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Welcome to our Friday Link Dump!
Where everyone is guaranteed a good time!
Why the hell was Stonehenge built?
Napoleon's last years, as described by his doctor.
Don't try to steal a kiss from a maid who knits.
A death at the Tower of London.
Some handy tips for the next time you have to scrub thousands of years of bird poop from an ancient temple.
Gluttony in the 18th century.
The mystery of two women of the Old West.
The man who fought with a ghost.
The archaeology of plastic.
Animism and the ancient Celts.
A Vietnam soldier's strange disappearance.
A kingpin's strange disappearance.
A girl's really strange disappearance.
The adventures of Betty the Hobo Cat.
The adventures of the Duchess of York's wolf.
A possible sign of intelligent life beyond our planet.
A brief history of hypodermic drug administration.
A brief history of baby walkers.
The sounds of the Stone Age.
Prohibition and poisonous illicit alcohol.
The Hatimura Blast.
A complicated case of false imprisonment.
The CIA's UFO files.
Contemporary newspaper reporting about the Spanish Flu.
The brothers who picked fights with sharks.
When witchcraft was used to try to kill a king.
A drawing of a pig is the earliest known cave art.
A first-person account of the Indian Indenture Trade.
A Polish woman's strange death in Egypt.
An American woman's strange death in Philadelphia.
A UFO researcher's strange death in Miami.
The horrifying case of Gennie Pilarski.
The mistress of Napoleon III.
A memorial to an early 19th century murder victim.
Body snatching in Essex.
China's English town.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unknown person's mysterious death. In the meantime, let's get medieval.
A sad case, that of Mark Dennis in the Vietnam War. It's bad enough servicemen disappearing; that happens all the time in war. But for there to be such a mystery about it is very strange and frustrating.
ReplyDeleteAnd 18th century England was noted for its big eaters and drinkers. My kind of place. (At least the eating part.)
There’s a reason why the 18th century is also noted for being the Golden Age of Gout.
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