Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
And the Strange Company staffers are here to remind you that tomorrow is bath night!
An unsolved murder in a brothel.
Argentina's secret Nazi files.
New York's oldest continuously run hotel.
The ongoing search for the Nazi "gold train."
The mystery of Japan's "underwater pyramid."
The kind of thing that happens when you make fairies angry.
Reddit and a fake Roman financial crisis.
The Amazon has been a busy place.
An incident of Decoration Day, 1868.
Did a nuclear test take down a UFO?
The language that took over the world.
Never accept chocolates from Cordelia Botkin.
The dramatic work of a naval artist.
The man who sails like a Viking.
A failed Dickensian theme park.
When you get an Indian village in exchange for a book recital.
A classic armchair historian.
America's worst school massacre.
We now know why orange cats are orange. In case you've spent many sleepless nights pondering that question.
A famed New Orleans graveyard.
How a Yorkist family navigated the Wars of the Roses.
A real Sweeney Todd.
The invention that bankrupted Mark Twain.
The short 15th century life of Princess Margaret of Scotland.
Kids, if you're ever out looking for a missing Arctic expedition, the first thing you do is talk to the locals.
The docks of Old London.
Isabel, Queen of Castile.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll visit a restaurant that was really out-of-this-world. In the meantime, here's a bit of Bach.
I'd never heard of the school massacre in Michigan. What a truly evil thing to do. The investigation afterward, though, seems the sort to put even many modern investigations in the shade. I'd heard of Twain's investment in the printing press, and knew it was a failure, but didn't know much about it. A very clever machine but, as the article stated, far too complicated. And the armchair historian? I can relate...
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