Welcome to this Friday's Link Dump! The name of this week's host is, unfortunately, lost to history, but I love that look of Cattitude.
The Outer Hebrides are really humming!
The importance of a fingerprint from Stonehenge.
Earth's inner core may not be...the inner core.
Isn't it good to know that scientists are hosting wine tasting parties for rats?
The discovery of an ancient city associated with Alexander the Great.
An anecdote of the workhouse.
Tourists find buried treasure in the Czech Republic. Beats a souvenir t-shirt.
British newspaper headlines from VE Day.
Detective work in 19th century France.
The hero of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.
Stories created by children during wartime.
HMS Wasp, accidental victim.
A historic Moroccan necropolis.
Newspaper coverage of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.
The 1813 Battle of York.
In which historians ponder all the most important questions.
Pope Francis goes into eternity with really lousy kerning.
The fake Hitler diaries.
A high-status 4,500 year old burial.
The medieval period has lousy PR, and some historians aren't happy about that.
The Napoleon diamond necklace.
The first advice column.
E.T. might turn out to be Ted Bundy.
A brief history of the word "hillbilly."
The 1911 Champagne Riots.
A British MP who was also an Arctic explorer.
An Irish "close encounter."
The myths of Elisabeth of Austria.
A tour of Shakespeare's London.
The pyramids and hydraulic engineering.
The oldest known domestic cats in what is now the United States.
A glimpse of peasant life in ancient Egypt.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious death inside a lighthouse. In the meantime, bring on the blues.
"Earth's inner core "
ReplyDeleteRob Petrie:
"What is the main purpose in going to the Earth's center?"
Laura Petrie:
"To find out whether it's chewy or chocolate creme."
I wonder if the cats who first came to the Americas were brought specifically to be with settlers or if they were just ships' cats who went exploring. It makes sense to me that the ancient Egyptians would have hydraulic engineering. Running water was central (literally) to their culture; they must have studied all facets of it. The small Kingdom of Lynkestis is interesting; one doesn't think too much of Philip's conquests, though they were necessary for Alexander's. And 'the real McCoy' sounds an interesting fellow, a gentleman criminal, as it were.
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