Monday links

March 5th is the anniversary of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.

Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist - imprisoned for “false weather forecasts,” he sent sketches to the family he’d never see again.

The Russian Navy’s UFO Files.

Here's a monkey washing dishes.

Victorian beauty tips.

The Weird True Story of the Rise and Fall of the Waterbed

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include why ballet dancers turn clockwise, a 1799 list of risk factors for spontaneous combustion, plus more recent science, GPS doodling via bicycle, and, for Dr. Seuss's birthday, his little-known book of nudes: The Seven Lady Godivas (SFW).