Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-21-2008

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• Victoria Coren: My dad's memorial service was going so well. Then the ghouls turned up
  Terence Jolley, he warned, made a habit of turning up at funerals and memorials of people with whom he was not really familiar, bringing a large group, in the hope of...
  (tags: weird death via:acblicious uk)
   
• Two new Burns poems discovered alongside "rude" letters | Books | guardian.co.uk
  Robert Burns may also have been suffering from a rather nasty STD, according to a collection of explicit writing apparently by Scotland's national bard
  (tags: history literature via:mollyaida poetry manuscripts burns)
   
• Anonymous | Futility Closet
  "B. Traven," the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is an anonymous mystery.
  (tags: politics history writing writers b.traven)
   
• renaissance map :: hyperexperience
  maps drawn by Leonardo da Vinci scanned and posted in a Google maps interface
  (tags: geo visualization history maps googlemaps gmaps geography)