This Friday the 13th Link Dump is sponsored by the Lucky Black Cats!
Who the hell invented the zero?
Who the hell were the "Sea People?"
More on the Antikythera shipwreck.
Some bad news about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It was October 1987 in Great Britain. Then things got weird.
Lady Sattjeni of Elephantine.
The story of the end of the Bronze Age.
Some strange amnesia cases. (Warning: goddamned slideshow.)
Halloween superstitions, as seen in 1916.
William, Duke of Clarence talks marriage. Without much enthusiasm.
John Quincy Adams had a thing for weighing and measuring stuff.
The Iranian City of Polish Children.
Seeing red. Literally.
The Gimcrack Whim Collector.
When hatpins were a girl's best friend.
19th century cholera remedies.
19th century advice for British ladies going to India.
The tragic case of the first movie star.
The mystery of an ancient Swedish massacre.
Ancient Egyptians, those Crazy Cat People.
The bullied pigeon who managed to escape in a taxi.
The Case of the Castrated Mummy.
Mary Steward escapes from jail, 1799.
The Lion Man of the Ice Age.
Rules for British ghosts.
How one person achieved a posthumous movie career.
Corpses as murder detectives.
Australia's Moon Rock site.
Because I think we're all interested in not being buried alive.
The ghost mansions of Cairo.
An accidental hysterectomy.
The spinster's numeration table.
Oh, just some multicolored ghost cats.
This week in Russian Weird visits the world of Soviet sanatoriums.
Aaaaand...we're done for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll be visiting the world of early American witchcraft. In the meantime, here's a clip of one of my favorite songs, which I recently found on YouTube. I've posted another cover of "Last Thing on My Mind" before, but this is without doubt the greatest version I've ever heard. Joe Frazier simply owns this.
I had no idea about the Poles in Iran. I wonder if there are any Moslems named Miskuski or Wojtewicz in Tehran or Isfahan these days.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of Florence Lawrence, either. Such a sad ending for a pioneer.
(And to me, any cat is lucky, black, white or in between!)
Super brilliant mix. Especially loved the spinsters and the rules for British ghosts. (Someone should do a "rules for American ghosts.") Thanks again for all the links!
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