"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, November 14, 2025

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

Don't forget to visit the Strange Company HQ gym!


The true story behind the movie "Nuremberg."

A murderous landlord.

A medieval duke's skeleton documents his very violent murder.

Seriously, is there anything on this freaking planet that isn't a freaking front for the freaking CIA?!

The return of Istanbul's cat doors.

We may have gotten Vikings all wrong.




It turns out that Babylonians knew the Pythagorean Theorem.


The cat and dog massacres of WWII.

A mysterious ancient script.

The city of Coventry during the Wars of the Roses.

Jack the Ripper's most enigmatic victim.

Mysterious "voids" in the Giza Pyramids.

The world's oldest paranormal organization.


A 14th century poem may have fooled us about the Black Death.

In this week's 3I/Atlas news...you guessed it, it's still weird.




An ancient man who very nearly took it all with him.

The medieval royal party that came to a very bad end.

Mars exploration's "oopsie" moment.

Rewriting the history of Egypt's New Kingdom.

Exploring the secret language of animals.

William Caxton, printing press pioneer.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll meet an Edwardian ghost.  In the meantime, I'll bet you didn't have "piano-playing octopus" on your WLD bingo card.


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