Don't be a dunce! Read this week's Link Dump!
History's heaviest conventional bombs.
Another one for the "re-writing human history" file.
New York City's strangest riot.
The final shots of the Civil War were fired in the Arctic.
The oldest known human fingerprint.
The portraits of Emily Dickinson.
Annie Londonderry's bicycle revolution.
The London Monument.
The magical sea coconuts.
When you want a pension so badly you'll marry a corpse.
A cab driver's unsolved disappearance.
Seagulls may be getting drunk on ants. Now, there's a sentence I never thought I'd write.
A Renaissance villa in the Bronx.
Yet another "rejected suitor" murder.
The man who invented modern zoos. For animals and humans.
A 19th century Indian novelist.
The importance of garnets.
In search of Madagascar's man-eating tree.
The world's largest jewelry robbery.
A farewell letter from 1796.
The long history of the slop bowl.
The long history of zombies.
The time Boston had a red snowstorm.
The life of Margaret Tudor.
A brief history of Marseille.
The significance of some 23,000 year old footprints.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a very strange being from medieval England. In the meantime, here's a bit of modern Celtic folk.
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