Welcome! Our hosts for this week's Link Dump will be two members of the crack Strange Company HQ research team.
A notorious Appalachian murder.
A look at glacial archaeology.
An examination of a musical conspiracy theory.
The long-unsolved disappearance of three small boys.
And here is your unparalleled opportunity to view the contents of an ostrich's stomach.
The Case of the Disappearing JFK Wreath is finally solved.
A visit to the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant.
Ancient puppets in El Salvador.
Some very weird natural disasters.
When cremation goes very very wrong.
A 7,000 year old "alien head."
The doomed Rendel Cruisers of the Chinese Navy.
A banned play by Oscar Wilde.
When you go looking for tortoises and find human remains instead.
The Wizard of Oz visits the USSR.
The rise and fall of a notorious rock & roll muse.
A famous aviation mystery has apparently been solved.
Hitler vs. the Edelweiss Pirates.
Nobody seems to know why coffee is called "a cup of Joe."
The records and manuscripts that went down with the Titanic.
The last of the Jacobites.
Why people freeze wedding cakes.
The "Father of American Cavalry."
That time when the sun turned blue.
Reappraising Tom Wolfe.
The patron saint of ice skating. And pain, which is not illogical when you read her story.
What the well-dressed woman was wearing in March 1825.
Divorce in 19th century France.
What may have been the real start of the American Revolution.
The unsolved murder of the Short family.
Naming supernatural entities gets complicated.
Billy Possum vs. Teddy Bear.
Yes, coconut milk is milk. Sort of.
A photographer's final images of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
Anonymous phone calls, a disappearance, and a murder.
Why you wouldn't want to make Kitty Mulcahey mad.
An ancient female "extreme ascetic."
A woman's mysterious murder.
Meet New Zealand's Bug of the Year.
Meet the lecturer who uses sheep livers to predict the future.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusually puzzling double murder. In the meantime, here's one of those songs I haven't heard for years until I was accidentally reminded about it the other day.
The 19th century history of the Chinese Navy is a sad parallel to that of the Chinese Army: a lot of brave men, good ideas, plenty of corruption... I hadn't known that Cathy Smith was involved with Lightfoot (or, if I had, I'd forgotten); You'd think he would have known better. Henry Cardinal Stuart seems to have ended his dynasty with dignity. And the eruption of Mt St Helens is full of poignant moments, so many people dedicated to learning. The most astonishing I've found tale I've found is that of David Crockett's survival, walking through the ash clouds while narrating what he thought would be his last hours. And I'm coming to appreciate Cockburn's music more in my later years...
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