Enjoy this week's Link Dump!
While you read, please feel free to join us in the club for Strange Company staffers.
The surprising DNA of an ancient Egyptian.
A visit to Old Rotherhithe.
A quite awful new theory about why cats were first domesticated.
Why "Peggy" is a nickname for "Margaret."
The capture of a slaver, 1845.
The Girls Who Killed the Rats.
The latest research about the Carnac stones.
Boccaccio and his literary self-portraits.
The surprising secrets of da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man."
That time when something very weird landed in Ireland.
That time when something very weird was spotted in New Mexico.
The Founding Mothers of New France.
What our ancestors wore to the beach.
A particularly brutal murder in Montana.
A look at underwater archaeology.
The menace of Merry Widow Hats.
The latest news from the Great Pyramid. It'll be interesting to see if any of this truly holds up.
How 18th century New Jersey women briefly gained the right to vote.
Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints.
This is for all of you who've been wondering what ancient Rome smelled like.
That time when cats got married at the Plaza Hotel.
So, England has a guy prowling around in a panther costume.
When ancient Rome had a urine tax.
The town named after a jungle vampire.
Four cases where men disappeared after being last seen in their cars.
A Shaikh's assassination on the beach.
The Bayeux Tapestry is (temporarily) returning to England.
England's last political duel.
A case of "love, bigamy, and murder."
Good news, Oscar Wilde! You can visit the British Library again!
A man and his biblioburro.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when it'll be poltergeists a-go-go! In the meantime, here's a brief visit to medieval Paris.
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