Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Featuring music from the Strange Company Orchestra!
The forgotten Fifth Crusade.
The gangs of 1970s Brooklyn.
A visit to Waltham Abbey.
A memorial to a murdered postmaster.
How ancient humans regarded eclipses.
How new technology is finding old cities.
U-Boat action off the coast of Gaza, 1917.
Ancient Egyptian princesses were probably damn good archers.
The rise and fall of Salisbury steak.
The legend of a Roman legion in China.
The difficulties of getting a decent photo of a funeral procession.
800 million years ago, our solar system may have seen one damn big kaboom.
Because I know you can't get enough of Viking hygiene.
A mysterious ancient culture.
The strange case of the "Beast of Gevaudan,"
Researching the survivors of Pompeii.
The hotel that was born from a family feud.
The Indian maharaja who saved Polish orphans.
The electricity of moss.
Tales of phantom airplanes.
This may be the greatest true-crime case ever.
The ghost of King Tut may well be wishing that archaeologists had never found him.
The world's oldest post office.
Moon landing conspiracies a go-go.
The mystery of the "Baghdad Battery."
A look at the letters of Heloise.
A wooden structure from half-a-million years ago.
A murder mystery is finally solved. However, since it took place in the 16th century and the culprits were mosquitoes, don't count on an arrest.
A suicide at a Junior High School.
An "asteroid" turns out to be something that's really puzzling astronomers.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll talk Victorian murder. In the meantime, let's follow the science!
Such good articles. The story about the maharaja's saving of the Polish children was heart-warming; he didn't seem to have bragged about it much. It's interesting that according to an earlier article I read, Grand Duke Francisco I's original death certificate stated that he died of malaria; it's neat that dna evidence has confirmed this. The Fifth Crusade was an unusual one; I wonder if the unusual target of the campaign led to it being largely forgotten. And the culture in ancient Spain that destroyed its own homes and vanished: enigmatic! The beast in eighteenth century France made me think of the movie "Brotherhood of the Wolf"; I wonder if the historical stories inspired it. And moon landing conspiracies... Sigh. You'll never convince a conspiracy fanatic, unfortunately.
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