This week's Link Dump is sponsored by Maurice Boulanger's Cats of August!
Watch out for the Little People!
Watch out for the Lizard Man!
The Night of the Murdered Poets.
The Hell of being an O.J. juror.
In which John Quincy Adams tells us how to view the eclipse.
In which we take an eating tour of 19th century Lower East Side.
The CIA's recipe for invisible ink.
The many afterlives of Rasputin.
The earliest known winery.
Folklore from 19th century Kirkwall.
Parliament needs cats!
Washington, D.C. needs demon cats!
A brief history of London's Petit Ranelagh.
The capture of an 18th century highwayman.
More from the field of acoustic archaeology.
Adventurous cats.
Defending Fairy Forts.
Life in Bleeding Heart Yard.
A haunted house in Newport.
A famous 1860 railway disaster.
Escape coffins and premature burials.
An odd story involving a DIY submarine and a missing journalist.
Why people didn't smile in old photographs.
Georgian pamphleteering.
19th century cancer treatments.
JMW Turner and "Old Dad."
A 15th century witch trial. As usual, it ended badly.
How to avoid getting struck by lightning. In case you don't feel like reading the article, it took them this long to figure the magic secret was: "Get out of the rain!"
The Burton Gang of Los Angeles.
Competitive lawnmower racing, anyone?
17th century beauty tips.
Some handy tips if you ever marry a mermaid.
How a wedding ring became lost in space.
The moon is full of surprises.
An ode to an Indian cricket player.
Cricket in the Georgian era.
A Civil War era card game ends very badly.
Marie Antoinette's white hair.
The origins of Kotex.
The Buddha and the butterfly.
14th century mobsters.
A ghost riot in Cornwall.
And, finally, a black cat in London's East End has died. Godspeed, Mr. Pussy.
And that's it for this week! Tune in on Monday, when we'll visit a "solved," but still puzzling, Chicago murder. In the meantime, here's an old favorite of mine.
It's so sad about Mr Pussy. We all seem to have stories like that, we who love our pets. We know they will leave, and we know that is better than we leaving them, leaving them to uncertain futures. So we are glad that they must go first. Sad and devastated.
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