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This week's Link Dump brings on more summer fun!
Why Beethoven's hair is surprising scientists.
Indiana Jones and the Antikythera Mechanism.
The Yarmouth suspension bridge collapse of 1845.
The secret 1670 Treaty of Dover. Well, it's not a secret any more, of course.
The legend of "living dinosaurs" in the Congo.
Two famed San Francisco street dogs.
Protecting graveyards in medieval England.
The mystery of "corn rocks."
What the oldest water on Earth tastes like. (Spoiler: It ain't Perrier.)
Meet the Gallup Goatman.
The Peruvian village that's being targeted by face-peeling aliens. It's not the best tourist destination right now.
The mystery of the Victorio Peak treasure.
Some vintage observations about Iceland.
How to make funeral flatbreads, Viking style.
The WASPs and Air WAACs of WWII.
Rats as archivists.
Mars is spinning increasingly faster, and scientists are sitting around scratching their heads.
The 17th century explosion that nearly destroyed Beijing.
How a book can kill you.
Hank the Tank, the terror of Lake Tahoe, has finally been captured.
Five little-known Victorian inventors.
The child with a dollhouse gravestone.
The diary of a volunteer nurse during WWI.
Oral stories that may be 10,000 years old.
That time Lord Byron tried to buy a 12-year-old girl. Some poets really know how to up the "Ick" factor.
A case of rival chiropodists.
The Victorian solicitor who founded Britain's first mosque.
The risen dead of the Himalayas.
The slave who mailed himself to freedom.
How "begger" became "beggar."
A visit to a pet cemetery.
A disappearance in the Alps.
An 1894 witchcraft trial.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a cautionary tale about skeletons. In the meantime, here's a classic folk song.
http://www.weirdus.com/states/alabama/stories/dollhouse_little_nadine/?fbclid=IwAR0_gLXW0LdvvdCUCWp9xpkKjlkSyizL66Oi1iucCqzRIGdB_cB-EMM8iBA
ReplyDeletealos, volunteer nurse link doesn't work.
https://orangebeanindiana.com/2020/01/06/the-dollhouse-grave-of-vivian-mae-allison/
ReplyDeletetyet another https://burialsandbeyond.com/2021/04/10/the-curious-world-of-dollhouse-graves/
ReplyDeleteThank you for the video. I was not aware of this artist, though I was very familiar with many of the songs.
ReplyDeleteThe Congo would be a good location for any of the 'Lost World' type stories, as I think it has been. The story of the witchcraft accusations in Salem, Ohio (surely a coincidence; or perhaps founded by people prone to believing in witches?), was interesting. It's good to know Culp fared well afterward and his accusers suffered a kind of justice for their claims. And I never liked Byron. Or any of the Romantic poets, for that matter. They always struck me as posers. Good poets, though.
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