This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Association of Medieval Cats!
Watch out for those Rolling Muffs!
A less famous example of "Devil's Footprints."
Teenage boys will be teenage boys. Even if they're mammoths.
The "worst orchestra in the world." Not to boast, but back in the day, I was associated with a country-rock band that I can proudly say was even worse.
The stone that could rewrite art history.
Vignettes of ordinary life in 18th century England.
The long history of Natchitoches, Louisiana.
A forgotten king of 20th century fashion.
The un-sheikhed Sheikh.
Ghosts wearing grave-clothes.
The Case of the Murderous Maid.
Pro tip: If you're about to be hanged, it's good to have an executioner with a lot of debts.
Personal documents of WWI.
Crows are being put to work as street cleaners.
The real history of the Orient Express.
A quiet Welsh brothel.
The "solitary and deluded vice." Yes, it's just what you think.
Recreating the diet of a 17th century sailor. No, you wouldn't want to eat it.
A handy guide to contacting the dead.
The girl who was supposedly kidnapped by Bigfoot.
Ancient pregnancy tests.
Saints really knew how to multitask.
The paranormal side of WWI.
Louis XVI's brother in Scotland.
The lives of children of some famous political figures.
The Rolands, among the many victims of the French Revolution.
Dragon folklore.
An early female archaeologist.
Some ancient reconstructed faces.
2017's strangest unsolved murders.
The 1817 death of Princess Charlotte.
The weird death of John Wheeler.
The "X-ray murder case."
Ireland's Witch Detectives.
The "peppermints on the beach" murder.
The "monks of emptiness."
When women didn't want women to vote.
This week's Advice From Thomas Morris: What to do with a pigeon's backside. No, seriously.
Dreaming of the Sphinx.
Sex in the Medieval City.
The connection between "Don Quixote" and digital piracy.
Are we hardwired to see ghosts?
High-tech ghosts.
A Christmas earthquake.
Plots, gunpowder, and orange juice.
More on the Gunpowder Plot.
Patents for flying saucers.
A "new" portrait of Mary Queen of Scots.
Burke and Hare, murderers-for-profit.
The peculiar disappearance of a Japanese tourist in Canada.
This was a big week in Russian Weird: a Siberian time capsule.
And here's this Russian who's really a Martian.
There are no urban legends quite like Soviet Urban Legends.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unsolved Ohio murder. In the meantime, here's this little gem I found by a happy accident on YouTube:
The story about the Portsmouth Sinfonia was a good one. I like how they weren't trying to be bad, they were just people with no talent - or no experience. "Opportunity Rocks" is probably the best biut about them - though the photo that accompanied the article is like a cross-section of 1970s fashions. Oy.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I like the last picture of the Medieval cats, the two on their hind feet making off with prizes, including the most streamlined rat I've ever seen.