Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Meanwhile, the Strange Company HQ staffers are hoping to make the 2028 U.S. Olympics gymnastics team.
Navigating the Pacific, ancient Polynesian style.
How to make a medieval king fall in love with you. Although, considering what most medieval kings were like, I'm not sure that you'd want this.
A murder that was "solved," but remains unresolved.
The "Oz factor."
Some writing systems that will probably never be deciphered.
UFOs and "missing time."
An undertaker provides a parade float.
We now know when Vikings reached North America.
Elite suburban villas as a center of 18th century politics.
What (possibly) destroyed the Library of Alexandria.
A Canadian island that just won't sit still.
Nothing to see here, just golden-haired, bare-skinned aliens.
Clever Hans, the psychic horse.
Things we still don't know about ancient Egypt.
A weird family tragedy.
The diary of a food-loving Renaissance adolescent.
The time when Edgar Allan Poe tried to get a government job, and things went sideways very quickly.
Victorian Paris' "Temple of Money."
A string of murders in Oregon.
Josephine Baker, Resistance spy.
The last of the Spitalfields Market Cats.
A bizarre "runaway nun" story.
A heroic Great Dane in WWII.
A mysterious murder on a shanty-boat.
17th century villagers were terrified of the occupant of this grave. So naturally, archaeologists had to dig her up. Stupid archaeologists.
The life and career of Aphra Behn.
That eternal search for the Abominable Snowman.
The latest in Biblical archaeology.
Why we say "o'clock."
Alan Turing and "jump jets."
How we got the word, "weird."
The hairstyles of ancient Egypt.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a poltergeist named Malchi. In the meantime, here's some Telemann.
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