Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
And later, feel free to join the Strange Company staffers for a stroll.
The last of the Dionne quintuplets. (I have to admit, I didn't know any of them were still living.)
The last of the medieval Minnesingers.
Mongolia, where dogs are both sacred and profane.
How Josiah Wedgwood went from pottery to politics.
Why our mouths have roofs rather than ceilings.
In which we learn that peacocks have lasers in their tails.
The narrator whispers, "Maybe they had boats."
It seems that ancient Romans camped out in the ruins of Pompeii. An eerie thought, really.
You wouldn't want to breathe prehistoric air.
A new book reexamines WWI.
The UFOs of Rendlesham Forest.
The strange death of attorney Jonathan Luna.
Desi Arnaz, television revolutionary.
A mysterious shipwreck survivor.
Solving the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus.
A "swashbuckling Tudor mercenary."
An actor with a devilish grin.
Terrorism in 1890s Paris.
A brief history of the word "dude."
Things Jane Austen disliked.
"Spirit in the Sky," the song that just won't go away.
Bow Cemetery in summer.
The Susquehanna "mammalian monsters."
A look at Japanese cat lore.
How DNA sent German police on a wild goose chase.
19th century sun stroke victims in the morgue.
The invention of corn dogs.
Just when you think the CIA can't get any weirder...
The papers of a noted philologist.
A "lost" story by Mark Twain.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a very touchy ghost. In the meantime, here's the one and only Spike Jones.
And thank you so much - again - for sharing my little tale! 🫶🏻
ReplyDeleteThere is still one Dionne left.
ReplyDeleteThere is a 261-page book about the word 'dude'. How much can one write about it? Really? The fact that it may come from Yankee Doodle is most interesting. Roy D'Arcy: how many actors today will be as once-famous and soon-forgotten as he? You can almost hear the creak of wood and canvas in Luny's paintings, eh? And the Dionnes; who would have thought that simply being born in fives would lead to fame and ordeal? And about getting to Sulawesi? I'm with you. As Holmes said, "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is likely the truth." And he might have added, 'Go forthe obvious solution first.' But please, no Spike Jones. Please.
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