Before beginning this week's Link Dump, we have a first for this blog: a public proposal!
Watch out for Thundercrows!
An alleged UFO abduction at a state park.
A glimpse of a young widow and her child.
Don't look now, but the timeline of civilization just blew up in everyone's faces.
The Roman woman of Spitalfields.
The wreck of the ship Squantum, 1860.
The sort of face you make after spending two and a half years in a Greenland hut.
In which we learn that palaeoanthropologists are a bunch of psychos.
The controversial Marguerite of Anjou.
Lydia Sherman, poison fiend.
The world's oldest known synthetic pigment turns out to have some odd properties.
Some largely-forgotten pie flavors. To be honest, I can fully understand why some of them are forgotten. In particular, "water pie" needs to be tied to an anvil and thrown in the Mariana Trench.
Related: some vintage dessert salads.
From Romanov princess to fashion icon.
New England, land of hermit tourism.
If you don't have time to read this whole piece, I can sum it up in four words: Patricia Highsmith was weird.
Edinburgh's South Bridge Vaults.
Newly discovered Byzantine tombs in Syria.
The link between Bovril and science fiction.
Ancient human remains with weird DNA.
Human language probably emerged much earlier than we thought.
The birth of the Brooklyn Museum.
Murder at Sugar Valley Narrows.
Meanwhile, scientists are harassing cicadas into performing classical music. Even though everyone knows they favor blues-rock.
A balloon expedition ends tragically.
A restaurant owner's mysterious disappearance.
A Gilded Age house that defied the developers.
Some honest-to-goodness zombies.
The tragic end of America's first game warden.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a couple's unsolved disappearance. In the meantime, here's a bit of vintage rock.
I love your blog! I check it every Friday for the link dump.
ReplyDeleteI love the story of the Cook House, the beautiful terrace house sandwiched between the two giant apartment blocks. What a wonderful home that would be. I had no idea about Bovril's name; considering the origin of it (rather an imaginative science fiction story it was, too), people even a generation after it's debut probably didn't know how it was named. And it's interesting that the Syrian Department of Antiquities was still on the job at the end of the Syrian civil war. And yes, water-pie is terrible, but vinegar-pie???
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