Weekend Link Dump

 

Welcome to the Link Dump!

This Friday's host gained a measure of fame for fairly obvious reasons.

The legend of Cat Man's Grave.

Evidence of a massive megaflood.

How the Big Apple became a city of brownstones.

The question of how many human rights should be granted to the dead.  As a side note, I have often wondered where the line is drawn between "archaeological excavation" and "grave-robbing."

The woman who has spent her life at Auschwitz.

Harriet Tubman goes to war.

A mystery grave in Pennsylvania.

If you're good at decoding ancient languages, here's how to earn a cool million.

The footprints of people fleeing an ancient volcanic eruption.

The beetles who imitate ants.

The rediscovery of Archimedes.

An American general, explorer, and spy.

A critique of funeral fashions.

The mystery of near-death experiences.

The mystery of ancient South American caves.

A tale of discipline and heroism at sea.

Ice Age mammoth bone structures.

Exploring an ancient underwater world.

The raising of a Tudor warship.

The papers of a British official in India.

The latest theories about the lost colony of Roanoke.

The mercurial tomb of China's "First Emperor."

Why sleeping pets (and people) wake up when you stare at them.

A collection of books that don't exist.

The possible link between "ghost lights" and earthquakes.

Solving a mystery about the Stone of Destiny.

Haggis is not a creature that lives in the wild, which just goes to show you can't believe in anything anymore.

The diaries of a Holocaust victim.

Benjamin Franklin's first stay in London.

A "fiery hell on earth" in 1861 London.

There are ancient statues of lizard people, and people naturally have questions.

If super-creepy medieval tombs are your thing, here's the link for you.

If you've been longing to read about 66 million-year-old fish vomit, enjoy.

And if you want to know more about ancient glowing bowels, you're in for quite a treat.

A cemetery's haunted phone booth.

A heroic dog in the Alaskan wilderness.

The mystery of underwater UFOs.

The ship that sank carrying millions of dollars worth of gold.

Did you know that there's such a thing as "fish addiction?"  Me neither.

Shrewsbury and the Wars of the Roses.

A feud leads to two murders.

That time when Russia and Norway nearly began a nuclear war.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a corpse that really knew how to take care of itself.  In the meantime, here's some Haydn.