Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Feel free to join the Strange Company staffers in winter's first snowball fight.
No, most medieval people did not marry when they were very young.
The landscape of Antarctica.
Cows are pretty darn smart.
The world's oldest restaurant.
The souvenir-hunters of Waterloo.
The practice of "dowsing for corpses."
An 1828 mutiny on the high seas.
One for "The Moon is Weird" file.
A roundup of recent poltergeist events.
The world's longest-running lab experiment.
Scandal at an overcrowded cemetery.
The eternal battle between writers and editors.
Some real-life Robinson Crusoes.
The fossilized structures that give scientists fits.
A house that became a "cat temple."
The life of "Einstein's sidekick."
The failed attempt for force America to use the metric system.
Boleskine is high up on my list of "Houses that maybe shouldn't be restored," but perhaps that's just me.
The Harvard scientist who thinks he's found Heaven. Literally.
Maria Clementina Sobieska, sort-of Queen of England.
Japan's "underwater Atlantis."
The surviving ruins of an influential architect.
The man who tried to fly to Mars. (Spoiler: it didn't work.)
The casseroles of the Great Depression.
A man asks his wife to shoot him. She obliges.
C.A. Mathew's photos of Spitalfields.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unsolved murder in Scotland. In the meantime, it's ukuleles-a-go-go!
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