Welcome to the latest Link Dump!
Our host for this week stole a pig, and away did run!
Reptiles are smarter than you might think.
The many lives of Anne Frank.
Scientists may have found Noah's Ark. Or maybe not. We shall see.
Solving the mystery of a missing mountain climber.
The Easter Bunny's controversial history.
1891 sea combat in the Pacific.
Science has found a way for humans to talk to dolphins. Poor dolphins.
What it was like to be a medieval court jester.
The global deluge of circa 4000 B.C.
A look at the Revolutionary War from the British perspective.
A too-realistic Santo Cristo.
A Derbyshire ghost riot.
A mysterious "portal" on Mars.
The color purple doesn't really exist, which just shows you can't trust anything anymore.
Three Ice Age fireplaces.
One of ancient history's greatest military commanders.
An ancient "mystery town" in Egypt.
The gruesome (and difficult) business of collecting the bodies of victims of the Titanic.
The wild life of photographer Peter Beard.
When people moved to Florida for the buried pirate treasure.
A police station's cat mascot.
A look at "phantom trains."
It's not all that easy to become a fossil. Assuming that's your life's dream, of course.
You know, if my boyfriend was about to be executed for murdering his mother, I'd figure I had quite a lucky escape. But I guess that's just me.
The complicated story behind a lawyer's disappearance.
The musician's resurrected brain. This is one of the creepier stories I've read in quite some time. Thanks, Science!
We may now know how King Tut died.
A warehouse laborer for the East India Company.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll go on a buried treasure hunt with a poltergeist. In the meantime, here's an English dance tune.
Ostara and Eoster are nothing more than variations , and there are many, of Asherah - an ancient Indo-European goddess mentioned as Yahweh's wife in some sources. I know Christians like to pretend they didn't steal ideas from earlier religions but it just ain't true.
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Oh, and Noah is just another stolen myth.
The discovery of the ancient Egyptian town must indeed have been exciting; it's ironic that Tutankhamun reigned - and lived - such a short time yet is the most famous pharaoh. i had not heard of the possible comet strike on Earth 6000 years ago. that must have been terrifying for people at the time. And it's interesting how destroyers started out as small boats meant to counter torpedo-boats, and now are as large as old-time cruisers...
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