Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Oh, God, the Strange Company staffers are bar-hopping again.
A case of avenged honor.
The most famous dog of the Middle Ages.
The legend of King Arthur in Greenland.
A Welsh village that became a casualty of WWII.
The rise and fall of masquerade balls.
In which science proves that stolen french fries taste better.
Two newly-discovered sermons by St. Augustine.
Ireland's "famine roads."
London's execution broadsides.
The social life of ancient Roman...latrines.
That time when Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and John Gay were roomies.
The enigma of Vermeer.
A ditch full of ancient headless human skeletons have been discovered, and archaeologists haven't a clue.
A lost WWI battalion.
A tale of a 19th century deathbed.
How America's 150th birthday party went sideways.
The mystery of the origins of language.
The folklore of "corpse roads."
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Route 66.
The Mob's arrival in Hollywood.
The stories behind two coffins.
HMS Dolphin captures a slave ship.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a murder case...that wasn't. In the meantime, here's one of those pop songs where the original version is less well known than the covers.
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