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It's the Link Dump Before Christmas!
And the Strange Company Santa Claus is almost here!
One of early 19th century America's most famous murders.
A restaurant with some of the most repulsive-looking food I've ever seen gets the treatment it deserves.
The world's first octopus farm is about to open. Not everyone is happy about that.
Decoding Dickens' "mystery texts."
In which we learn that there are professional ham sniffers.
Harold Lloyd's year-round Christmas tree. I love Christmas trees as much as anyone, but I think his was a bit over-the-top.
The discarded Yule Goat.
The fall of Antony and Cleopatra.
DNA and ancient mass migration.
A terrible winter in Colonial New England.
Some Christmas gift ideas from 1873.
Some Christmas jokes from 1910.
And here is a morbid Christmas poem.
The boy who inspired "The Exorcist."
A 16th century female pirate.
Did the mass-suicide at Masada really happen?
How an Estonian boulder became famous.
18th century shopping.
The man who invented cat litter.
A lost palace under Brussels.
A look at 18th century British governments.
Some Christmas burglars.
Supply chain problems in ancient Rome.
A brief history of eggnog. You're still not getting me to drink it.
Christmas in 19th century Mexico.
A ring with one of the earliest depictions of Christ has been found.
Victorians and their seances.
The latest on the Antikythera mechanism.
That time Australia lost a war to emus.
A look at stork lore.
The oldest surviving photo of the Moon.
More on the famed Ratcliffe Highway murders.
Why humane societies threw Christmas parties for horses. I wouldn't mind seeing those make a comeback.
Some holiday hero cats.
How to make Aphra Behn's favorite cocktail. And Charles Dickens' favorite punch.
Two Soviet space dogs.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a particularly unpleasant vampire. In the meantime, here's one of my favorite Christmas carols.
Merry Christmas ��
ReplyDeleteMost interesting about the palace under Brussels. I assume that most of what remains of the old building was its cellars, since the building's ruins were replaced with an open space.
ReplyDeleteThe hero-cats' story was a good one, though it was rather harsh on poor Mrs Richards, who was charged with vagrancy for being starving and homeless.