Welcome to this week's Link Dump! There are no strangers here; only cat friends you haven't met yet.
Feeling melancholy? Try ostrich liver!
In 2024, something left a very weird crater on the Moon.
More deadly amusement parks.
A very unsuccessful hermit.
A new cat species has been discovered. A darn cute one, too.
Europe's first treatise on cheese.
A sorcerer's magical diary.
Why some funerals were not rushed.
The latest in the search for Noah's Ark.
The folklore of Harvest Moons.
An aristocratic philosopher. And warmonger.
The city that spent one day as America's capital.
The possibility of hidden chambers in King Tut's tomb.
A social worker turned mass kidnapper.
The Witch of York.
A bunch of disappearing priests.
The ultimate "I'm not saying it's aliens, but..." theory. (Follow-up question: "OK, so who created the aliens, smartypants?")
Did Vikings really burn funeral boats? Well...maybe.
Crime and punishment in 1787 England.
Benedict Arnold is spending eternity in a kindergarten classroom, which is as good a definition of "Hell on Earth" as any.
The General known as the "Black Devil."
When London lived in fear of being garrotted.
The art of Regency letter writing.
The birth of "Johnny Appleseed."
A ballad about a classic murder mystery.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the very creepy last weeks of an elderly woman. In the meantime, here's Tom Petty.
Lord Herbert’s reality and his reputation seem to be at odds… Would Noah’s Ark be boat-shaped? It was an ark - a box - and didn’t need to navigate or sail, just float. The idea that life on Earth came from elsewhere is possible, of course, or it could be that it originated here from elements that are found elsewhere. Compared to some more modern Americans, Arnold is looking rather benign. I recall reading in Punch magazine from the 1860s - I read them in the 1980s, not when they were first issued - garrotting was a real fear, and therefore fodder for satire. And if an early study weren’t about cheese, I don’t know what it might have been about.
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