Friday, September 27, 2024

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

After you finish reading, you're all invited to the Strange Company HQ game room.



The legend of a Louisiana "wild girl."

The historical importance of cloves.

Imagine finding out one day that you have a cellar full of ancient graves.

An ancient seed grew into something wonderfully weird.

The story of that tech giant who drowned when his yacht mysteriously sank keeps getting weirder.

Some unknown music by Mozart has been discovered.

The space mystery of the "flyby anomaly."

Down a medieval well.

A brief history of pet cemeteries.

Papal conclaves gone wild.

The origins of the dinosaur-killing asteroid.

Time-traveling at the British Museum.

One of the U.S. Air Force's less distinguished moments.

More Nazca geoglyphs have been discovered, and boy are they weird.

Some strange things that have been found in walls.

The life of Marie of Luxembourg.

The real discoverer of penicillin.

Evidence of a Neolithic society in Morocco has been discovered.

A very unfortunate family.

The significance of mummy cheese.

Elephants talk to each other, but we can't hear it.

The life of a 19th century Baptist missionary in India.

The rules of mourning for Paris widows, 1894.

Ancient humans and dinosaur footprints.

The heiress who may have been the model for the Statue of Liberty.

Cat memes go way back.

The sad, and probably short, life of Lady Mary Seymour.

Some haunted artworks.

Traveling the Silk Roads.

18th century pies really didn't mess around.

The mysterious poisonings of several children.

Yet another domestic murder.

An archaeologist's message in a bottle.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll bring on the Welsh Weirdness!  In the meantime, here's one of those songs I remember from way back when.

2 comments:

  1. The confusion around the discovery of penicillin is interesting. It's similar to that of insulin: Banting and Macleod were given the Nobel prize for it, and each shared credit with his assistant, respectively Best and Collip; a lot of trouble and ill will. Papal conclaves must have been a tense time in Rome, and Europe in general...

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  2. Oh, and that new music from Mozart is a wonderful discovery, but it ruins my complete Mozart cd collection!!

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