Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Feel free to use the Strange Company HQ skating rink.
Watch out for those exploding trees!
What the hell was the Ark of the Covenant?
The claim that the Great Pyramid may be even older than mainstream archaeologists say.
Gossip columns in the Regency Era.
The 1870 Battle of Havana.
The castle of 100 ghosts.
A mysterious medicinal wood.
Scientists are pondering about talking dogs.
Syphilis has been around a lot longer than we thought.
A forgotten Japanese racetrack.
A Duchess' daring escapes.
Stone tools from 160,000 years ago.
How Richard Burton--the one who wasn't an actor--faked his way through the Hajj. So I suppose he was an actor of sorts, too.
Yet another marriage ends with poison.
The rise and fall of a cat island.
Meeting immortal tramps.
The problem of falling cats.
The tragedy of a professional boxer.
The researchers who are communicating with horses.
A heroine who walked. A lot.
The inventor of the first television.
The first electric chair execution.
A man's literal identity crisis.
We may have misnamed Halley's Comet.
Goethe and the amber ant.
The "Holy Grail" of shipwrecks.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a particularly troubled ghost. In the meantime, let's go Down Under!
How Hardwick Hall was built to keep warm is fascinating. The kitchens would be the coldest rooms naturally but they would be the warmest rooms when in use, which they would have been in the old days, with fires always going; there was no need to waste a. good position on the kitchen. It's sad about the cat island off Japan, but at least the cat population didn't expand to outrun its food-supply and good health. The study of boredom sounds like it was invented because of boredom - and of course boredom is a matter of attitude and interest, not of inactivity. The Middle Ages and early Renaissance were a hurricane of diplomatic, military and political adventure: Yolande of Savoy fit right in. I guess she had to.
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