A Catwalk Weekly Link Round-Up

 

 

 

One week blends into another here at Casa Kittling. Denis and I are counting down the days until he retires even though we shouldn't because the celebratory date isn't until the end of May. Hopefully by then we can travel and take advantage of some of these daydream itineraries I've been concocting.

I've been polishing floors and getting ready for the exercise equipment that should be delivered soon, and I've started yet another afghan. The only other thing of note is the order I placed for some new masks. I thought I'd share three of them with you since I have no news to share. And no... you're not going to see me model them even though I did use the word "catwalk" in the title of the post!

Should I wear this one or the next one for my first visit to the Wildlife World Zoo in months?

And what about the last one for Christmas? Isn't it perfect for readers like you and me?

Now that the fashion show is over, I'll mosey on out to the link corral. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!

 

 

►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

• The inside story of the $8 million heist from the Carnegie Library.
• These sons are using eBooks to help their virus-stricken father and other patients. 
• Why organizing workers in the book industry is so hard.
• The #ReclaimHerName initiative ignores the authorial choices of the writers it represents.
• A study has found that Ernest Hemingway's published works are littered with errors.
• How the 19th Amendment complicated the status and role of women in Hawaii.
• The feminist history of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
• The design of the "DNA" bookcase.
  

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

• 200,000-year-old bedding found in South Africa may be the world's oldest.
• The 70 million-year-old history of the Mississippi River.
• A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5,000 years ago. Why was it forgotten?
• A ten-year-old finds an eighteenth-century sword with a brand new metal detector.
• Thousands of rare items were found in the attic of Oxburgh Hall in England. Additional information from Smithsonian Magazine.
• An amazingly intact Viking helmet was found in Britain-- one of only two in the entire world.
• Archaeologists have unearthed the remnants of an eighteenth-century pub in Slovakia.
• Peer into the past with photorealistic portraits of Roman emperors.
  

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

• When two monkeys were paid unequally for the same task, they revolted against their "boss".
• A Golden Retriever becomes best buddies with a rescued dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
• A stray dog kept visiting a car dealership, so they gave him a job and his own employee badge.
• Watch rescued baby orangutans pile into wheelbarrows to catch a ride back home to the nursery.
• U.K. conservationists have successfully brought back butterflies declared extinct in 1979.
• Microscopically, crocodile tears look sort of like our own.
• Mass die-offs of marine mammals are on the rise. (You can live in and eat plastic only so long...)
• This little duck hilariously takes off like a shot into the water while being released back into the wild.

►Fascinating Folk◄

• Nicole Tersigni explains "mansplaining" with help from seventeenth-century art.
• The Akashinga, brave all-female warriors who fiercely protect endangered animals from poachers in Africa.
• Fred Newton, the man who swam the full length of the Mississippi River.
• How the American West led the way for women in politics.
• How twelve female cookbook authors changed the way we eat.

►The Happy Wanderer◄

• Death Valley hit a blistering 130°, potentially setting a new record.
• The crime fiction of New Zealand.
• The timely return of the drive-in restaurant.
• Melting glaciers have revealed a new island in Antarctica.

►I ♥ Lists◄

• Eight children's mystery novels that are enjoyable for all ages.
• The top ten books by Charles Dickens.
• Fifteen books to read based on your favorite classic novel.
• Twenty-one readers share the books that made them better people.
• Ten facts about George Orwell's Animal Farm.
• The greatest literary groups in history.
• Eerily prescient 2020 plague novels.
• Here are the fifty most impactful Black books of the last fifty years.

That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

Stay safe, stay healthy-- and don't forget to curl up with a good book!