Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Miss Cellania's Links

Animals That Changed History. And they still have an influence.

What Really Happened to the Grand Duchess Anastasia? Her fate was not fully revealed until 2007.

How Beige Took Over American Homes. It wasn’t for our pleasure; it was for the resale value.

What we know as “curry” has a long and curious history. The only place that doesn’t have a curry tradition is India.

What It Feels Like to Be the "Fat Person" Nobody Wants to Sit Next To. It’s particularly bad on airplanes.


An Oral History of ALF.

A rundown of historical New York City bombings

Australia sits on the world’s fastest-moving tectonic plate, and manages to constantly drift relative to the world’s other land masses, about 2.7 inches a year. That doesn’t seem like much, but for GPS coordinates, it soon become a lot. (via Digg)
 
Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview. (via Metafilter)

The Death-Defying Sport Known as Auto Polo. It was a 20th-century Thunderdome.

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