Welcome to the Link Dump! Meet our host for this week.
Yes. It's SIR Guy to you.
Watch out for the Hugging Mollies!
Watch out for the Wood Wide Web!
Watch out for the Beast of Bray Road!
If you visit the Congo rain forest, watch out for dinosaurs!
The British Parliament and the American Revolution.
The woman who marketed Van Gogh.
Valentine's Day, Egyptian style.
The world's most depressed fast food mascot.
Why it's "dead weight."
Paranormal activity? Or earthquakes?
The lost cities of the Amazon.
The largest known structure in the universe. No, no, it's not your local Costco, but it always seems that way to me when I'm stuck in a checkout line longer than the Great Wall of China. But I digress.
The scout and the con man.
The grave of a girl who never existed.
The Baroque adventures of Augustus the Strong.
A weird sequel to a death-bed wedding.
Robbing the King's treasury.
When government documents get lost at sea.
The mystery of the "Sunshine Lady."
The language of cows.
The painter known as the "Wild Swiss."
Pro tip: Romantic gestures made to someone you barely know seldom turn out well.
How Valentine's Day was celebrated way back when.
A 15th century Valentine's letter.
How the Middle Ages influenced modern romance.
Elvis Presley, telepathic demigod.
The grave of a six-fingered Neolithic shaman.
A spooky castle in Scotland.
George III's secret son.
The musical that was financed by bird poop. And, apparently, that turned out to be quite appropriate.
True-crime researchers obsess over the identity of Jack the Ripper. Archaeologists obsess over where Alexander the Great is buried. Good luck with all that, kids.
A mysterious murder in Maine.
A tainted tonic in Georgia.
The kidnapping of the Coors Brewery heir.
Meet the people who are so anxious to collect a parasitic fungus, they're willing to risk being struck by lightning.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet an early 19th century adventuress. In the meantime, here's Rascal Flatts:
"he grave of a six-fingered Neolithic shaman."
ReplyDeleteIf they were impressed by her I've got a couple cats that would blow their minds.