Friday, June 3, 2016

Friday links

Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches...we shall never surrender" speech: it's the anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk by a flotilla of small boats.


Dagger in King Tut's tomb was made with iron from a meteorite.




ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include Vonnegut's letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five, specifically) during the Dresden bombing, what happens when you swallow gum, laser helicopters, and Beatrix Potter's pet pothead bunny (on which she based Peter Rabbit).

Monday, May 30, 2016

Monday links




Here's Kurt Vonnegut's May 29, 1945 letter home after imprisonment in an underground slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse Five, specifically) during the Dresden bombing.



ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include the tactical order of dressing (so you'll always be battle-ready), a history of tug-of-war fatalities, an Australian town on sale for $750,000, and the giant radioactive frog steaks 1913 newspapers predicted we'd be eating.