This week's Link Dump is keeping it all in the family.
A recently-discovered dolmen complex in Spain.
A once-famed, now forgotten 17th century artist.
A brief history of being "antsy."
In other news, 31/Atlas just keeps getting weirder. And bigger.
How the refrigerator changed food.
The history of vanilla.
The mystery of an abandoned village.
Life on a late 19th century Royal Navy warship.
Mary Carleton, fake princess.
The mystery behind the "out of Africa" theory.
An ancient solstice sanctuary.
The historical facts we know about Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The science behind will-o'-the wisps.
Newly-discovered 12,000 year old rock carvings.
Phantom and dream funerals.
How "Peanuts" defined the modern comic strip.
A dream helped find the remains of a long-missing hiker.
As A.J. Gentile likes to say, "The Moon is weird."
Apparently there's a market for cheese that features "the unmistakable crunch of ants," but I pass.
A brief history of the business card.
The 1968 attack on a Vermeer painting.
The 16th century German Peasants' War.
The fine art of Victorian public humiliation.
A visit to the London church of St. Bartholomew the Great.
How two Dublin boys took a joyride to New York.
Drug use in the ancient world.
A mysterious sound in space.
"Undue religious excitement" leads to murder.
How Mount Vernon, Virginia got its name.
So, medieval Europeans didn't empty chamber pots out of windows. Not often, at least.
A leading painter of the Second French Empire.
The candy that caused a mass poisoning.
Some famous courtesans.
A Heaven-Shaking Thunder Bomb.
AI is discovering Nazca Lines.
A haunted abandoned school. (I suppose if it was inhabited by ghosts, that doesn't make it technically "abandoned," but...)
The reception of the "Divine Comedy."
Some vintage Halloween pranks.
Yet another skull that's rewriting human history.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a young man's mysterious death. In the meantime, bring on the Edwin Hawkins Singers.
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