Monday links

Happy Memorial Day:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

Lost, stolen, blown up and fed to pigs: the greatest missing masterpieces

Inside JFK’s door-to-door search for a French call girl — and why she had to look like Jackie.

NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe.

The evolution of "Beauty and the Beast."

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include how to ship a whale via UPS, why you wouldn't want to drink 19th century milk unless you knew it came straight from the cow., and, for fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, all about Towel Day.

August 24: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii in A.D. 79.

They Drew Fire is a collection of paintings selected from the works of the World War II combat artists.

Humongous Tunnel Boring Machines.

Supercut of Improbable Weapons.

U.S. Senate Monorail - A Private Subway System for Senators Under Washington D.C. Since 1909

NASA Just Made All Its Research Free Online.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include which bathroom stall you should choose if you want the cleanest one, how people call cats in different countries, making bread in the Middle Ages, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and how sunflowers track the sun across the sky.