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This week's Link Dump: tea is served!
Where the hell was Noah's flood?
Watch out for those haunted computers!
Bees. Golden, mummified bees.
They may have found the skull of Pliny the Elder.
Finding history in a London cesspit.
The life of William IV.
How to go about settling in 1830s Texas.
A dinosaur love song.
An unusual hanging.
Killer corsets.
Killer rings!
Beethoven wasn't as deaf as we think.
Dinnerware for the dead.
The sound of the sun.
An 8,000 year old bone figurine.
A vaudeville performer who acted as a human screen.
Why did the 1918 flu kill so many young people?
A well which might be the world's oldest wooden structure.
Newly-discovered details about the death and burial of Charles Dickens.
Spirits of the unforgiven dead.
The Museum of Interesting Things turns out to be well named.
A puzzling ancient skeleton.
Some medieval medical recipes.
Reevaluating Charles Fort.
A Nazi-killing teenage girl gang.
Ancient board games.
If you've been longing to buy land once owned by a family of serial killers (if you're a reader of this blog, I suppose that's a definite possibility) here's your big chance.
Egypt's City of the Dead.
Mysterious underground cities and rock churches.
So maybe Cahokia wasn't that deserted after all.
The tradition of "Mid-Lent."
Victorian vinegar valentines.
The portraits of Princesse de Lamballe.
The downfall of a dangerous family.
Murder, written in stone.
The man who really defeated King Harold.
David Bowie and his demon-possessed swimming pool.
A mysterious mass burial.
Warrior tax collectors in the 11th century.
Murder and mystery in Los Angeles.
Queen Victoria throws a costume party.
The screaming ghost of a sheep thief.
A Brooklyn fire dog comes to the rescue of kittens.
Klingon Hamlet, and other theatrical links.
Nothing to see here, just a bunch of ancient curse tablets.
A rating sheet of 18th century socialites.
An 1895 film in high definition.
The amazing story of an Auschwitz inmate.
A woman discovers her family ties to the Lindbergh kidnapping.
I now realize what I was meant to do with my life: own a bookstore full of kittens.
A brief history of lipstick.
Dr. Crippen's family want his remains.
The bottom of the ocean turns out to be a pretty noisy place.
That's a wrap for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll meet a cat who inspired an epic legal battle. In the meantime, here's a bit of Torelli:
I've always rather liked King William IV. He had a lot of common sense (eventually), knew his weaknesses and tried to be as good a monarch as possible despite them. I especially liked the bit about him trying to live long enough for Victoria to rule as well as reign. Good show, Your Majesty.
ReplyDeleteThe article on the 1918 flu victims was interesting as well. It makes sense.