Strange Company is issuing a public safety warning: Dressing a cat in frilly nightgowns usually carries the most dreadful safety hazards.
Safety hazards for the humans involved, of course.
Let's examine--very carefully--this week's links:
What the hell is going on with Russian snow?
What the hell is one to do with Hitler's birthplace?
Who the hell was the Spanish Forger?
What the hell are these Amazonian geoglyphs?
What the hell did Bridget Sullivan know about the Borden murders?
Watch out for the Hawkhurst Smuggling Gang!
Watch out for ghostly goats and demon sheep!
Watch out for those parallel worlds!
I for one thing the world needs more canine saints.
We're more Neanderthal than we like to think.
The sister of John Wilkes Booth.
An odd reincarnation story.
How bad actors and rotten fruit became the perfect team.
Picturing Picts.
How magic challenges the concept of free will.
When the 18th century honeymoon is definitely over.
I'd go a little further and suggest we're just one big computer virus.
Witchcraft in the north of England.
The use of fumigation to cure venereal disease.
More don't-try-this-at-home vintage cosmetics.
A minister interviews his wife's ghost.
How to eat like an ancient Roman.
The first New Orleans Mardi Gras.
A real-life Artful Dodger.
Catching Napoleon.
A Rothschild lands in hot water, 1883.
Kaspar Hauser meets the Adjustment Bureau.
Susan Picotte, pioneering physician.
The dangers of 19th century London streets.
Ghost riots and doppelgangers.
A story of lost love, ghosts, and a famous hotel.
Scotland's Golden Age of grave-robbing.
This abandoned pet cemetery with a dark history is as sad a sight as can be imagined. (That headstone for "Taiger"...)
Don't even think about it.
The haunted Willard Library.
Broken-hearted, ladies? Get a dog.
And, finally: Need a change from reading about weird history? How about some weird fiction, courtesy of R.A. Lafferty?
And there you have it for this edition of links. See you on Monday, with the tale of one of the most astonishing con jobs in American history. In the meantime, here's some Haydn:
The article on the house in which Hitler was born is a good one. I'm not sure why there is so much confusion or embarrassment over the house. It's where an evil man was born. That makes it historic. People go to see it out of curiosity; there's nothing wrong with that. In Samarkand, there is the great tomb of Tamerlane, a conqueror who seems to have done nothing but destroy and kill. In his place and time, he was as bad as Hitler. No one experiences guilt over visiting the Gur-e Amir; it's history. We live with it.
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking to my reincarnation post. I hope you enjoyed it. 😊
ReplyDeleteI was sad about the pet cemetery's background story, but I loved the photos.
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