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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
This seemed like a suitably Strange Company way to anticipate Thanksgiving.
Al Capone and greyhound racing.
A plethora of American dragons.
A brief history of olive harvesting.
What it was like to be an ancient Roman gladiator.
Harvard and the body-snatchers.
How mistletoe became associated with Christmas kissing.
The zebra rock of Mars.
The mystery of the Bocksten Man.
A quadriplegic meets High Strangeness.
The philosopher satirized by Voltaire.
A visit to St. Botolph Without Aldgate.
An ancient Jewish kingdom in Africa.
The man who may have really been the first to circumnavigate the globe.
The earliest known "Jesus is God" inscription.
The earliest known alphabetic writing.
How Aztec Death Whistles affect your brain.
Neanderthals may have collected fossils.
The mysterious signal that preceded a massive volcano explosion.
The 1471 Siege of London.
The birth of marathon races.
Civilizations simultaneously collapsed during the Bronze Age, and we're not sure why.
A stuffed bird and an Arctic murder mystery.
More on near-death experiences.
Britain's Imperial Camel Corps.
The Earth could wind up ruled by octopuses. They couldn't possibly do a worse job than we have, and probably a whole lot better.
The CIA and the Martians.
The life of Simon Bolivar.
The papers of a Viceroy of India.
A look at Jacobite rings.
When the Moon had water and volcanoes.
The feminist who inspired "The Wizard of Oz."
Mysterious iron structures in Australia.
The opening of New York's Fifth Avenue.
The Welch family murders.
The Law goes after Luddites.
A woman's unsolved murder.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a man who disappeared twice. In the meantime, here's for all you fans of recorders.
The Jewish kingdom in Africa is an interesting read, though it seems very difficult to separate fact from legend. The Aztec whistles were probably for sacrifices, since they were found with sacrificial victims, but it's an interesting instrument, nonetheless. The American dragon stories are fun, but highly incredible. And Ridley Scott's movies sure have deteriorated in historical accuracy over the years. Remember "The Duellists"? Sigh.
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