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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
As an aside, I suspect that everyone who's lived with cats is used to being awakened in this way.
What the hell was Trunko?
A marshal's unsolved murder.
Why "W" is sometimes silent.
How "snake oil" became a term for fraud.
Elizabethan witchcraft and the legal system.
The people obsessed with Find-a-Grave.
A submerged 2,000-year-old temple.
When election ballots were works of art.
One freaking big geoglyph.
A tiny, but elaborate, house in Pompeii.
The latest in the search for Noah's Ark.
A brief history of gremlins.
The fine art of being a British villain.
A look at the Qatar Digital Library.
The rediscovery of the graves of four Continental soldiers.
The mystery of "Syndrome X."
A mysterious mathematical genius.
The last chapter of the Vietnam War.
When your dead relatives come to tell you, "You're next."
Easter Island and the Earth's mantle.
The history of two prominent 18th century families.
The moon-eyed people of Appalachia.
Vintage London fogs and smogs.
Some really weird plants.
Captain Elton, who just couldn't stay buried.
Why you never want to cross paths with a mega-meteorite. Unless, of course, you like boiled oceans.
London's haunted pubs.
The man who may have been Britain's first black voter.
A lament for the lost art of letter-writing.
Artifacts of medieval women.
The first dedicated attack chopper.
The spider that changed astronomy.
The inn that's the seventh-most haunted place in the world. I had no idea there was a competitive ranking for such things.
The notorious Hammersmith Ghost.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a Halloween mystery. In the meantime, here's a cute little instrument that I'd never heard of until the other day.
That Slate article about Srinivasa Ramanujan was so fascinating!
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