Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
One of the Strange Company staffers is on jury duty, and I hear things are going about the way you'd expect.
The glow of life.
The multiple meanings of the word, "fetching."
The Hudson Valley Bigfoot hunters.
In which ancient Athens creates a goddess.
A historic London toilet.
The remains of a 3,000 year old royal menagerie.
Famous writers and their day jobs.
The icky baths of Pompeii.
Australian miners just saw something weird in the sky.
An ancient medieval ship is making archaeologists very happy.
An assortment of literary conspiracy theories.
The Anglo-German blockade of Venezuela.
The DNA of one of the last Siberian shamans.
It's always awkward when a corpse turns up very much alive.
The unsolved murder of Benjamin Nathan.
The saga of a Harlem tramp cat.
When New York City nearly seceded from the U.S.
Some really freaking old canoes.
A prolific grave-robber in Pennsylvania.
Charlie Chaplin in the East End.
A prisoner of the Aboriginal.
The fear of psychic powers.
The long history of men showing off their legs.
The disappearance of a poker player.
The mysterious Green Stone of Hattusa.
The passing of a cat who loved a Japanese museum.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a particularly sinister ghost. In the meantime, here's a little classical guitar.
I had no idea that Capote was rumoured, by some, to have written "To Kill a Mockingbird". I would have thought his style and Lee's quite different. The Hittite green stone is interesting; I don't know enough about the Hittites. I think Chaplin must have learned a lot from his time in the music halls: some of the scenes inis movies look like they were influenced by watching magicians and other stage acts. A comment on Pompeii's baths - notably by someone who didn't participate in the study - is that the bath-water would have become dirty even with the aqueduct as a source. But how do we now how frequently or infrequently the baths were drained and cleaned, or simply refreshed with new water?
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