Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company staffers are enjoying a snow day!
.jpg)
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for providing a pleasant way to pass an hour or so reading about the weird, wonderful and mysterious.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing a British tv version of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, in which the sharply flawed protagonist explains the original the word ‘marmalade’ as being from a confection made for Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was sick - ‘Mary malade’. I knew this was untrue, but never knew the word’s origin until now. The blog-post written in history’s versions of English was interesting; I found a great shift between 1400 and 1500, the latter of which was rather easily understood, the former not. Do a series of dots and notches constitute writing? And it seems that Russell Sage did have a heart - just for his cat. (I am a big fan of Lightfoot and long wanted a sequel to “10 Degrees and Colder” to tell of the protagonist’s successful rescue from the freezing weather…)
ReplyDelete