This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Cats Who Ate Way Too Much On Thanksgiving.
What the hell became of the Greenland Vikings?
Where the hell is Diego Velazquez?
Who the hell was the Babushka Lady?
Watch out for those supernatural sadists!
Watch out for those killer snake wheels!
Watch out for those exploding witch bottles!
The terrier who inspired a children's book.
A brief history of Christmas lights.
A bottle tells of murder and suicide.
A French Crazy Cat Man.
19th century turkey farming.
The mystical world of magic books.
A 17th century bishop's um, unusual mark on history.
Worst Thanksgiving ever?
Second worst Thanksgiving ever?
Just one really weird historical anecdote.
Edward Winslow, the man who gave us Thanksgiving.
Oh, just Vincent Price summoning demons.
Thanksgiving in the early 19th century.
The art of Angelica Kauffman.
A social-climbing housemaid.
Georgian era charity events.
Dante's ghost and his missing cantos.
The Boy Scout and his nuclear reactor.
18th century children's literature.
Fashionable mid-19th century hairstyles.
A recipe for the 18th century version of instant soup.
This week's Advice From Thomas Morris: What not to do with a toothbrush.
Why you should never insult a squirrel.
Why you should never underestimate a porpoise.
Why you should never take up the profession of sin-eating.
Mysterious inscriptions in a Jordan desert.
The Mars Rover may have found evidence of ancient life.
Midshipmen's WWII journals.
Folklore's influence on modern-day werewolves.
A look at the 18th century "fair sex."
The scientist who specializes in prehistoric sex.
A tragic fossil.
Lifestyle advice from the Aztecs.
The UFO on the moor.
A man with a window in his chest.
A man with a window in his grave.
More conspiracy theories about the Templars and the Ark of the Covenant.
This is something of a companion piece to my Wednesday post about the turkey legal expert.
If you feel like going down a rabbit hole this weekend, here's a very curious side note to that mother of all rabbit holes, the JFK Assassination.
A Russian princess at the London court.
"Sky ships" in Ireland.
The Ordinary of Newgate.
One really old pair of dentures.
Even older bone jewelry.
The death of Zorro.
Alchemical art.
The wonders of Occult Dentistry!
The wonders of visible speech!
The execution of a 15th century wizard.
This week in Russian Weird brings us shape-shifting Yetis. Just another day in Siberia.
Oh, and their mummified monks are on the move.
And there you go for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll take another look at marriage, Strange Company style. In the meantime, you'd like to see a bunch of Japanese nesting dolls playing Beethoven on the theremin, wouldn't you?
Yes, of course you would.
I love conspiracy theories; they make me laugh. I love the bit about the Babushka lady being a Russian spy, obviously, since she wore a headscarf. I guess the costume of the bearded revolutionary with a sash full of revolvers and holding a bomb with a lit fuse was taken. But really, many women wore headscarves in 1963; I would see many of them, much older, still wearing them in the 1980s. I felt sorry for the manufacturer of those headscarves, since fashion had eradicated them.
ReplyDeleteThat historical anecdote story - excellent.
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