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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Or, as we like to call it here at Strange Company HQ, "The Catty News."
Faking your own death seldom works out well.
The Carbondale UFO incident.
The Manhattan alien abduction.
The education of a 15th century Italian girl.
This week in Russian Weird: One of their spy whales is on the lam!
Britain's Great UFO Hoax.
Some revolutionary spinning pebbles.
One really freaking big fungus.
Here's your chance to play 17th Century Death Roulette!
In case you're wondering how scientists spend their days, they are teaching rats to drive.
Eggs and shee-spies.
The world's first seed bank.
A goofy around-the-world hoax.
Before you hire lawyers, make sure they know which side they're on.
The whip-poor-will, omen of death.
A naked man commits some particularly gruesome murders.
Always make sure your spouse is dead before they're buried. It would avoid embarrassing complications.
All hail the scarlet tanager!
Places where you can travel back in time.
Descriptions of Early Modern natural catastrophes.
Memories are not just in our minds.
Whaling and the 19th century cosmetics industry.
England's Vagrancy Act of 1824.
The German-Soviet talks of 1940.
The saint who just couldn't stop levitating.
A needlework sampler with an export bar.
The Spanish vs. the Incan Empire.
The pubs of Old London.
Geology and aerial photography.
The legendary flights of Thomas Fitzpatrick.
The origins of the word "cheeseparing."
Elephants may like practical jokes.
Do we owe life on Earth to plate tectonics?
The mystery of the bamboo wagon in the glacier.
A beach I do not recommend visiting.
A woman's five-year pregnancy.
The return of medicinal leeches.
A letter from Joan of Arc.
Was there a silver lining to the Black Death?
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at some really bad real estate. In the meantime, here's an old English country dance tune.
Very interesting article on the Black Death, and its possible part in the expansion both of European exploration and conquest, and of technology. I know that it's believed that the plague led to cash-economy over service economies - paying by money, rather than by work - but had not heard of this theory. Stonehouse MP sounds like both a traitor and a fool; disappearing and starting again isn't as easy as the movies make out. Memories stored elsewhere in the body than the mind... I had an idea for a science fiction story about a race with genetically-inherited memory... And there is something child-like and innocent about birdwatching and birdwatchers' enthusiasm for glimpsing a little lifeform. Rather nice.
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