Weekend Link Dump

Welcome to this week's Link Dump!IS EVERYBODY HAPPY???What the hell was the Whitechapel Mount?Fair play for cannibals.The "wonderful year" 1759.The mysterious Great Serpent Mound.Why the number 17 was not popular in ancient Rome.BREAKING: Scientists have just discovered dogs. (Note: Cats can tell if you're sad, too. They just usually don't care.)The lady who was eulogized as "phosphate of lime."Five notable female writers of fairy tales.It's a bedsheet! It's a wartime diary!The days of deadly hatpins.The mystery of the disappearing town.A look at medieval pets.The records of a medieval inquisitor.A congressman commits a scandalous murder.Herbert Hoover's unexpected road to the White House.Love letters from a WWII soldier turn up in an unexpected place.It wasn't always easy to be an Assyrian king. Especially if you wanted to die in your bed.Alchemy has always been a strange line of work.The MP who may have invented lawn tennis.Two cases of families going missing.The DNA on the Shroud…