Weekend Link Dump

This week's Link Dump is sponsored by a celebrity:  Tix, the celebrated angora cat of Green's Hotel!

Where the hell is Genghis Khan buried?

What the hell did Jane Austen look like?

Watch out for those demon houses!

The first photograph containing a human being, then and now.

Some cautionary tales about murdering people by putting nails in their skulls.

Jackie Gleason: "To the aliens, Alice!"

Opium and the Sumerians: fact and fiction.

The legend of Guinevere.

Angels are not always welcome.

One of the more horrifying poltergeist cases.

The French female Jekyll and Hyde.

Did Francis Drake bring slaves to North America?

Little Angry Women.  (Incidentally, I recently re-read the "Little Women" trilogy for the first time since I was a teen.  I was struck by how increasingly depressing they are.  "Jo's Boys" is enough to give Thomas Hardy the glooms.)

The legend of the Witch of Warrington.

Words of advice from 19th century letters.

Vegetables as surgical tools.

More reasons why Wikipedia is the most demented site on the internet.

Celebrate World Mosquito Day!  *Slaps arm*

The rumored hidden treasure in Los Angeles.

This week in Russian Weird: Beach Blanket Bizarre.  And guess where Syria is now located.

A mysterious murder in Waldron Woods.

America's first elephant.

How Biddy Mason went from slave to real estate tycoon.

The latest about that newly-discovered Egyptian sarcophagus.

Reindeer reincarnation in Norway.

The murder of a Pope.

The hottest gossip from the 17th century.

Someone nicknamed "the Mad" comes to a bad end.  Surprise, surprise.

Sigmund Freud vs. Woodrow Wilson.

If you want to make your own authentic Egyptian mummy--and who does not?--here's the secret.

A 13th century criminal appeal.

A forgotten Founding Mother.

Charles Godfrey Leland hits the road.

That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll be looking at that ever-popular topic, poison mysteries. In the meantime, let's go to a Ranch Party!