Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
It's all in the family!
What the hell was the Deerness Mermaid?
Why clams are happy.
The mystery of the Pied Piper.
The strange story of an occult historian.
Another reminder of how little we really know about our own planet.
Abbott Parker was struck by lightning. And then things got really weird.
The skull rock on Mars.
What linguists think are the most beautiful English-language words.
VE Day celebrations in London.
Timbuktu librarians versus Al-Qaeda. (P.S. The librarians won.)
The journalist who broke the story of Germany's surrender in WWII--and then got fired for it.
Whale urine turns out to be pretty darn important.
Space keeps exploding, and scientists are up a tree.
The days of Britain's Bright Young Things.
A strange kidnapping in 1921 Los Angeles.
A Victorian deathbed scene that's very...Victorian.
The dogs of the Moscow Metro.
Some people are suggesting that the Antikythera mechanism isn't all that impressive. Spoilsports.
The origins of the phrase, "put your foot in your mouth."
The golden tombs of ancient Bulgaria.
The man who wanted to be sent to Auschwitz.
The latest Pompeii excavations.
When going to a state fair can be fatal.
So, you're an Ice Age traveler about to cross the Pyrenees. Here's what to pack.
The lost London Skylon.
VE Day in British newspapers.
A mysteriously tragic honeymoon.
A look at how Mongols governed.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the strange death of a diplomatic envoy. In the meantime, here's an all-star version of an old favorite of mine.
The Pied Piper has always interested me, though the fact that the rats weren't part of the original story is new to me. I like the St Vitus's Dance theory... 'Put your foot in your mouth' seems a logical variation of 'putting your foot in it'... I hope you include the conclusion of the 1921 Los Angeles kidnapping story; the first part was intriguing... And I am pleased to note that the word signifying a 'lover of cats' is among the most beautiful in the English language. (Your link to the London Skylon leads to the 'crossing the Pyrenees' story, just above it in the list.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for alerting me about the link. Fixed it!
DeleteI can't say that the Skylon impressed me much; for something with two sharp ends, it seemed pointless...
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