Welcome to the Link Dump, where our host for this week will be British composer Daphne Oram's cat! She had four cats, Elect, Tronic, Sine and Square. I don't know which one this is, but he is very welcome.
When reference librarians were Google.
Bigfoot? Or fat guy skinny-dipping? The world wonders!
The patterns of near-death experiences.
The (former) Versailles of the West Indies.
A husband and wife stand trial for murder.
Stone Age hunters were pretty good sailors. (As a side note, I've often thought that ancient humans would have been justly offended to learn that we think of them as "primitive.")
This is for all of you who have been wondering how the largest known T. rex died.
The trousers of Old Mexico.
"The Devil made me do it!"
In defense of palmistry.
Recipes from Victory Gardens.
Charles James Fox and the heiress.
Parliament, Clangers, and Bagpuss.
What it was like to sell second-hand tombstones.
Ah-hoo, werewolves of...Detroit?
The last of the Neanderthals.
The possible dangers of meditation.
The 1381 Peasants' Revolt.
The mystery of why male chimps spend years throwing rocks at the same tree.
In this week's episode of "rewriting human history..."
The long journey of a "magical" manuscript.
How the United States got its name.
When amusement parks turn deadly.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly weird extraterrestrial encounter. In the meantime, here's Jackson Browne.
The story of the Peasants' Revolt makes for fascinating reading, while the chimpanzees throwing rocks at trees is either funny or rather disturbing... Why did early Europeans go to Malta in the first place? How did they know it was there? The last of the Neanderthals' sounds like such a sad statement. On the other hand, British MPs sound like they're having a bit of fun while deciding their country's future. And no, that's not bigfoot. It's just a guy. Let him have his swim. (And it's good to know, sort of, that people have been taking blurry pictures of cats for a long time...)
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