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Welcome to the first Link Dump of Autumn 2022!
The Strange Company staffers are late returning from summer vacation. Typical of them.
A baby mix-up with a happy ending.
A school in India has a new student.
Prehistoric stone tools from a previously-unknown civilization.
Corpse-hunting on a New York river.
The dubious joys of temperance melodrama.
A structure near Prague that's older than Stonehenge.
In 1978, a Navy frigate was attacked by an enormous (and still mysterious) monster.
Believe it or not, we're still uncovering dreadful details about Nazi death camps.
That time when Londoners cracked down on freak dances.
When it looked like America might lose WWII.
The last time a king was buried in Westminster Abbey.
A newly-discovered cave that's something of an ancient time capsule.
When Japanese time met a European clock, and things didn't go too well.
There are few foods I love more than sourdough bread, but even I wouldn't want to eat any baked by a 19th century miner.
How nomads helped shape civilization.
JMW Turner's lifelong friendship with Henry Trimmer.
A UFO crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014. And people would like to find it.
For this week in Russian Weird, crop formations come to Lake Baikal.
How the Bronx got its name.
The sounds of meteorites crashing into Mars.
When ancient Rome had a monster problem.
The last days of John Keats.
A possible explanation of the "Wow!" signal.
Autumn fashions from 1822.
A very strange murder mystery.
Propaganda and the murder of Jane McCrea.
The last of the Spitalfields Market cats.
The adventures of HMS Nautilus in 1807.
Some autochromes of Tsarist Russia.
A "witchcat" gets away with murder.
The attack on Sempringham Priory in 1312.
Lady Arbella Stuart, the woman who nearly became Queen of England.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look one of those murder mysteries that are seemingly without any clues. In the meantime, here's some Telemann.
Hate to piss on the clip from A C Clarke's Mysterious World but a Colossal Squid 40 ft long had hooks/claws that match those found by the officer from the Stein, no 45 meter critter is needed.
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Whatever attacked the USS 'Stein' isn't something I would want to run into in the middle of an ocean. The 'Wow!' signal still baffles me: not its origin but the interest over it; it always strikes me as something to say 'Huh' over, and then move on... And I chuckled over the origin of the name Bronx. I learned about that on an episode of "All in the Family", when Mike and Gloria were going with Archie to look at a possible home there for the young couple. Mike tried to explain the name's origin to Archie, who figured there had to be a more disgusting story behind it.
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