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This week's Link Dump is hosted by some of Louis Wain's Springtime Cats!
What the hell was the Tunguska Event?
The life of Joan, Lady of Wales.
The grocery store that was ahead of its time.
Remembering VE Day.
An ancient Egyptian funeral home.
Irish May Day traditions.
A very bad Victorian marriage.
Dutch profanity is pretty sick. Literally.
It could be argued that Robert Mitchum's life was more interesting than his movies.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the CIA and black magic assassins.
Marie Corelli, who might be the best-selling female author ever. I read one of her novels once. I suppose the best way to describe her style is "fascinatingly awful."
The eccentric Lady Cork.
An ancient "crazy beast" is giving scientists fits.
The tragic case of Genie, the "feral child."
Tracking disease in 17th century London.
The Sun isn't enjoying 2020 any more than we are.
The execution of two nine-year-old witches. You read that correctly. Nine.
It's always awkward when the ghost of your husband's first wife shows up.
Some amazing close-up photos of an asteroid.
This seems as good a time as any to reevaluate the Plague of Justinian.
The link between King Tut and a Saharan crater.
A brief history of Piccadilly Circus.
A brief history of the Hudson's Bay Company.
A 19th century wood frame house is tucked away in New York's Upper East Side.
A traveling police cat.
Oh, he's just an excitable neuron.
The "characters" of Old London.
The Loch Ness Monster has a cousin in Cornwall.
An interesting theory about the Rendlesham UFO incident.
That time Peter the Great gave John Evelyn a pair of gloves.
A sad archival love story.
The realm of the supersensible.
The strange case of the world's biggest treehouse.
Edward Cross and his 19th century menagerie.
That time a murder was nearly captured on Snapchat.
The "Titanic" and a family tragedy.
Typhus in Jane Austen's time.
The cocaine mummies.
A fatal visit to the pillory.
A dream of murder.
When Yetis attack.
Moving Day in old New York.
Tales from the 1918 pandemic.
That's a wrap for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at the world's lengthiest duel. In the meantime, here are the Allman Brothers.
After a youth like Mitchum's, he probably thought many of his movie plots were pretty tame. As for Bennu, the little asteroid, those are astonishing pictures, all right, but I wonder how all those pieces of rock, which look like they are simply scattered on the surface, remain on the asteroid; it isn't more than a third of a mile in diameter. It can't have any gravity.
ReplyDeleteAncient Egyptian funeral home - it still amazes me how something so old has not totally disintegrated.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't excitable neurons be doing the Neutron Dance?