Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
We have tea!
A haunted historic cabin.
A haunted historic inn.
The life of a 15th century Duchess of Milan.
The saga of the Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
The legacy of Flannery O'Connor.
The debate over "recovered memories." I know someone who once went under hypnosis, and "recovered" memories of things that I know for a fact never ever happened. The whole experience screwed up her mind big time, and, incidentally, caused a heck of a lot of trouble within my family. Just saying.
The auriculas of Spitalfields.
Winston Churchill and the witch hunt.
A French submarine disaster.
A late-Georgian era country doctor.
A dangerous quack medicine.
America's worst dust storm.
The medieval holiday of Hocktide.
What we can learn from ancient kitchens.
A one-legged man attacked a one-armed man, and things got complicated.
Archaeologists are looking for Buddha.
An early mass extinction event.
A mechanical dog from ancient Egypt.
An "unprecedented" hoard from the Ice Age.
An "experimental" weaving station from early 20th century India.
Dessert recipes from the days of WWII rationing.
The politics of pedestrianism.
The photo gallery at the New York morgue.
Medieval castles were cleaner than you might think.
A brief history of Monaco.
AI discovers an ancient civilization.
The airman who fell 18,000 feet and lived to tell the tale.
The mystery of why we don't remember our babyhood.
A secret from King Tut's tomb.
Picturing an ice-free Antarctica.
The final years of former social queen Caroline Astor.
When French Indochina went to war.
Was Michelangelo an art forger?
Why they're called "soap operas."
In which we learn that Mona Lisa is a vampire.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a death that was either an unusually elaborate suicide or a bizarre murder. In the meantime, here's Nessie!
Very good articles. I can see why Churchill would be incensed at the witchcraft trial; in peace-time, he might merely have grumbled at it, but in war-time, things become a bit more serious. Duchess Bianca of Milan sounds like a superb stateswoman and administrator; it's wonderful that her husband appreciated her qualities and that it was a happy marriage - despite his affairs. And I have long championed the notion that people in the Middle Ages were cleaner - and more sensible - than people today think. It began when I read in a book about medieval English houses that cleaning latrines and cess-pits was a very lucrative and specialised trade.
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