video at her kitchen table.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was Gerber founded?
2. who was the founder?
3. How did the idea come to her?
4. Who was her husband?
5. What was his line of work?
6. WHat was his business?
7. How long did it take to find the Gerber baby?
8. Who is Julie Aigner clark?
9. What did she create?
10. Why did she?
A:
1. In the late 1920s
2. Dorothy S. Gerber
3. was hand straining food
4. Daniel
5. businessman
6. Fremont Canning Company
7. a year
8. a Georgia mom
9. Baby Einstein
10. she looking for educational materials