Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
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How 18 horses rewrote ancient history.
An important Elizabethan countess.
Mermaids in medieval churches.
The inventor of Coca-Cola.
Human relatives were in Europe far earlier than we thought.
Gladiator fights in Essex.
An assortment of vintage recipes.
The Little Ice Age.
The social activism of John Galsworthy.
Two siblings go on a robbery spree, big sister drops a dime on them. Families, eh?
The secrets of butterfly migration.
The case against psychotherapy.
The legend of an open polar sea.
Queen Charlotte's Epiphany Ball.
A 200-year-old bottle of urine has been discovered, and people have questions. Can't say I blame them.
The mystery of Coral Castle. I've often wondered why this site isn't talked about more.
A plane's mysterious disappearance.
The newest discoveries at Pompeii.
Mars is more like Earth than we thought.
The siege of Dunbar.
This isn't the skull of Cleopatra's half-sister. Sorry.
It's looking like an ancient mummy's curse didn't sink the Titanic, either. Double bummer.
A court has just ruled that elephants aren't people. No word on whether the elephants are insulted or relieved to hear that.
Evidence of prehistoric plant processing.
In praise of Satisfactory Mourning.
Graham Hancock's theory about the Easter Island statues.
An actress' cat cemetery.
A murderer's loyal friend.
The Circle C Cowboys of post-WWII Germany.
The story behind a church's hole in the wall.
That time when blimps descended upon Akron.
The mystery of why corny jokes are called "old chestnuts."
A Polish witch trial.
The mortuary roll of a medieval prioress.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at another case of ghostly revenge. In the meantime, let's get classical.
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