Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where our hosts will be the cats of Manx!
An ancient "party boat."
An important incident in George Washington's early military career.
The life of a British High Court Judge in India.
A WWI massacre at sea.
We all might be breathing wrong.
A look at "telephone telepathy."
A 7,000 year old underwater wall.
In which old newspapers predict the future.
The madam and the ghostwriter.
A "living laboratory" in Norway.
Rejoice that we now know why Swiss cheese has holes.
The use of poison in hunting goes a long way back.
A strange footnote to the Great Fire of London.
A mystery beast in Michigan.
A 2,000 year old computer?
We might have found traces of Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.
Japan has a new cat stationmaster.
The cave with the "eyes of God."
The versatile genius of Hans Holbein.
The fine art of 19th century embalming.
How a winter storm led to witchcraft trials.
A brief history of London's Bishopsgate.
A 20th century "feudal lord" comes to a bad end.
3I/Atlas may be gone, but it's still being weird.
How servants were recruited in the 18th century.
A man once built an anti-seasickness ship. And then things went sideways.
The mystery of two disappearances.
The real story of Carthage.
A murder on Crosby Street.
An ancient structure in Ireland has just been discovered, and it's freaking huge.
An explosion in deep space is leaving astronomers befuddled.
The latest theory about the Voynich Manuscript.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusual unsolved murder. In the meantime, here's some Vivaldi.
I wonder how different the world would have been had Carthage defeated Rome in the Punic Wars... Iley Tate sounds like a horrendous person. I wonder that he wasn't killed long before he was. I see a few 'dead signs' around my town; relics of simpler times, and more specialised trades. The Bulgarian cave with the 'Eyes of God' is truly impressive.
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