Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Feel free to join the Strange Company staffers for a stroll around the grounds.
A particularly gruesome (and notorious) murder case.
Does Egypt have a second Sphinx?
15,000 years ago, kids were playing with clay.
How DNA in dirt is a boon for scientists.
Frank Lloyd Wright and the upside-down H.
3/I Atlas has probably been weird for a very, very long time.
It is my great pleasure to inform you that Newcastle upon Tyne has a vampire rabbit.
The mystery of 16 Psyche.
A deadly disaster in a cinema.
The relationship between humans and dogs goes way back.
Pro tip: Stealing antiquities is usually not the best career choice. Especially if you're a couple of dunderheads.
The mystery of Ohio's Serpent Mound.
People who took their Easter finery way too seriously.
The legendary Route 66.
A "mythical" city turns out to have been very real.
In praise of pedants.
A medium goes to Harvard.
Vintage photos of the Tower of London.
Why we've always been obsessed with crystals.
So maybe sharks don't exist.
The latest research on how dolphins communicate.
The fishy April Fool's Day.
Scientists are busy pondering why we have chins.
Evidence of an ancient Roman wine ritual.
65,000 years ago, Neanderthals nearly died out.
A plethora of Dick the Devils.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a woman's extremely puzzling death. In the meantime, here's, uh, this. God love ya, 1940s.
Arthur Barry: another person from history begging for a movie to be made about him. The story on dolphin communication is fascinating. The 'Stonehenge of the East' may very well be just the way cities were built in that culture. And two other lost towns: one Norwegian and one Mayan. Incredible! What interesting pictures of the Tower of London. The evidence about sharks 'could be interpreted one way, or the opposite'; science still has a bit of work to do there...
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