Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
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The mysterious Jack the Strangler.
What may be the oldest known dice.
Money laundering in the art world.
The ongoing mystery of the missing scientists.
An ancient city may be even more ancient than we thought.
Benjamin Franklin in London.
The child soldiers of WWII.
The dark origins of fairy fiction.
That time when people thought they were made of glass.
That time when Chile (briefly) ruled the waves.
The days of body-snatching and burial reform.
The Soviets and the Cambridge Five.
A centenarian's adventurous life.
A legendary squid attack.
A dog gets a proper burial.
That time when the British Parliament burned down.
The surprisingly complicated history behind a murderer's preserved head.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a ghostly Satanic coven. Fun for the whole family! In the meantime, here's Tracy Nelson.
Interesting, as ever. The article about money laundering in the art world reminded me that one of the “experts” on BBC Television’s show “Bargain Hunt” was jailed last year for selling art to a suspected Hezbollah financier. Well, that’s surely too much even for the BBC 😉
ReplyDeleteThe Hull-Ottawa fire was unfamiliar to me; interesting bit of knowledge to learn. I never liked the Cambridge Five. It's very interesting about Charles VI's glass delusion; interesting and strange. And the disappearances in the U.S. connected (?) with UFOs. Probably nothing to the conspiracy theory, but intriguing nonetheless.
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