Welcome to this post-Christmas Link Dump!
The Strange Company staffers are busy at the post-holiday sales.
What to do about radioactive reindeer?
What to do about phantom jellyfish?
Photos of what it was like to shop in Old London.
One of the earliest surviving decorated manuscripts.
The mystery of the woman with toxic blood.
W.B. Yeats' occult imagination.
When a Christmas party really is murder.
A pictorial history of Santa Claus.
Louisa May Alcott's version of "A Christmas Carol."
We bid farewell to 3I/Atlas, who stayed weird to the end.
An undertaker's Christmas Eve.
A brief history of Christmas puddings.
An ancient "execution cemetery."
A whole lot of Victorian shoes have washed up on a beach, puzzling the hell out of everyone.
Mysterious ancient mass cremations in Scotland.
The Council of Nicaea.
An ancient stone labyrinth in India.
A now-obscure WWI tragedy at sea.
Madagascar's man-eating tree.
If anyone's craving authentic WWII-style mincemeat, here you go.
The disappearance of the Fort Worth Three.
The Not-Deer of Appalachia.
The man who revolutionized table tennis.
Some world leaders just should not throw Christmas parties.
When you're told "Good luck with the aliens," you know it's going to be a bumpy ride.
The squirrel who sold war bonds.
This is fun: 2025's nastiest book reviews.
The adopted cats of Snug Harbor.
The mystery of when, exactly, Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii.
The spiders of Jupiter.
The "lost rooms" of an Egyptian pyramid.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the time an Anglican priest met some friendly extraterrestrials. In the meantime, here's Maddy Prior:
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ReplyDeleteSome fun articles here. Shopping in old London would have been interesting, going from shop to shop, each with its speciality, though I think the shop that dealt in "Dairy and ‘Sacks, bags, ropes, twines, tents, canvas, etc.’ " might have been a real chandler's shop. Sailors' Snug Harbour! I first came across that delightfully named neighbourhood when I was looking at house floor plans, and some of the plans for houses there. They could re-produce those houses today and I suspect they would sell well. Some of those book reviews are very good - and bad, if you know what I mean. (As a child, I thought Woody Allen was funny; as an adult, I think he's over-rated.) The woman with toxic blood? Very interesting, with a far-fetched but possible explanation. The explanation for the not-deer is better, though the stories about it are scary...
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