8 totally awesome natural phenomena you probably didn’t know about The Maelstrom Small maelstrom. Photo by Shutnic. When you hear a name like maelstrom, you just know it’s about something wicked. Introduced in English by Edgar Allan Poe from the Nordic languages, from which it came from the Dutch word maelstrom (maalstroom in modern spelling), it literally means crushing current, which is quite a
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