Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company team wishes you a happy Valentine's Day!
The use of drugs in ancient Egypt.
The diary of an 1870s Manhattan schoolboy.
The original meaning of "spinster."
How the British Empire changed food consumption.
A new theory about how the Great Pyramid was built.
A 5,300 year old drill.
A look at "Vinegar Valentines."
Hannibal Lecter, antihero. (Some years ago, while idly channel-surfing, I came across the middle of "Silence of the Lambs." Within about two minutes, I saw something--I thankfully forget what--that caused me to shriek and quickly change the station. If there is a Hell, it probably plays that film 24/7.)
When coffee was illegal.
Yet another marriage ends in murder.
Ancient Roman medicine may have included...things you wouldn't expect to pick up at the Walmart pharmacy.
Some fatal Valentines.
A possible link between space weather and earthquakes.
Chinese civilization may be older than we thought.
Paging Graham Hancock!
Some mysterious deaths in Bulgaria.
A reworked portrait of Anne Boleyn.
Reconstructing the faces of famous composers.
The mystery of an abandoned Welsh village.
The hidden tunnels of Venus.
What (might) have inspired "Wuthering Heights."
The presidents who had notable non-presidential careers.
The little that we know about Shakespeare's wife.
Tragedy at Wolf Creek.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll visit a very sinister village. In the meantime, here's a bit of '60s pop.
Thanks for the links. You invariably provide a nice little diversion from the hum-drum of real life where I can read up about the weird, wonderful, gruesome and unusual. Thanks again 😊
ReplyDeleteHum drum? You must not live in the States! Its very rarely fun but NEVER hum drum these days
DeleteThe term 'spinster' held no mystery for me, though it's easy to see how it could have become derogatory. The idea that a civilisation existed 38,000 years ago - and the evidence for it - reminds me of "Chariots of the Gods?" The theorist might as well say that all cultures sprang from the same one because they all use stone to build things. The abandoned Welsh village is interesting, though it reads as if someone ran out of money half-way through the project. And making coffee illegal is fine with me - just don't touch the tea!
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