Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
And greetings from the Strange Company mail room!
A teenager who died in the American Revolution has finally been identified.
An ancient Roman fossil collector.
The strange case of the "Leavenworth Look-Alikes."
The legend of what may have been the first underwater tunnel.
Casual snapshots of the Romanovs.
The strange case of the Beale Ciphers.
A diplomat's widow with murder on her mind. Lots of murder.
A tour of Icelandic turf houses.
A mysterious death in a toilet. Yeah, definitely not how you want to go.
If it's time for the Link Dump, that means it's time to rewrite human history again.
The murder of a "squeeze fiend."
Hard times for body-snatchers.
Earl of Bolingbroke, disappointed father.
Let's talk Viking hygiene.
How to hold a medieval tournament.
A human "sixth sense."
A visit to an "island full of idiots."
Football culture in Early Modern Britain.
An ancient Maya scientist.
A giant bird in Kentucky?
A real-life inspiration for "Les Miserables."
The medieval custom of "proxy marriages."
Some influential medieval women.
How trees are archives.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a man who gained brief fame for being anything but a picky eater. In the meantime, here's some vintage Cyndi Lauper.
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