Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
IS EVERYBODY HAPPY???
What the hell was the Whitechapel Mount?
Fair play for cannibals.
The mysterious Great Serpent Mound.
Why the number 17 was not popular in ancient Rome.
BREAKING: Scientists have just discovered dogs. (Note: Cats can tell if you're sad, too. They just usually don't care.)
The lady who was eulogized as "phosphate of lime."
Five notable female writers of fairy tales.
It's a bedsheet! It's a wartime diary!
The days of deadly hatpins.
The mystery of the disappearing town.
A look at medieval pets.
The records of a medieval inquisitor.
A congressman commits a scandalous murder.
Herbert Hoover's unexpected road to the White House.
Love letters from a WWII soldier turn up in an unexpected place.
It wasn't always easy to be an Assyrian king. Especially if you wanted to die in your bed.
Alchemy has always been a strange line of work.
The MP who may have invented lawn tennis.
Two cases of families going missing.
The DNA on the Shroud of Turin.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious suicide. In the meantime, here's Randy Newman and friends:
Whitechapel Mount, eh?
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The article on Assyrian kings is interesting, since all three of the kings mentioned are named identically to much more famous kings. Tiglath-Pileser was the name of three kings, the most famous and powerful was Tiglath-Pileser III; will he be called Tiglath-Pileser IV now? Did he call himself the third, or is that history? The Whitechapel Mount is interesting; it must have taken a log time to build up. (I like 'Ducking Pond Row' on the map...) 1759: good times for the growing British Empire! The hat-pin: even Agatha Christie wrote a story about a murder committed with one, though the plot hinged on the fashions of the day (the 1920s) not requiring hat-pins...
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