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While you read this week's Link Dump, enjoy another performance by the Strange Company choir!
Why the hell did the Maya civilization collapse?
What the hell is the oldest known archaeological site? The answer is...complicated.
Where the hell did a billion years go?
If you don't take banshees seriously, you should.
Human body parts which had a strange afterlife.
Kids may have been the first prehistoric artists.
Pro tip: getting drunk and summoning ghosts is rarely a good idea.
Clues that humans were making clothing 120,000 years ago.
If Dada is too normal for you, meet Fluxus.
Using Mozart to treat epilepsy.
Visualizing Scotland under ice.
An ancient tiger god is still at work in India.
How not to drive a stagecoach.
What animals may think of death. Personally, I've always thought they are far more capable of abstract thinking than we obtuse humans realize.
In which we learn not to serve Madame Palatine any soup.
Some misunderstandings about the Vikings.
The charming widow and the mourning racket.
Get outta my face, Zuckerberg.
A narrative of 9/11.
A theater that memorializes a teenager's death.
Big Bertha the Confidence Queen.
A particularly gruesome--and unsolved--murder of a family.
The secret world of Bach's music.
Another gruesome, unsolved family murder.
You can now download the universe.
It may please you to know that scientists are keeping busy studying squirrel personalities.
Commemorating the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante.
Contemporary news reports about the infamous Belle Gunness.
This week in Russian Weird presents what may be the ultimate body-snatching story.
Post-Hitler Germany was a very strange place.
A ghost in Yorkshire. Well, maybe not.
A brief history of the miniskirt.
The historically significant Bacton Altar Cloth.
Why Napoleon had a thing about eagles.
The lighthouse at the end of the world.
Franz Liszt, rock star.
The boy who was raised by wolves.
A breakfast in British India.
Meet the world's deadliest cat breed. They're among the cutest, too.
The legends surrounding a murder/suicide.
The legend of Bip Vawn.
Some famous Celtic fight songs.
The grave of a "first-class eccentric."
The once-famous murder of Harriet Lane.
A teenager murders his stepmother.
A realtor's bizarre unsolved murder.
That wraps up this week's festivities. See you on Monday, when we'll look at a man who loved books not wisely, but too well. In the meantime, what do you get when you combine Mongolian throat singing and Latvian drumming? This. Someone in the YouTube comments put best: "If we ever go to war with aliens, this should be our battle song."
Latvians and Mongols - together again. How on Earth do some of these disparate elements get together? A very interesting sound, though I'd like to hear more, to see how much variety they can accomplish.
ReplyDeleteBach in space. Technically, Bach is of course superb, and artistically, too. But much of what he composed strikes me as better for someone to play than to hear, better for education than good feelings. Give me Mozart or Vivaldi, Vanhal or Boccherini...
Auli--the Latvian group in the video--gets into some pretty deep international waters at times. They do a little traditional folk, a little contemporary rock, and a little, "What in hell is this?"
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