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This week's Link Dump is hosted by some of our All-American Cats!
Controversial Ice Age rock art.
Shackleton's ship "Endurance" has been found.
Shorter version: cat show people are insane.
The sinking of HMS Vanguard.
A couple of vintage puns.
Solving an archaeological mystery.
A Chinese socialite plots an assassination.
The earliest known peace treaty.
The 1816 sun spot controversy.
An ancient stone containing a demon has been cracked open, which these days doesn't surprise me in the least.
The "pit of ghosts."
The monkey in the red bathing suit.
The grim battle of Towton.
Vandalism at London's National Gallery.
The Poe novel that predicted a murder at sea.
A young woman's unsolved murder.
A strange case of amnesia.
A look at "sin-eating."
A possible Neolithic crime scene.
The Temple of Heaven loses its golden bells.
How Robert Frost ended Truman Capote's career as a copyboy.
Frederick the Great, misguided monarch?
Probably the weirdest Mozart monument. (And considering that Wolfgang had quite the potty mouth, I think he would've enjoyed it.)
A Welsh Mystery Box.
Two real-life characters from "Poldark."
John of Gaunt and the murder of a friar.
An unhappy Gilded Age marriage.
A very old pearl bead.
A mummified ancient Roman freedman.
Early humans had a lot of headaches.
How "lovely" came to be thought of as a "girly word."
The spy known as "The Limping Lady."
The notorious murder of newspaper editor Albert Richardson.
The animal paintings of Edwin Landseer.
The birth of the tomato soup cake.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at spooky doings in a Georgia telegraph tower. In the meantime, here's some "different" harp music:
It's interesting that the Thames River Police was formed even before the Metropolitan Police force was created, though it makes sense that, in a society that viewed police with suspicion (as Englishmen did at the time), a force formed for a rather specific purpose would be more acceptable. However, "Metropolitan Police Maritime Policing Unit" sounds very modernly redundant, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd the article on Frederick the Great's failures was an intersesting aspect of that monarch's foreign and military policies.
As always, a delightful mix! And thanks for including an item from me.
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