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Enjoy this week's Link Dump!
And then we can all go shopping!
A brief history of footnotes.
How the camera threatened the private of Gilded Age Americans.
A look at tokens of death.
Building a 19th century Protestant church in Egypt.
The real-life characters of "The Great Escape."
I've long been amazed at how many old newspaper articles I've found about people drinking the contents of bottles without knowing what was in them, and instantly regretting that action for the very short period of the rest of their lives. By God, they're still at it.
The sad story behind some photos found in a thrift shop.
Doctors, cure your patients by scaring the bejeezus out of them.
People are finding all sorts of weird things in the Alps.
Why fairy tales begin with "Once upon a time..."
The birth of modern American summer vacations.
A tribute to Benjamin the Library Cat.
The French boy who became an Aboriginal man.
War crimes and an attack on a WWI hospital ship.
A visit to an envelope maker.
The internet and a wife's revenge from beyond the grave. This is an insane story.
An 18th century government fixer.
An ancient crocodile cult.
Living through the 1941 invasion of Hong Kong.
The strange history of "laughing gas."
Vivian Maier, reclusive street photographer.
Are mermaids actually fairies?
Mysterious symbols that may be from an unknown ancient culture.
Five places you are not allowed to visit.
The ramming of HMS Prince George.
The man who invented the modern Olympics.
In which Henry Ward Beecher discusses cats.
A haunted hotel in Yosemite.
The Aberfan tragedy.
That wraps things up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at some of the ghosts of the Tower of London. In the meantime, let's get Hawaiian.
The five forbidden places is a neat article. I didn't know about the seed-vault; I'll have to read more about who set it up and who constructed it. What on Earth do all the snakes on Snake Island eat? Each other? And the Andaman Islands have a fierce reputation for killing castaways; it goes back hundreds of years, that I know of. The attack on the World War I hospital ship shows that a certain mentality existed in German minds before Hitler made use of it. And Donald Pleasance - another actor whose roles were frequently at odds with his real character...
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