This week's Link Dump is sponsored by Strange Company HQ's staff photographer.
Watch out for those fire giants!
The Stillwell murder.
The Massachusetts Borgia escapes the noose.
Another instance of the internet proving there is such a thing as too much publicity.
Regulating boy soldiers.
Legends of the Tower of London.
A deadly ancient meteor.
Shorter version: Brrrr!
That time the Dutch executed an entire village.
That time Ben Jonson faced a murder charge.
How Harriet Moore became John Murphy.
Here's your big chance to live in Britain's most haunted village.
Some delightfully wretched Thanksgiving plays.
Serious question: Aren't all nightclubs portals to Hell?
The birth of the fingerprint detectives.
How Voltaire went from prisoner to playwright.
One of the first suffragettes.
The oldest original manuscripts of Old English poetry. All four of 'em.
The Toyota dealership employee who should have won a Nobel Prize.
A day in the life of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children.
Thanksgiving recipes you probably won't want to copy. Unless, of course, you really dislike your guests.
Giving some love to the pun.
The fiery mystery that inspired Charles Dickens.
Shorter version: sailing the North Sea in the 18th century was...not fun.
A "mythical" city has just been found.
The Duchess and her wolf.
If you need a theme for your next dinner party, here are some dishes made by famous poisoners.
A first-hand look back at Jefferson Airplane and the Summer of Love.
Jack the Ripper's most mysterious victim.
The toy monkey and the Nazis.
A 19th century woman goes to sea.
Why you would not want to take your time machine to 536 AD.
One of 2018's weirdest hoaxes.
Public Thanksgiving and the Jacobite Rebellion.
A shooting on a streetcar.
A stone-throwing poltergeist in Zimbabwe.
A ghost who liked to count oranges.
That wraps it up for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at an obscure and deeply puzzling poisoning mystery. In the meantime, here are Glen and Roy. RIP, guys.
Most interesting about Tenea, the lost city. It astonishes me that whole cities can be lost. I keep thinking about someone wondering about, saying, "It was here just a minute ago..."
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