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This week's Link Dump is sponsored by Strange Company HQ's official mouser!
Watch out for those killer cow moos!
The first woman to be hanged in the USA.
How a toddler's death triggered a lethal wave of antisemitism.
Some non-UK crop circles, with a tip of the hat to this week's Russian Weird.
Australians, you've got something unidentifiable circling over you. Have a nice weekend.
A 19th century domestic tragedy.
A thousand-year-old pet cat on the Silk Road.
An overlooked serial killer?
The Cerne Abbas Giant is younger than we thought.
A weird bladder stone operation, which tells you that Thomas Morris is blogging again.
The mysterious Indus Valley civilization.
Dogs who are archaeologists.
The life of the Yorkshire Little Man.
A particularly barbaric murder of a child.
Burma's forgotten prince.
Tesla and the earthquake machine.
A look at lucky numbers.
Polynesians and Native Americans met some 800 years ago.
The controversial execution of Christopher Slaughterford. (I covered this enigmatic case here.)
Take a virtual tour of a Pharaoh's tomb.
Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway.
The world's loneliest plant.
Britain's ghostly Bigfoot.
Honoring the first pardoned turkey.
How a Victorian undertaker became a weight-loss guru.
A 12,000 year old mine.
Mysterious Stone Age artifacts.
Investigating the "third eye."
Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe.
The horror of Victorian skinny-dippers.
The girls who turned green.
A bicyclist's strange disappearance.
The strange disappearance of Dennis Martin.
An unpleasant incident in Wimbledon.
Rough Rider the goat takes on Sheepshead Bay.
In search of ancient Japan.
So let's talk Victorian shaving patents.
The collapse of the Vajont Dam.
The saga of the Jacob orphans.
Why Edwin Bush had cause to regret police technology.
What's in a name? Plenty, it turns out.
Did Mallory and Irvine reach the top of Mount Everest?
The pubs of Old London.
A disappearance and a room full of crazy.
The Dr. Strange of the Founding Fathers.
The friendship of Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier.
The earliest underwater Aboriginal sites.
The world's worst soap maker.
The pigeons of wartime.
Mass hysteria and the Dancing Plague.
Why a Mayan city was abandoned.
A 32,000 year old plant.
The last years of Michelangelo.
A mysterious Big Kaboom.
That concludes this week's WLD. See you on Monday, when we'll look at a strange 18th century crime spree. In the meantime, here's an oldie from Doug Sahm.
I'd never heard of the Indus Valley civilisation, perhaps because it is still so unknown. What a culture it must have been; its loss may have set the rest of civilisation back a thousand years.
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