Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
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A murder, a lynching, and a scandal.
How the grave marker of an ancient Roman sailor wound up in a New Orleans backyard.
America's most haunted homes.
How to make the perfect 14th century omelet.
The fine art of forgery.
The unsolved disappearance of Merlina the Raven.
The Palace of Westminster fire of 1834.
The Headless Horseman of Ireland.
Edgar Wallace's really bad book promotion.
The search for the world's oldest story.
A large psychic experiment in 1927.
What it was like to be a ploughman in Early Modern England.
In which Native Americans talk space aliens.
WWII and "The Chronicles of Narnia."
A "dinosaur trackway" in the UK.
The origins of witch iconography.
We still have no idea why we sleep.
The origins of the word, "allude."
The ghost and the lost will.
Believe it or not, there's a reason why scientists want our toenails.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll have another round of Libelous Tombstones! In the meantime, here's this surprisingly NSFW Elizabethan ballad. Note: It's not about beer.
At least Edgar Wallace had his rookie status as an excuse for his failed stunt - though it's probably never a good idea to offer money in return for buying a book. If I had a Roman tombstone, I'd definitely find a museum to donate it to; maybe a small one with few other exhibits of note. I enjoy "The Chronicles of Narnia", but preferred the smaller budget tv series adaptations rather than the big budget movies. The Fasting Woman's stunt seemed a bit of a non-starter from the beginning; you know it's not going to make her famous in a good way.
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