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This week's Link Dump is here!
Let's dance!
How the hell was Stonehenge built?
Robert Beale and the death warrant for Mary Queen of Scots.
The drowning of a Neolithic fisherman.
Strange stories connected with presidential crypts.
The Vatican may be holding Jewish Temple treasures.
Tales of love gone weird.
A distant star is being orbited by a bunch of mystery objects.
The capture of German Micronesia.
The social center of 19th century Paris.
Some bigamous brides.
How to make vintage recipes.
Colonial India and their breakfast curries.
So maybe the Black Death wasn't quite as deadly as we thought.
A look at Britain just before WWII.
The diary of a tragic castaway.
Let's talk dinosaur head colds.
The double lives of Deacon Brodie.
A look at the world of the Boggarts.
That time when people literally danced themselves to death.
Archival items relating to the murder of Lord Darnley.
The evidence behind a popular urban legend.
Edmund Hillary and the Yeti.
People who were killed by their own inventions.
The most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever found.
How Regency society depended on pilchards.
18th century grifters.
A newly-discovered Neolithic grave is making archaeologists very happy.
This week in Russian Weird looks at some unorthodox art restoration. To be honest, I think the guard improved the painting considerably.
Yet another tragic marriage.
A Strange Company-style business model.
A Victorian mailman's bad Valentine's Day.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a 16th century man's very strange adventure. In the meantime, here's a Canadian singer I recently came across during my wanderings through YouTube.
I’m glad you found Mr Lund. I also stumbled across him a year or so ago. Quite good. A Canadian Roger Miller— high praise indeed. Shows up in rotation on Canadian country satellite radio... of course, Americans don’t listen to Canadian music...Ian Tyson, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Arcade Fire, Jane Siberry,...naw, nutin there.
ReplyDeleteIt may seem a waste that all those gas-masks were manufactured in Britain and never used - but I'd rather have all that effort wasted than used for what it was meant to be.
ReplyDeleteAnd the campaigns to take Germany's colonies in the Great War are interesting 'side-shows'. Considering their size and resources, the German islands in the Pacific were important for their navy, and therefore strategic.