Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
And dance party!
A family's mysterious disappearance is finally solved.
The library that employs bats.
An old church in a new light.
The secret trials of Nazi POWs.
An 18th century royal scandal.
The artistic legacy of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
A Los Angeles man who may have been part hero, part villain.
An "affair of honour" in the Crimean War.
That beloved tradition of hating Henry Symeonis.
The fall of Thomas Cromwell.
A brief history of haunted televisions.
Yet another "pushing back human history" discovery.
The Steerage Act of 1819.
A brief history of the pork taboo.
A chat between professional mourners.
Do we owe human evolution to...handbags?
A visit to Chiswick House.
A sailor and his slush fund.
When iguanas sailed the world.
How Moses might have parted the Red Sea.
Why you might want to rethink your ambition to live on a base in Antarctica.
The "hag" of our nightmares.
St. Patrick's Day wasn't always green.
The tomb of an unknown pharaoh has just been discovered.
The Dakota Uprising of 1862.
Ancient humans around the world simultaneously invented farming, and we have no idea how that happened.
The woman who restored the faces of WWI veterans.
Yet another marriage ends in murder.
A brief history of air conditioning.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a child with some weird talents. In the meantime, here's a typical banger from Rockpile. I loved that band back in the day.
The method of the Portuguese library of protecting its books against insects is very interesting, and undoubtedly works. Covering tables and washing floors is cheaper than losing precious books. The explanations of the parting of the Red Sea (there have been numerous ones over the years) and the other miracles of Moses, still make him the master of the miraculously coicnidental. The newly discovered pharaoh's tomb seems to suggest that his kingdom wasn't quite the wealthy and prosperous one led by more famous kings. And the attack on Odessa was interesting: I like reading about the 'sidelines' in major conflicts.
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