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The Strange Company team has been hard at work getting this week's Link Dump ready!
What the hell happened to Michael Rockefeller?
Turning your child into a living advertisement.
Slavery in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
The Nose Duel: one of the odder Victorian urban legends.
In which we learn that Tabasco sauce was served at the Last Supper.
In which we learn that mice are terrified of bananas.
The jubilee tour of James VI and I.
It turns out that we've all misinterpreted Ben Jonson.
The cats of a Greek monastery.
The study of astral projection can get really weird.
An ancient city has emerged from the Tigris River.
Some NSFW ancient Roman graffiti.
A German spy buried in a London cemetery.
When women had to get official permission to wear pants.
T.S. Eliot and the Holy Grail.
A look at the coronation of Elizabeth II.
The mysterious author of "Gawain and the Green Knight."
The ancients were more technologically advanced than you might think.
The largest bell ever made.
How ancient Egyptians made olive oil.
The American Memorial Day of 1885.
The American Civil War's largest POW escape attempt.
The history of a miniature portrait.
A remarkable medieval map.
The churches of Antarctica.
An 18th century Scottish woman's life in the Moroccan court.
William Butterfield and the fairies.
Depressed coffin makers go on strike.
The demons of ancient Egypt.
Recreating Cleopatra's favorite perfume.
We've lost a whole lot of our literature.
The "ugliest woman in history."
An odd superstition involving crocodiles.
The woman who tried to ban kissing.
I really wish scientists would stop messing around with things we don't really understand. I've become convinced that if the human race ever becomes extinct, odds are it'll be thanks to some idiot in a lab coat.
Europe's oldest book.
Just what 2022 needs: 1,369 Draculas.
The Neosho murder.
The lost mansions of Stepney.
Sylvester, the Mummy of the West.
The husband of Lady Jane Grey.
The DNA of two Pompeii victims.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a ghostly house. In the meantime, here's what the world looked like in the 1890s.
I'd never heard of the escape from Libby Prison; it sounds very exciting, and I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made of it. I wonder if there are plans to protect the new archaeological site in Iraq, against the time when water-levels rise again. And how has the drought affected the Marsh Arabs' life in the south of the country? I didn't know a Rockefeller son had disappeared; interesting. And please, no large numbers of Draculas: the most easily over-acted monster in cinema...
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