Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
It's all here, in black and white.
The Great Gallaudet Library Prank.
Possible proof that we have souls.
The artist who painted nightmares.
The life of a 15th century queen.
Vikings were probably not very healthy.
The birth of the "future Young King."
The Dover Straits earthquake of 1580.
The often alien nature of Early Modern humor.
The fire at Madame Tussaud's.
The partnership between Lord Nelson and Thomas Hardy.
One of those "unsolved" murders that probably isn't all that mysterious.
Some ancient treasure that's really out-of-this-world.
That time when New Jersey was graced not just by the Jersey Devil, but a Wild Man as well!
The book written by a Carolingian duchess.
A journal covering an 18th century voyage to China.
Bristol and the Romantic Poets.
"Indecent advertisements" in public toilets.
The world's most NSFW salad.
Edith Wharton's haunted house.
An exoplanet with extremely weird weather forecasts.
A visit to a Scottish Victorian prison.
The mysterious energy of Egypt's pyramids.
That time when NASA turned detective.
A brief history of double features.
A brief history of seances.
In 1893, if you didn't have the money to bury your dead, you had a problem.
Why we think four-leaf clovers are lucky.
Yet more evidence that we don't know jack about ancient human history.
Norse mythology is pretty freaking old.
Mice perform first aid on each other.
Three Allied airmen who survived the unpleasant experience of falling to Earth without a parachute.
A 22,000 year old handcart?
Pretty much everything you need to know about the history of European personal hygiene.
Why it's called "Latin America."
The Monster of Headingley? Or a squirrel?
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an 18th century tragedy. In the meantime, here's another golden oldie. This is one of those songs that has been covered by a million different people, but I think this was the original version.
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