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It's time for Friday's Link Dump!
Which means it's also time for the staff at Strange Company HQ to get their weekly payment.
The corpse in the shipping crate: the notorious Colt-Adams murder.
Why American chocolate isn't very good. A few years back, a friend who traveled through Europe brought us back some chocolates she had bought there. I couldn't believe the difference.
Please, somebody give me lots of grant money to conduct a study proving that if you slam a hammer on your thumb, it will hurt.
A Roman altar has been unearthed at Leicester Cathedral.
Greenland's winter delicacy.
The grave of multi-talented illustrator Peter Jackson.
Scientists with way too much free time on their hands investigated why people are scared of clowns.
Nobody wants to be executed, but you really would've hated being executed by Jack Ketch.
That time Grover Cleveland and his wife were attacked with a pancake.
A guy volunteered to be buried alive for 61 days, thus proving that it takes all kinds to make a world.
A smiling mini-sphinx in Egypt.
The grave of Jimmy the Marmoset.
A ghastly battle of flowers.
A body-snatching and a message in a bottle.
An "Art Nouveau" house in Romania...which turns out not to exist. Sorry, internet.
King Charles' coronation will be lacking the intestinal wax of sperm whales. Darn it.
An ancient stone circle where some pretty weird things go on.
The mysterious magician who inspired Ray Bradbury.
The "clothes optional" marriages of the 18th century.
An address to Queen Victoria from a student in India.
How to make the world's finest paper airplanes.
The only six photos we have of Venus.
The woes of being an 18th century MP.
It's a Roman dildo! No, it's a drop spinner! (When this story first broke, I was skeptical that this wooden object was a sex toy, for reasons I hope I don't have to spell out on this family-friendly blog. One word: "splinters.")
The cabbies shelters of Old London.
The Pacific War's biggest battle.
The diary of a 19th century female Russian art student.
The Oklahoma City bombing and the mysterious death of a policeman.
Recreating 2,500 year old booze.
The animal accomplices of medieval thieves.
A look at some wills of medieval women.
A Sumerian palace has been uncovered.
An ancient Roman soldier's paycheck.
The man who never saw a woman.
The icy agony of HMS Proserpine.
Japan has just realized it has 7,000 extra islands. These things happen.
The Big Coin Heist.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at not one, but two disappearances. In the meantime, here's my nominee for "best song recorded in an apartment stairwell."
Of late, I've really gotten into Mongolian throat singing.
Serious "best song recorded in an apartment stairwell" competition comes from The Honeycombs and "Have I The Right?", recorded at Joe Meek's 304 Holloway Road Studios.
ReplyDeleteJimmy the Marmoset must have been well-loved... It seems strange to me that King Charles's coronation would forego annointment with ambergris, since one doesn't have to kill a whale to get it. It's often found washed up on beaches. I think the altar found in Leicester fascinating; imagine people going to that same spot 17 centuries or so ago. And the cabmen's shelters look very homey; they could be 'tiny houses'...
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