#research

http://www.russianbooks.org/montsegur/montsegur5.h...

Useful bit of research for a thing. Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahr-e_Sukhteh

Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/alton.html

A coincidence of name, nothing more, but this looks interesting and I want to come back to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train

I'd never heard of these before today. Noted and filed, to be used later.

http://ask.metafilter.com/217597/Has-LA-changed-si...

A hundred-year history of LA. Makes the place sound interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence#Physical_ef...

"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person com...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot

The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1651697370/the...

Jess Nevins is crowdfunding his next volume of stupendous cultural research. I own his Encyclopaedi...

http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html

No idea what I'll use this stuff for, mind. But I bet I will at some point.

http://www.davros.org/rail/bell1999.html

Horrifyingly, I may have a use for this. I don't want to complete with the record, and I won't died...

http://io9.com/5680191/where-did-science-fiction-c...

Jess Nevins, known to this parish as the author of The Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Victoriana (a refe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Internation...

Strongly suspect this is Foundation X from the other day. The other likely candidate for a secretiv...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/...

Absolutely brilliant excerpt from a new book on the history of ghosts in England. Will have to orde...

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id...

Mostly bookmarking this for myself, although I imagine a few people here might be mildly diverted by...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100...

I want to come back to this one, because it's germane to something I've been thinking a lot about re...