[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith has a two part review of some of the fiction that he has recently read.
• blogTO looks at Casa Loma lit up for the holidays.
• Dangerous Minds notes The London Nobody Knows, a documentary of the grim areas of late Victorian London.
• Language Hat looks at how 16th century Spanish linguists represented Nahuatl spelling.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the iatrogenic transmission of syphilis via unsterile instruments during the Civil War.
• The LRB Blog notes the many conflicting contracts signed by the KGB with different television groups at the end of the Cold War.
• Marginal Revolution notes Rio de Janeiro's attempts to deal with tourism-targeted crime by compensating victims with a tourist-directed tax.
• Maximos62 looks at the geological reasons for Indonesia's volcanism.
• Progressive Download looks at the all-woman Homeward Bound expedition to Antarctica.
• Peter Rukavina looks at the backstory behind the creation of the village of Crapaud.
• Spacing Toronto looks at how signs asking people to go slow in children-inhabited zones.
• Torontoist looks at where Suicide Squad was filmed in Toronto.
• The Understanding Society Blog looks at the specific experiences which molded the French tradition of sociology.