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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's Friday, so you know what that means.
It's Link Dump showtime!
Yet another tragic love affair.
A brief history of dates. (The sticky, rather disgusting fruit; not a night out on the town.)
The famed Pittsburgh Potty.
We're still learning things about King Tut's tomb.
We're still learning things about Otzi the Iceman.
A disputed sketch is finally vindicated.
A look at smart, creeping slime. Personally, I prefer my slime dumb and stationary. And somewhere far away from me.
Some remarkable ancient bronze statues have been discovered.
The Collier family and the East India Company.
That time the Germans bombarded Cape Cod.
Some mystical walks through Wales.
The National Park Service doesn't want you licking toads.
The oldest known written sentence. And it says something about history that it's all about head lice.
The Hittite deity and the Roman Army fort.
The legend of the turtle and the shark. And it's not so legendary after all.
The night the stars fell.
The 1784 ball at Carlton House.
That time when French winemakers took weevils to court.
The man who invented the glass coffin.
The canaletto of the Surrey Canal.
Jack the Ripper in the contemporary press.
The oldest book in the Americas.
Some really bad license plates.
How the British Tommy was born.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a Scottish cousin of Gef the Mongoose. In the meantime, here's Dwight Yoakam. I love "Sloop John B," and I love that Bakersfield Sound.
The slime mold sounds like it could be the basis of a "Star Trek" episode (and 'cognition without a brain'... I know some people like that.) I wouldn't mind seeing a Leonid meteor shower like the one from 1833; I've not heard of that spectacular example of it before. As for Tommy Atkins, I've heard that it was the Duke of Wellington who suggested the name for the army form.
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