Don't let this week's collection of links bend you out of shape.
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Leave that to the cats.
What the hell happened to Lake Waiau?
What the hell fell from the sky in New Jersey?
Where the hell is Philip of Macedon buried? Now we know!
What the hell happened to MH 370? Will we ever know?
Watch out for the Big Muddy Monster!
Watch out for Teddy Rowe's Band!
Watch out for miniature coffins!
Watch out for Bakersfield clowns!
Watch out for those Golems!
Watch out for those Victorian baths!
Watch out for Tecumseh's Great Spirit!
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas are really booming!
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No! It's...Superman's ghost!!
Alternate headline: "Sheep Dog Avenges Rat."
How a Confederate officer and some grave-robbers unwittingly revolutionized 20th century forensics.
"Jaws" goes to court: The strange case of the Shark Papers.
Lord Byron: the first Sexy Vampire?
It's a Dandy in Distress!
The long, painful death of a Siberian princess.
This guy is pretty diseased, all right.
Julia Pastrana, one of the most famous bearded ladies.
Distillery Cats: "Personable, but with a killer's instinct."
A possible link between those mysterious Siberian craters and the Bermuda Triangle.
The Czech nurse who took "sleeping with the enemy" to a whole 'nother level.
What's even better than a poison duel? A poison-pen duel!
The diary of a diplomat's wife.
The ghost of No. 281 Stuyvesant.
A great day for cats: The birth of the catnip mouse.
A classic bit of historical weirdness: The legend of the Ghoul of Glamis.
How Scotland came to be full of monuments to a crook.
How a piece of bread and an apple led to a witchcraft trial.
Just to get our weekend fun rolling, let's talk itching and scabbiness.
Uncovering Scottish Viking treasure.
The state of aqua archaeology.
Yellow fever: the proto-Ebola.
What is "masculinity?" Depends on your era.
The latest on the Antikythera hunt.
Are these the oldest known cave paintings?
Ghost ships! Treasure! Tragedy! Who could ask for anything more in a blog post?
Is this the first known recording of the human voice?
The history of wife-selling.
A Confederate soldier's gossipy coded diary.
Gods, barbarians, and Zerkon the Moorish Dwarf. Dining with Attila the Hun sounds like something out of Douglas Adams.
Giving a whole new meaning to the term "ghostwriter."
Just for fun: A delightful 18th century automaton clock.
Vikings: The first metrosexuals?
Waterloo, one of history's most famous "Oopsie!" moments.
A Danish 17th century Dr. Frankenstein?
A Chicago 19th century Dr. Frankenstein?
A princess does some illegal cycling.
The black cat of the Tombs.
Joan of Arc and the fairies.
Why becoming a 15th century royal necromancer was not always a great career move.
Because it's not often you get to come across the words "Ebola" "reincarnation" and "Buddhist" in the same headline.
If you want to rest in peace, it doesn't pay to tick off your undertaker.
Merry Andrew and the Ghost; or, Fun With Body-Snatchers!
19th century zombies.
The coded diplomacy of John Adams.
A wonderful assortment of medieval doodles.
The Case of the Haunted Kidneys.
Illustrations of 1893 London.
A witchcraft case from 1941.
Cleaning up the medieval era.
And finally...yes, I agree that this pretty much says it all:
I found an excellent, really concise infographic of the state of the world: pic.twitter.com/H6MmYmjijr
— Hend (@LibyaLiberty) October 16, 2014
We're done for this week. See you all on Monday, when I'll be turning book reviewer! In the meantime, here's a classic Welsh choral song:
The article on cleanliness in the middle ages was very interesting. A book I have about medieval English houses states that men whose business was to clean latrines were well-paid, earning 40 shillings a job on average (a good amount in those days). Another book compares the washing of English and French underwear. The former washed theirs much more often, while the French liked to have more of it and washed the dirty articles in huge batches every half-year or so. That's why the French had linen closets, or lingeries. So many interesting things to read. Thanks for making them available.
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