Weekend Link Dump

 

Welcome to the latest Link Dump!

This week, we are honored to be visited by some genuine royalty.

That time someone stole 80,000 pounds of butter.

The complicated medieval legal term, "raptus."

The Roman Woman of Spitalfields.

How medieval Europeans ate before contact with the Americas.

You never know what you'll find in medieval latrines.  Other than the obvious, of course.

You never know what you'll find in a field.

You never know what you'll find in your kitchen.

You never know what you'll find in a Luftwaffe bathroom.

The Surgeons' Hall Riot.

Neanderthal dentistry.

The Prohibition-era "medicine" that left people paralyzed.

A Philadelphia Loyalist during the American Revolution.

The sinking of the Empress of Ireland.

The man who gate-crashed his own wake, which seems a bit impolite.

The newest research about Mary Boleyn.

Why is 3/I Atlas weird?  Because it came from a weird neighborhood.

Speaking of weird, God only knows what's lurking in our oceans.

By the way, lightning's pretty weird, too.

The CIA and the Sphinx.

Ted Turner and the Tasmanian Tiger.

Inventions that were behind their time.

90 years ago, a weird creature was found off the west coast of Canada.  We still don't know what it was.

The man who went from making razors to making a metropolis.  (Spoiler: He had more luck with the razors.)

The mystery of the "copper scroll."

The (probable) murder of "Diamond Flossie."

If you've been longing to know what outer space smells like--and who hasn't?--read on.

What might be the world's oldest arrowheads.

The "lost years" of Samuel Johnson.

A particularly grim murder case.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll meet a ghostly sausage.  No, really.  In the meantime, here's some Vivaldi.