"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, November 21, 2025

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

While you read, enjoy a free concert by the Strange Company Choir.


OK, so maybe 3I/Atlas isn't that weird.

Yet another trunk murder.

A murderous madam.

A monument to a mysteriously drowned governor.

Medieval people didn't exactly share their homes with livestock.

Young Robert Louis Stevenson wasn't the most fun guy in the world.

A gang war in 1857 New York.

A child's abduction and murder in 1882 France.

The Beast of Benvarden.

Bumblebees and Morse code.

It's looking like life on Earth began a lot earlier than scientists thought.

A killer ancient comet.

Old photos of London at night.

A Georgian-era child star.

A brief history of diplomatic dining.

The murder of a "child bride."

The airport that inspires conspiracy theories.

The political importance of Colonial American coffeehouses.

A baby's paper shroud.

The tree that grew...women?

A "Hansel and Gretel" cottage in New York.

The complicated issue of sleeping fish.

Calvin Coolidge once saved a raccoon from becoming Thanksgiving dinner.

Yellowstone's tamest grizzly.

How the ancients described wind.

In search of sea serpents.

The origins of kissing.

The cat who was Louis Wain's muse.

What's inside the Moon.

That wraps it up for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll find some buried treasure.  In the meantime, here's some English folk.

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