This week's Link Dump is sponsored by a celebrity feline: Virginia Woolf's Sappho. (Woolf herself took this photo.)
Who the hell shot John Meierhoffer?
What the hell was life like in ancient Mongolia?
Where the hell is Glenn Miller's plane?
Watch out for the radiant boys!
The case of the disappearing pond.
Thomas Rees, demented, happy and useful.
A cotton seed on the Moon.
Folklore of the Oaxacan ruins.
The riverfront gardens near the Taj Mahal.
What you could--and could not--wear in 17th century Lisbon.
It's not necessarily a good idea to let the government know you're interested in UFOs.
The nurse and the ghost.
Carriages drawn by kites.
19th century cat games.
The world's oldest melody.
The world as Xenophon saw it.
A Russian coachman at Chatsworth House.
Why you'll have a problem building a time machine.
Prohibition and the U.S. Army.
How we are becoming slaves to Big Tech.
William Leftwich's ice well.
The best-selling books, 1830-1930.
Boston's Great Molasses Flood.
Britain's worst ice skating tragedy.
Death Masks of the Rich and Famous.
Artist manages to recreate Hell in the middle of the Namibia desert.
A look at Wren's model of St. Paul's cathedral.
The wonderful weirdness of Edward Gorey.
The mysterious language of the Indus Valley civilization.
The life of the Duchess of Wellington.
Reminiscences of a Civil War veteran.
An 1,800 year old homework assignment.
The mystery of Algeria's pyramid tombs.
The hazards of being an ex-Haitian president.
My new favorite conspiracy theory.
Was it murder? Or spontaneous human combustion?
One really awe-inspiring cabinet:
An eyewitness account of the 1780 Gordon Riots.
Tombstone censors.
Women and the Crusades.
A controversial human skull.
Porcelain and Madame de Pompadour.
Why you might not want to move to Dryden, New York.
Atlantis and the Bimini Wall.
The wonders of Kirby's Eccentric Museum.
A Norwegian doppelganger in Ireland.
That's the last of this week's links. See you on Monday, when we'll visit a Scottish goblin. In the meantime, let us end with the sound of trumpets.
I think we could use more Thomas Reeses; yes, he thought he kept his wife in his hand (when she wasn't one of the attendants) and spoke to invisible window people, but, as the title stated, he was happy and useful. Being demented seems a small problem in that context.
ReplyDeleteI always thought Glenn Miller's aeroplane was a large one, a DC10 or the like. I had no idea it was smaller and not entirely metal. Interesting.
And I've not heard of Molter - a Baroque composer who is new to me. What a treasure!
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