Welcome to the Link Dump!
And we tip our hats to our hosts for this week!
Who the hell was Christopher Columbus?
Henry I's most "notorious" daughter.
The world's second-tallest man.
The loneliness of being a French POW in Britain.
Heads up, Egypt's prehistory is getting rewritten again.
Aboriginals and a dingo's well-tended grave.
A man's rant against floral funerals.
The woman who saved 13th century England.
A newly-discovered document dealing with victims of the Black Death.
Przybylski’s Star, weird stellar object and epic tongue-twister.
Science may be able to "erase" bad memories, but you might not want to.
Since the world has been longing for a scientific analysis of how geologists are portrayed by the film industry, here ya go.
The puzzle of Turkey's ancient underground city.
A very mysterious and very creepy disease.
Bermuda turns out to be a very strange island.
The man who was on the Royal Navy list for nearly 100 years.
A canine hero of WWI.
A mysterious murder in Mutton Town.
British volunteers in WWI Italy.
Some 13th century plates and bowls.
A popular Georgian-era medicine.
Beluga whales are smarter than we thought. I suspect that holds true for all animals.
People in the Andes are aces when it comes to digesting potatoes.
An unsolved murder in the Tenderloin.
A "solution" to the "Mary Celeste" mystery. (Not that it's a new idea; I remember reading about this theory years ago.)
The mummified cat of Chetham's Library.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the dangers of buying an antique chest. In the meantime, here's a remarkable video which explains why I will never never never never never ever even think about going anywhere near Mount Everest.
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