Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend: Here's DST history, including Ben Franklin's satirical proposal, the guy who got two DUIs at the same time (an hour apart), rants, stories and video.
Resurrecting a Set of Hundred-Year-Old Embryonic Genitals.
11 Fun Historical Newspaper Clippings About Halloween and lots of other Halloween stuff.
World's Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine.
The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian.
ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include the anniversary of Agincourt, the charge of the Light Brigade and Leyte Gulf, the science of Little House on the Prairie, denture history (beginning with the teeth of dead men), pumpkin carving tricks, WWII instructions to soldiers on how to act in various countries overseas, and the remaining pages of Darwin's original manuscript of On the Origin of Species, complete with his kids' drawings.
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