Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company staffers have decided this is Take Your Kittens To Work Day.
Five really weird books.
A murder in Madison County.
The author of William the Conqueror's "medieval big data project."
You can now read online the oldest known book about cheese, which for my money is one of those times when you have to salute the internet.
17th century ship's doctors also had to be mental health therapists.
Indonesian monkeys are enough to make Bonnie & Clyde blush.
The Royal Navy's bombardment of Sidon, 1840.
The world's longest lightning strike.
2,500 years ago, a Siberian woman had some incredible tattoos.
In which we learn that Abbey Wood has an abbey. And a wood.
Thomas Wolsey and the 1513 invasion of France.
When a B-25 hit the Empire State Building.
When undertakers bargain over ice.
An ancient message from Moses?
That time when the Golden Gate Bridge almost got a roller coaster.
The unique misery of headaches.
A man dies while a passenger on a plane...and then disappears.
An 18th century man's many careers.
An early Hollywood scandal.
The mysterious petroglyphs of Oahu Beach.
Archaeologists have just discovered a new language.
The body under the floorboards.
When New York was the City of Oysters.
A new theory about Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance.
The paintings that were designed to comfort those about to be executed.
What happens when psychiatric patients suddenly become sane?
A disappearance with possible ties to the CIA and Watergate.
A New Year's Day disappearance.
The people of 1925.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusual murder method. In the meantime, here's an instrument that's new to me.
