This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Strange Company HQ kitchen staff.
"Jolly Jane"...well, wasn't.
Predictions of Lincoln's death.
This week's Advice From Thomas Morris: the hiccup cure to end all hiccup cures.
Billiards and John Quincy Adams.
Germany has a dachshund museum. Well, why not?
Sadly, it does not seem that Virgil held a funeral for a fly.
Kay Boyle: she had been there, done that.
The duties of a Georgian footman.
The first prank phone call.
Minnie, the ship's cat who kept coming back.
A Stone Age archaeological site in the North Sea.
Taking the measure of criminals.
Nesta, the forest witch.
Ancient medicine.
The day when no news really was good news.
The man who experimented with time.
Dealing with teething in the 19th century.
We all had a surprise visitor last weekend.
Someone stole a queen's heart. No, I mean literally.
An assortment of historical coincidences.
A famous 18th century asylum.
Particularly strange cases of mass hysteria.
The man with a weaponized hand.
Mr. Hovey and the little stone book.
A time-slip account.
Two famous dogs in the Smithsonian.
Perverted penguins.
The Falklands and a tube of toothpaste.
Dog folklore.
How Samuel Taylor Coleridge wound up in a wine cellar.
Becoming Clark Gable.
The 1814 Frost Fair.
Exploring the possibility of pre-human civilizations.
Etiquette lessons from fairy tales.
The diaries of a WWII officer.
The most haunted roads in the UK.
19th century wolf attacks.
The truth about Johnny Appleseed.
This week in Russian Weird brings us a firebug poltergeist.
That wraps it up for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at the sad life and mysterious death of a literary prodigy. In the meantime, here's some Telemann:
I like the comment on Clark Gable's looks, that his ears were too elephantine AND he was unattractive. The size of his ears were off-putting, but apparently not part of being unattractive. Seriously, though, I never knew such work was put into Gable. The sudio must have had some faith in his future, since there were hundreds of other would-be leading men who would probably have been less expensive to re-create.
ReplyDeleteI like the cat swinging from the gaslight among the kitchen staff. But how do the meals taste?