"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, February 27, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

The Strange Company staffers are enjoying a snow day!




Watch out for those bloodsucking vampire vines!

Some new evidence about Easter Island.

Marmalade and the medieval House of Commons.

A "lost city" may have been found.

Tragedy on a training ship.

A diplomat's wife turns dressmaker.

The 1685 "Argyll Rising."

A thousand years of English in one blog post.

The link between breathing and memory.

When UFO hunters stopped America from getting nuked.

A brief history of the "women's page" in newspapers.

The Ice King of Boston.

Human writing is older than we thought.

Fashionable funeral flowers.

The mystery of the million-year-old skulls.

A newly discovered petroglyph complex.

Michelangelo, reluctant painter.

A financier's wandering cat.

Some impressive Iron Age surgery.

A con man turns to murder.

A Tudor scapegoat.

Us: "Why is ice slippery?"  Scientists: "Dunno."

A dinosaur's violent end.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at the peculiar death of a 17th century woman.  In the meantime, here's Gordon Lightfoot.

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