Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 August 2016

…Duke the Great Pyrenees is the only dog that's ever been elected mayor in America, and he proudly serves the people of Cormorant, a tiny Western Minnesota town with about 1,000 residents. He was just reelected for his third year-long term…

At least 159 dead, 368 others hurt as strong earthquake rocks central Italy… hundreds of others were injured… destroyed a cluster of small mountain villages…

…The Voynich Manuscript …a small publishing house in Spain …is in the process of re-creating the volume — "every stain, hole, sewn-up tear in the parchment…"