"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, January 25, 2019

Weekend Link Dump



This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the only clown allowed anywhere near Strange Company HQ.




Saladin's unfortunate forerunner.

How to get away with murdering your coachman.

The strange tale of the Jewish jumper and the male impostor.

Mysterious creatures in a lost Antarctica lake.  What could go wrong?

Mysterious structures in the Middle East.

Yes, finding a severed hand would be a bit disconcerting.

DNA meets the Rudolf Hess doppelganger theory.  Doppelganger loses.

Finding the remains of explorer Matthew Flinders.

The notorious hanging of Susanna Cox.  Plus bonus murder ballad!

Not sure what a calenderer did?  Here's your chance to find out.

What the Well-Dressed Napoleon Was Wearing.

A family affair at the guillotine.

The ghosts of Rome.

The madness of Merlin.

Sewing shrouds in the 19th century.

15th century Fake News.

Georgian era naming and shaming.

The disappearance of a bobby-soxer.

Is a gang of serial killers operating in the U.S?

Contemporary accounts of the 1814 Frost Fair.

Maybe naming asteroids after gods of destruction isn't such a great idea.

A medical case where one twin essentially strangled the other...in the womb.

The poisonous Pownall sisters.

Oopsie!

A socialite, P.G. Wodehouse, and Mussolini.  All in one post!

One day in the death penalty.

Merchants as "citizens of the world."

Outdoing Jack the Ripper.

Some words about last words.

Nellie, the School Cat.  (Warning: this ends in tragedy.)

The employee who recycled rats.

The man who would have us believe he was a king.

The world's oldest clove.

A surprising number of people have operated on themselves.  Not that I'm recommending it or anything.

The hottest French fashions from 1802.

That's all the links for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly odd murder case.  In the meantime, here are the great Brothers Clancy.


1 comment:

  1. An interesting article about Wodehouse, Mussolini, et al. I think the 1920s and early '30s must have been a fascinating time, quite different from what we perceive it to be through retrospection.

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