Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we wish our fellow Americans a happy 250th birthday!
The unveiling of the Victoria Cross.
A handy reminder that Robin Hood was no hero.
One really freaking long tennis match.
The motivations of Richard, Duke of York.
"Somebody's father" at the battle of Gettysburg.
Why we call it a "honeymoon."
The dog who loved trains.
Now that all other problems on Earth have been solved, scientists are busy building diving suits for cyborg cockroaches.
Life on 19th century Paris boulevards.
Photos of a vanished London.
Lois Marshall's last leap.
A look at America's 150th birthday.
Politics and theology in the Byzantine Empire.
The adventures of a 13th century couple.
How AI is helping decipher ancient scrolls.
An obituary that really speaks ill of the dead.
In search of Poe's "Tamerlane."
The journal of an American POW.
An "impossible" Assyrian artifact.
Ancient Roman UFOs.
Orangutan, heal thyself.
"Honeymoon Row" in Brooklyn Heights.
In 2020, something weird happened in the Milky Way.
The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of Lewis Carroll and biscuit tins.
What is an acronym, anyway?
The inspiration for "Save the Last Dance For Me."
The "Moon Hoax" of 1835.
Some fantastic images of the Universe.
The world's weirdest mushroom.
The fire-tamers of France.
The many lives of a ghost town.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a very troublesome goat's head. In the meantime, even though this song wasn't written for the Bicentennial, I'm old enough to remember this banger being everywhere during the summer of '76. It takes me back...
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