Links for 2010-12-07

A Civil Rights Era Ghost Town
"After coming across the ghost town of Cairo, Illinois, with demolished streets and buildings that barely hinted at once housing townspeople, Reddit user inkslave was left with a head spinning with questions. After no success on Wikipedia, he turned to Reddit: What the hell happened to Cairo, Illinois?"
(tags:history )
BBC News – French library finds Leonardo da Vinci manuscript
A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes.
(tags:history )
BBC News – Uganda mystery illness: Tests fail to identify killer
Tests have so far failed to identify an illness that has killed at least 38 people in northern Uganda, officials say.
(tags:med )