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It's time for this week's Link Dump!
And the cats have taken the best seats in the house, as usual.
A private journal and the Roswell crash.
How much did Burke and Hare's crimes pay?
In search of a forgotten California writer.
To put it succinctly, UFO research attracts some really strange birds.
Salvador Dali's Christmas cards seem particularly appropriate this year.
Farm workers are disappearing in Argentina.
A Transylvanian school of magic.
The ancient Roman Saturnalia.
The traditional Jewish Christmas Eve.
In which we have a fish domesticating a shrimp. You'll never look at your seafood platter the same way again.
When it was legal to kidnap child choir singers.
An unsinkable ghost ship.
The first known evidence of Egyptian gynecological treatment.
An assortment of medieval recipes. They're interesting, but on the whole I'd prefer a grilled cheese sandwich.
Who wouldn't want a Christmas card from an undertaker?
Australia's most haunted homestead.
One of Los Angeles' worst murders.
The sinking of the Berenice.
So maybe the Irish aren't Celts after all.
A 50 year old murder mystery which might still be solved. At least, it has a better shot than the 4,000 year old one below.
If you're hit by a meteorite, it might be best not to tell anyone about it.
19th century Christmas humor.
Beethoven and freedom.
Beethoven comes to early America.
The power of the beard.
The burial of a Neanderthal child solves an archaeological mystery.
Romania's weirdest mountains.
Phrenology just won't go away.
2020's most pathetic ghosts.
Shedding (a little) light on the Denisovans.
History's greatest military victory.
Solving a 4,000 year old murder mystery. Sort of.
Chicago's pioneering "girl reporter."
How archaeologists know where to dig.
The Cornell ghost experiments.
Some vintage letters to Santa.
A coded message written by the Zodiac Killer has been deciphered. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing about who he was.
And, finally: it's funny because it's true!
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious Christmas death. In the meantime, here's more of King's College.
The Russian Civil War is rather a speciality of mine: I have been reading and researching it for years. Anothger example of history's lost opportunities.
ReplyDeleteThe Battle of Cannae always makes me think that populations in ancient times must have been rather greater than historians suggest. How could Rome have lost 80,000 men in one battle yet replaced them and eventually won the war, unless they had much larger reserves of men upon which to draw?