Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Happy Friday the 13th!
The languages of ancient humans.
Dodo birds actually tasted pretty good. Unfortunately for them.
An ancient coin that tells of a massive slave rebellion.
The long war against the Barbary pirates.
Traces of a mysterious ancient religion.
An extinct marsupial turns up alive and well.
The miniatures that served as Tudor love tokens.
In which we learn that "adult" has nothing to do with "adultery."
Ancient humans loved elongated skulls.
Yet another artifact that rewrites human history.
The mystery of the man in the reservoir.
How people woke up before alarm clocks came along.
A murder mystery in Medford.
If you live in Florida, keep your eyes peeled for giant scorpions.
The fire that destroyed the SS City of Montreal.
Syphilis has been around for a very long time.
Sir John Vanbrugh and his castle.
In which undertakers Tell All.
Da Vinci and the hidden crotch detail.
The Kentucky county that celebrates the time it got showered with meat.
How France came to legalize posthumous marriages.
The possibility that Amelia Earhart wound up as crab food.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a death that was part suicide, part murder. In the meantime, here's some Vivaldi.
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