Welcome to this week's Link Dump! Our host is the handsome Butch, former Humane Society mascot.
Just more proof that the universe is probably weirder than we can even guess, which helps explain why scientists who play know-it-all so annoy me.
In related news, we really don't know jack about the Moon.
Solving a 200-year-old volcanic mystery.
The world's deadliest sniper.
The work of the brothers Grimm.
A "lost world" in the Pacific Ocean.
Possible proof that Atlantis existed.
A mysterious secret tunnel.
The editor who annoyed Ernest Hemingway.
I now have the urge to write a short horror story titled, "Tomb of the Venom Magician."
The dogs of the Salem Witch Trials.
The oldest weapons ever found in Europe.
The rise and fall of an alchemist.
The people of the Naga Hills in the early 20th century.
Guys, stop releasing lynx into the Scottish Highlands, OK?
The man who thought it would be a fine thing to circumnavigate the world in a canoe.
The wages of 18th century servants.
The original rhinestone cowboy.
A case of 16th century defamation.
The UK's "dinosaur highway."
Why we call high prices "highway robbery."
A "lost" chapter of the Bible has been discovered.
Tipping in Victorian times.
The Squibb family murders.
Family letters reveal a bank con from a century ago.
Why you would not want to be a German Army deserter during WWII.
An undertaker's Gothic tale.
A fascinating cave system in Israel.
A brief history of curiosity cabinets.
That time when people were panicking over teddy bears.
The unique gems of the Thames.
When Jean met Rose.
Scotland's Stone Age settlements.
Reflections on work and life in the Middle Ages.
A ghost in the London Underground.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll have a metallic Close Encounter. In the meantime, here's some Beethoven.
Portland Humane Society is still at that address :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent articles this week. I had never heard of the Thames garnets, and hadn't know that mudlarks were licence (or that they were extant.) The family with the Flaming Hand of Doom was probably quite litigious before the meteorite. The volcanic eruption of 1831 strikes me as strange: you'd think such a big explosion would have been easily known from records - but it shows how life on Earth can be altered so simply. I have a liking for the Finns in their war with the USSR; the latter could have overrun Finland in 1944, with a huge, battle-hardened Red Army, but Molotov and other Soviet politicians figured even with their increased might, Finland would prove a bottomless quagmire of a war. And Hemingway needed an annoying editor after he became an author, not before...
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