Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Don't forget to visit the Strange Company HQ gym!
The true story behind the movie "Nuremberg."
A murderous landlord.A medieval duke's skeleton documents his very violent murder.
Seriously, is there anything on this freaking planet that isn't a freaking front for the freaking CIA?!
The return of Istanbul's cat doors.
We may have gotten Vikings all wrong.
A naval disaster at Gibraltar.
Famous literary hoaxes.
It turns out that Babylonians knew the Pythagorean Theorem.
The cat and dog massacres of WWII.
A mysterious ancient script.
The city of Coventry during the Wars of the Roses.
Jack the Ripper's most enigmatic victim.
Mysterious "voids" in the Giza Pyramids.
The world's oldest paranormal organization.
A possible "Inca spreadsheet."
A 14th century poem may have fooled us about the Black Death.
In this week's 3I/Atlas news...you guessed it, it's still weird.
Using AI to catalog manuscripts.
A brief(ish) history of personal hygiene.
An ancient man who very nearly took it all with him.
The medieval royal party that came to a very bad end.
Mars exploration's "oopsie" moment.
Rewriting the history of Egypt's New Kingdom.
Exploring the secret language of animals.
William Caxton, printing press pioneer.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet an Edwardian ghost. In the meantime, I'll bet you didn't have "piano-playing octopus" on your WLD bingo card.
The story of 'Varna Man' is fascinating. It seems to me he belonged to quite an advanced culture for that time period and location. The slaughter of all teh cats and dogs at the beginning of World War Two in Britain is very tragic. People appeared to panic in this aspect but in no other - and it took the government and civil servants to argue the steady and reasonable course. Good for them. I'd not heard of the St Brice's Day Massacre before; it appears that Aethelred the Ill-advised lived up to his name in this case.
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