This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Fellowship of Kitten Aeronauts!
What the hell is the Eye of the Sahara?
What the hell are the Fort Mountain Petroglyphs?
Watch out for those sea serpents!
Watch out for those Devon witch wars!
Watch out for those Minneapolis caves!
Watch out for those flying Coney Island monsters!
Watch out for those Megalodons!
One of the more offbeat Jack the Ripper suspects.
A scandalous Victorian bank failure.
Medieval hairstyles.
George Washington's dog.
16th century strange sounds in the sky.
Why it's amazing that we can still read "Beowulf."
Edward Braddock and George Washington.
An Arab embassy in Dark Age Scandinavia.
Ladies share some pleasant discourse in 16th century England.
A wartime execution.
Hints to Victorian unmarried ladies.
A murder in King's Meadow.
Murder for fun and profit.
Georgian cakes and puddings.
The Roughriders of the Mediterranean.
A brief history of the Evil Eye.
Horses who sniff out death.
A DIY cathedral.
19th century Pedestrianism.
Mozart's "Il Seraglio."
The church with a cat greeter.
Neolithic fairies.
The First Servile War.
Life on the road in the Napoleonic era.
The King of the Fairies.
The brewery flood of 1814.
The first woman to be filmed by an Edison motion picture camera.
Using liquid to carve stone.
A particularly sad case of eighth century infanticide.
Another account of a child's death, this one from the early 18th century.
The extremely unfortunate Hoo Loo.
One very busy sleepwalker.
The enduring mystery of the Boy in the Box.
How spiritualism became a craze.
The execution of John Ball.
The Swell Mob vs. Two Intrepid Females. Three guesses who wins.
Being broken on the wheel: one of the nastier aspects of life in the 18th century.
Canines and crinolines.
That Damned Charles Fort.
That time Voltaire gamed the lottery.
A bad dream of the Romanovs.
Countess Castiglione, queen of the selfies.
19th century longevity.
Major Ward and the skeleton.
And we're done! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly weird murder in Seattle. In the meantime, here's some Salieri. It's a pity those silly legends about him have obscured the memory of this quite charming composer.
I'd never heard of the Eye of the Sahara. I like how some people think it's the remains of Atlantis. They take a bit of what Plato said, but ignore the fact that he didn't mention it being in a vast desert, thousands of miles from the sea. With the way some people pick and choose their facts, they could run for political office.
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Regarding the first woman filmed by Edison - figures that first there was 'porn' (ANKLES!!!) then came cat video.
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