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This week's Link Dump is hosted by the Three Rogues!
You can tell they're tough characters just by looking at them.
What the hell happened at Dyatlov Pass?
How the hell did the Pacific Ocean get full of dead crabs?
Five times when military pilots were ordered to intercept UFOs.
An air race that ended in tragedy.
When Kansas farmers harvested meteorites.
The American heiress who took on the Nazis.
WWII's all-female, all-black battalion.
The mystery of two boys who disappeared while going fishing.
A man who couldn't be hanged.
Victorian cobweb Valentines.
"The shame of being a bastard."
An archival bag of secrets.
Spring at Bow Cemetery.
A medieval murder mystery.
The life of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
The ghosts of Queen Anne's House.
A 5,000 year old tavern.
The children of the Ice Age.
A message from a doomed ship.
The first victim of radiation.
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
Sir Charles Raymond of Valentines.
The chemistry of chocolate.
A syphilitic medieval anchoress.
A questionable tale of marital devotion.
The cat who is a Polish tourist attraction.
The oldest known Valentine.
We've found a bunch of new (to us) gods.
Cursed Capouse Avenue.
The similarities between the Book of Revelation and ancient curse tablets.
Latin is making a comeback.
Gobekli Tepe apparently survived Turkey's earthquake.
The soup kitchen of Leicester Square.
A 15th century spice cabinet fit for a king.
The tale of a rapist who faked his own death.
The man responsible for "Jack Daniels" died in a rather embarrassing fashion.
A murder mystery that may have helped inspire Poe's "The Black Cat."
A very bad fiance.
Images of the last vestiges of ancient London.
The rise and fall of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Why Old English looks like gibberish to us.
Some romantic marriage proposals from the past.
The Lipstick Murder.
An "impossible" ring system has been discovered in our solar system.
In other astronomy news, the sun's acting pretty weird, too.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an airplane mystery. In the meantime, here's Linda. It's one of her lesser-known songs, but it's a lot of fun.
What an interesting story about the Amorite language. I wondered, why, however, the researchers weren't able to gain permission to use the actual tablets, rather than photographs. You'd think they could have studied them under conditions agreeable to the owners.
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