It's time for this week's Link Dump!
Please make yourselves at home.
A Maine ghost ship.
The once-famed Lyon Quintuplets.
Ermengarde de Beaumont, Queen of Scots.
A brief history of the word "yclept."
The man they just couldn't imprison.
It sounds like Shackleton's "Endurance" was a bit of a lemon.
"The idea that many panhandlers are secretly wealthy is, I'm sure, just an urban myth." Fun fact: There's a guy who's been panhandling in my area for God knows how many years, despite the fact that local amateur sleuths found out that he's actually a well-off guy with a pretty nice house.
A sad dollar princess.
The failed bank robber who became a tourist attraction. Another fun fact: An old boyfriend of mine was distantly related to Elmer McCurdy. He was quite proud of it, too.
Three lonely tombs.
The man who survived Martinique's doomsday.
The role of women in early American plantations.
The chemistry of witchcraft.
Preparing for winter in Early Modern England.
The dangers of virtually resurrecting the dead. Aside from the general creepiness of it all, I mean.
The color purple played a big role in the Georgian era.
It fascinates me how scientists never seem to think that just because they can do something, it doesn't necessarily mean they should do it.
A woman once became famous for photocopying her backside, which just shows what sort of world we live in.
Depression in the ancient world.
You never know what you'll find in a vulture nest.
Some very out-of-place ancient footprints.
The Wright brothers and their "practical machine."
The mystery of "idiot savants."
The walking statues of Easter Island.
The man with the world's longest fingernails.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a Ouija board experiment that, unusually enough, had a happy ending. In the meantime, I leave you with, uh, this.
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