Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where one of the Strange Company staffers shares our HQ's usual motto.
A "lost" manuscript about King Arthur has been discovered.
A cow that loved sausages not wisely but too well.
The London that never was.
The theory that our names can shape our appearance.
Meet what might be the weirdest animal in the world.
The Zambia rock revolution.
A brief look at life from 100 years ago.
A look at the Great Siege of Malta.
A brief history of Parisian telephones.
From hearse to chicken brooder.
Some really peculiar (and rather creepy) fossilized structures.
The archives of an antiquarian bookseller.
A walk along the Black Path.
Some new light on the Trojan War.
A weird Martian rock.
Four tragic teenagers.
Henry James in America.
What's a fable? What's a folktale? What's a myth? Answer: It's complicated.
The burial of a Mesolithic baby.
Revisiting "Brideshead Revisted."
Pennsylvania's apple-loving Bigfoot.
How Alexander the Great influenced Napoleon.
A haunted English pub.
The history of the word "beclown."
The court records of a "free woman of color."
Earth's magnetic field is getting weird.
The unusual clock of Corn Street.
A brief history of death masks.
The life of one of Gainsborough's sitters.
The mysterious death of Mary Tobin.
When grandpa goes on a killing spree.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a Scottish poltergeist. In the meantime, here's Linda & Co. There was a time when this song was something of a personal anthem of mine.
