Sunday Links

An Insane Ghost City of Fake French Chateaux

Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President's Men 1973–75 

Finally, A Personality Quiz Backed By Science Guess what? I'm not very agreeable.

How the song Midnight Train to Georgia started out as Midnight Plane to Houston

52 Places to Go in 2019 I've been to a few. Puglia and the Azores have been on my radar for awhile. How about you?

The Musical Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights Get Brought to Life They sound as horrible as one might expect.

The Last Wild Caribou in the Contiguous U.S. Is No Longer Wild  Thanks Bruce!

A Food Tour Through the New York City Crime World "Sometimes, you don’t know which meal is going to be your last."

Download Vincent van Gogh's Collection of 500 Japanese Prints

African elegance in the pre-Instagram era 


Filtergram gets rid of clutter on Instagram.

Art of the Chinese Courtyard: Respectful Renovations Keep Hutongs Alive
From Lady Liberty to Hollywood to the Middle East, These Are the Most Exciting Museums Opening in 2019

100 Gardens to Visit Before You Die

7 maps  trace Ottawa's history from humble lumber town to thriving capital.

German train-delay scarf sells for €7,550 on eBay 

Paterson’s Roads (1826 edition) : possibly the closest thing the nineteenth century ever got to Google Street View.

16 Medical Procedures and Devices from the Early 1900s that are Straight Out of a Nightmare

The Egg Thief  For decades Jeffrey Lendrum helicoptered up and rappelled down to aeries on cliff faces from Patagonia to Quebec, snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers.

Herding Thanks Bruce!

A tale of woe: Catskill Keep: An Abandoned Cursed Castle In Upstate NY 

Carnivorous bunnies Snowshoe hares eat meat, and they don't seem all that picky about what kind of animal it comes from.