"...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, December 5, 2025

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

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In which a performance of "Julius Caesar" gets a bit too realistic.

Short version:  Human lineage is complicated.

The mystery of the "Hebridean Hum."

The mystery surrounding the discovery of penicillin.





The history of an 18th century gallows.

A fake epidemic that saved lives.



The medium who tricked Arthur Conan Doyle.

A brief history of Christmas carps.

A brief history of gingerbread.

How the Roman military brought cats to Europe.


A dying man's burial request.

The odd case of the Woman Who Walked At Night.

Mars may have had millions of years of tropical storms.

The "great dying" of early colonial America.

The great variety of near-death experiences.


A new debate over old UFO reports.

The violent end to a marriage.

The life of Agnes of Dunbar.


That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a woman's very suspicious death.  In the meantime, bring on the Christmas carols!

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