This week's Link Dump is sponsored by Cats on Stamps Worldwide!
Why the hell did we start making cheese?
Who the hell was "Miranda Eve?" Now we know!
Who the hell murdered the women of Niceville?
Watch out for those orange ghosts!
Watch out for those yellow cat-witches!
Watch out for those killer carpets!
Watch out for the Monster of Ryde!
The health benefits of train collisions.
The formal charges made against Marie Antoinette.
The family correspondence of an early 19th century family.
Secrets of an Indian river.
Australian "tombstone fairies."
Stalin's weird death.
An ancient Chinese child's mysterious tomb.
A Turk is shipwrecked in Dutch Pennsylvania. It did not go well for him.
The dead man in Clerkenwell.
Cadiz after Trafalgar.
Scientists discover that dogs have facial expressions. Well, knock me down with a stick, guys.
The goddess in the car.
A learned Victorian dog.
Eliza Ross, female "burker."
The Welsh "skeleton tree."
19th century London street sellers.
The man who fell 15,000 feet, and lived to tell about it.
In which I learn they used to hold Dark Shadows beauty contents.
In which John Quincy Adams plays the Kevin Bacon role in "Footloose." Or something.
The greatest cat newsletter of the 1980s.
Some myths about the Wars of the Roses.
Mysteries of Lizzie.
Japan's Bunny Island.
Ireland's Jealous Wall.
The worst music festival.
One house you probably don't want to buy.
The ghosts of Paris.
More files on the JFK assassination are about to be released.
The problems with taking ants to court.
This would actually explain much about Florida. And Congress.
The man who invented camping.
Mary Jones, victim of judicial overkill.
Ludwig II, world's greatest opera buff.
David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee.
A list of Halloween murders.
A list of Halloween unsolved mysteries.
Singing mermaids.
Penguin eggs and the worst journey in the world.
Was Mata Hari really a spy?
Does the Great Sphinx have a twin?
How Charlie Chaplin's wife rescued his fortune.
Mapping our unknown world.
J.S. Bach, dorm parent.
Infancy in the Georgian era.
Conan Doyle talks spiritualism.
A haunted castle in Sherwood Forest.
Why it's unlucky to open an umbrella inside your house.
A "deliberate, damnable murder."
And, finally, let's end on a cheery note: A cat sanctuary is saved.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll be looking at an unsolved murder in early 20th century New York. In the meantime, here's a bit of Haydn:
The cat sanctuary is in Rome, Italy. Not Argentina.
ReplyDeleteCorrected. That's what happens when you post a bunch of links in a last-minute hurry.
DeleteI feel sad for neglected houses, such as Annesley Hall. Whether a little cabin or a great mansion, a house should be lived in. The ghosts are probably just trying to attract another family to live there.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love Haydn.
The story about Miranda Eve is one of the most California stories i have ever heard. I am from there and allowed to say so. please be well and continue to live and prosper.
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