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Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
While you read, enjoy some music from the Strange Company HQ orchestra.
St Jadwiga of Anjou, who also happened to be King of Poland.
Some vintage student confessions.
If you like fart jokes, boy, have I got the post for you.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the mystery of an alleged spy whale.
Examples of people who were buried with their pets.
Four examples of devotion to duty.
Eight historic doors.
When "bookworm" was an insult.
That time when Voltaire drank bull's blood. For science!
Tom Thumb in Tattershall.
The oldest known reference to an eclipse.
The agricultural guide that landed its author in prison.
The 1957 eruption of the Capelinhos volcano.
The first domestication of horses.
A tale of buried treasure in India.
A housewife with a deadly secret.
A tour of the orchards of Kent.
The significance of a 6,000 year old bridge.
The fashions of September 1824.
The mystery of the Fawn Hoof Mummy.
A look at the Little Gaelic People.
The fake armies of WWII.
A tribute to reference books.
A strange rock in Saudi Arabia.
Crows are pretty darn smart.
The first recreational drugs.
A brief history of yerba mate.
A brief history of air guitar.
War and nationalism.
Scotland Yard vs. the body snatchers.
A community of medieval cave-dwellers.
Medieval England's female blacksmiths.
Please do not let your cow eat mattresses.
How Paris took over the fashion world.
The roots of trick-or-treating.
Why "X" represents a kiss.
One of the world's great dollhouses.
Was it mercy killing or murder?
That wraps it up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious Mad Bomber. In the meantime, here's music from a guy that I'm pretty sure didn't murder Mozart.
O loved seeing the article about yerba mate here at Strange Company! I'm from the extreme south of Brazil, bordering Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, we are known as "gauchos" and yerba mate is our typical drink, a community, mystical and ancestral link that is part of our daily lives.
ReplyDeleteThe Duke of Chandos: it's sad that his palace lasted a mere twenty years; all that skill and art lost so quickly and enjoyed so little. On the subject of treasure - buried treasure - there must be tons of precious coins and gems hidden around the world - certainly at the bottom of the sea - awaiting discovery. And it seems a bit tough that the Nepalese author received permission to publish his book, only to be imprisoned for it.
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