This week's Link Dump is sponsored by our New Year's Cats!
Why the hell did monks wear tonsures?
Watch out for those arrow-wielding elves!
Angels, angels, those pesky angels are everywhere.
The strange case of the Gatwick Airport Drones.
How Hitler inspired a weird publishing battle.
Something really weird is going on in the Space Station.
If you want to live as a human popsicle, do I have the city for you.
19th century German students and their own version of "Animal House."
19th century New Year wishes.
Lady Anne's tree grave.
This may be THE headline of 2018.
A remarkable collection of dinosaur footprints has been found.
This week in Russian Weird: UFOs are busy damming rivers.
A call for the revival of Epiphany.
The first cat in outer space.
A peek at Nellie Bly's luggage.
Death on Christmas day.
Pantomime is hell.
Charles Dickens meets New York.
Captain Bandy's unmerry Christmas.
A sea-sparkling Christmas.
A cat's Christmas tree.
Christmas kittens and movie cats.
Care for some WWII-era mince pies?
How to defeat The Devourer.
The hazards of getting drunk at Christmas.
Queen Victoria's daughter was a cigarette bum.
Christmas shopping for Charlemagne.
Christmas in late 19th century New York.
Your Alexa may be trying to kill you.
The world's first motel.
A case of very imperfect justice.
And so ends the final WLD for 2018. See you on Monday, when we'll look at an Italian case of scandal and mysterious death. In the meantime, have a happy new year!
Undine, thank you for all the hard work you put into your blog-I hope it's as fun to produce as it is to read it. Have a great feline filled 2019!
ReplyDeleteI always think of Twelfth Night as the last of Christmas. For me, Epiphany never went out of fashion. And I like pantomimes. I've never been to one, but I like them all the same. Mimes are from Hell, pantomimes are heavenly.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians...a New Year's tradition.