Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
While you read, enjoy a free concert by the Strange Company Choir.
OK, so maybe 3I/Atlas isn't that weird.
Yet another trunk murder.
A monument to a mysteriously drowned governor.
Medieval people didn't exactly share their homes with livestock.
Young Robert Louis Stevenson wasn't the most fun guy in the world.
A gang war in 1857 New York.
A child's abduction and murder in 1882 France.
Bumblebees and Morse code.
It's looking like life on Earth began a lot earlier than scientists thought.
A killer ancient comet.
Old photos of London at night.
A Georgian-era child star.
A brief history of diplomatic dining.
The murder of a "child bride."
The airport that inspires conspiracy theories.
The political importance of Colonial American coffeehouses.
A baby's paper shroud.
The tree that grew...women?
A "Hansel and Gretel" cottage in New York.
The complicated issue of sleeping fish.
Calvin Coolidge once saved a raccoon from becoming Thanksgiving dinner.
Yellowstone's tamest grizzly.
How the ancients described wind.
In search of sea serpents.
The origins of kissing.
The cat who was Louis Wain's muse.
What's inside the Moon.
That wraps it up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll find some buried treasure. In the meantime, here's some English folk.
The pictures of London at night are wondrous; sometimes a city is magical at night. The Waq Waq tree was an interesting story; evidently European travellers aren't the only ones who embellishments their tales. I'd read that there are some sharks that sleep. I forget where but they sleep in a warm current below the surface, strong enough to pass water through their gils but not strong enough to move them. The Beast of Benvarden is, as the author suggests, much like other 'beasts'. There was one on Exmoor, wasn't there?
ReplyDeleteI believe so. Europe seems lousy with them.
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