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This week, the Link Dump is proud to be hosted by the first Earthlings to reach the Moon!
You didn't really think it was Neil Armstrong, did you?
An unsolved 4th of July murder.
The murder of Mena Muller.
The murder of the Elling Woman. Good luck solving this one.
More evidence that Neanderthals were a lot less primitive than we thought.
That time they held a contest to determine which was superior: beer or water? Guess which beverage won?
How a rural English brewery wound up in North Korea.
Some particularly weird UFO accounts.
A huge medieval cathedral in Africa.
In related news, let's talk cat-faced aliens.
JMW Turner was not the world's greatest father.
To be honest, I've always been puzzled by the assumption that shellfish don't feel pain.
A carving recording the assassination of a 13th century abbot.
Eerie photos of British woods and moors.
When it was something of a fad to predict your own death.
1972: the longest year in history. And not just because "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" was being played everywhere.
Etiquette tips from 1939.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, was an odd duck.
The man who vanished during an Alaskan footrace.
A three-eyed Welsh calf finds a home.
Michelangelo as a forger.
Reprogramming the human body.
Juggling for the Donner Party. Oy.
Why they moved Thomas Becket's bones.
An ancient group of hippies.
The time the world fought over a bug.
Lizzie Borden's house has a new owner, and a lot of people aren't happy about that.
A lost Roman pyramid.
The magic of tattoos. I'm still not getting one.
Poe's role in American science. (I've been reading Tresch's book; it's the most valuable work about Poe in years.)
17th century "Cries of London."
The phenomenon of "terminal lucidity."
A look at ancient cataclysms.
A look at the 1948 London Olympics.
A look at Da Vinci's DNA.
Midway and the Pacific War.
A child's unsolved kidnapping.
If you're courting someone's maid, don't hide under the sofa. It will give people the wrong idea.
Nothing says "2021" quite like "Radioactive Hybrid Terror Pigs."
Hypnotism and Jack the Ripper.
Some newly-discovered Edward Lear poems.
The man who believed he had discovered an unlimited power source.
Why Henry VIII was not fond of Thomas Becket.
The unsolved Burger Chef murders.
Mars may have once been habitable.
The rise and fall of peanut butter and jelly.
The baffling disappearance of a tech genius.
The birth of the spiritualist movement.
The Marilyn Monroe conspiracy theory du joir.
A brief history of bourbon.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the sort of thing that happens when you have the bad luck to resemble an embezzler. In the meantime, here are Van Morrison and the Chieftains.
Some excellent article this time. The pictures of British woods and moors really are eerie. I once read a book by a wilderness photographer and it had a picture of a similar wood, and the author explained that he couldn't get his young daughter to explore the woods with him - and that he was actually relieved at the excuse not to go.
ReplyDeleteThe Nubian kingdoms that existed in the Dark and Middle Ages deserve more attention. They seem to have had advanced and unique cultures.
And when you write "Radioactive Hybrid Terror Pigs," I think, "Mmmm, super-bacon!" But, really, I'm not surprised. In Africa, boars were known as the most ill-tempered animals - Well, as bad as rhinos. Add radiation and a superiority complex, and the result won't be nice.