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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Enjoy this week's Link Dump. Even though I still haven't been able to drag the Strange Company staffers away from the beach.
The "Titanic" of the Pacific.
The myth of the "tapeworm diet."
Meet Penelope, the pregnancy-faking platypus.
In which the future King Edward VII begs to be adopted.
Archaeologists may have found the back door to Hell. That's nice.
A mystery corpse in Pennsylvania.
The dreams of octopuses.
Some weird Stone Age holes.
A mystical mountain in Japan.
So, let's talk about boiled bodies.
The warmest place in the Arctic Circle.
The Spanish missionary who helped America gain its independence.
The troubled life of Alice Roosevelt.
Why the "Titan" was a tragedy waiting to happen. I will restrict myself to saying only this: Stockton Rush was a very strange man.
A wind in Switzerland that can be really bad news.
The English aristocracy and the development of cricket.
Treachery and the Battle of Northampton.
Why professional cyclists shave. A lot.
Pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain.
An underground town in Australia.
An Iron Age "tree coffin."
The men who may have encountered a plesiosaur.
A young man's puzzling disappearance.
A boy's puzzling murder.
In which Louisa Adams throws a party for Andrew Jackson.
Food processing has been around a lot longer than we thought.
Feeding the U.S. Army in the 19th century.
The world's most expensive cow. In other words, it costs a lot of moo-la. I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself there.
The days of switchboard operators.
The usefulness of ancient leftovers.
A 17th century feather cape returns home.
The weird magnetism of Mars.
A Civil War general vs. the press.
The Mütter Museum has a human remains problem.
If there was life on Mars, we may have accidentally killed it. Typical humans.
Milwaukee loves typewriters.
Solving the mystery of the "Holocaust escape girls."
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the disadvantages of having a talking stove. In the meantime, here's some Bach. These days, you don't hear harpsichords nearly enough.
It's fascinating to see the beginnings of Edward VII's Galliphilia. He was instrumental in beginning the rapprochement between Britain and France before the Great War, when they had drifted apart and nearly gone to war in the nineteenth century; a natural diplomatist. And as for the back door to Hell, I'm still trying to avoid the front door...
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