Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
We'll even get poetic.
Some home decor from the Tudor era.
Leigh Hunt, the critic that royalty just couldn't shut up.
This week in Russian Weird: An alien revenge massacre in Siberia? And the CIA figures in all this. Because of course they do.
Related: An astronomer struggles with the UFO mystery.
A "layer-out" of the dead.
Princetonians saved "The Great Gatsby," although I for one wish they hadn't. I had to read it in college (and write a paper about it!) and I absolutely hated the damn thing. If you've never read it, don't, unless you enjoy pretentious writing about boring and extremely unpleasant people making each other's lives miserable.
Eerie digital scans of the Titanic.
A new clue about the history of metallurgy.
A mysterious death in Pennsylvania.
Remembering the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.
The memorials that tell the history of an English manor.
B.F. Skinner and babies in boxes.
The complicated history of Bergen-Belsen.
The Scottish village that's a UFO hotspot.
In which Mary II writes to William III.
The English city that has a strange underground world.
Creating a Martian time machine.
The life of an 18th century soldier.
The wild world of 19th century journalism.
An ex-monk turned princely con man.
Meanwhile, scientists want to digitally recreate worm brains, thus proving that it takes all sorts to make the world.
Ghosts and the "Stone Tape Theory."
A wife murders her husband...in the middle of a courtroom.
A visit to Stepney, 1963.
A first-person account from a Titanic survivor.
Why we can't get away from unicorns.
The mudlarks of the Thames.
Where we get the phrase, "Hell in a handbasket."
The mystery of "Japan's Atlantis."
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one very special sea lion. In the meantime, here's...uh, this.
I think that Edna Ferber said F. Scott F. wrote about "unimportant people doing unimportant things". I agree, but he sure could write pretty sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI have a fondness for "The Great Gatsby", if only because it portrays the 1920s at its height, which I believe was the last optimistic decade. As for the alien massacre in Siberia: if anyone took this seriously, wouldn't more have been done about it? And I also have a liking for King William III, an under-rated monarch, I think; he was a keen soldier, very brave, but only a mediocre general. His principal quality in warfare seemed to be perseverance, and that got him through most things. I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie or tv series about him. In the words of a Monty Python advert for just such a series: 'the story of King William III, the only British monarch who hasn't been done yet'...
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