This week's Link Dump is hosted by this jaunty cat-about-town:
Where the hell are the UFOs?
Where the hell is the founder of Rome buried?
Where the hell is Strato Lizzie, mascot cat?
Who the hell murdered Frances Korous?
Watch out for those fair swindlers!
"I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE—Out of TIME."
Napoleon and bees.
A skeleton and a mysterious pyramid.
This is why some archaeologists can't have nice things.
Yes, British Columbia is still the world's top destination spot for severed feet.
Wedding cakes in the 18th century.
From California socialite to Arctic explorer.
The Death Helmet of France. And it's even more unpleasant than it sounds.
A postman's very bad Valentine's Day.
The busy love life of painter JMW Turner. (Part 2 here. Yes, he was so busy, the topic needed more than one post.)
The dark side of Valentine's Day.
Love letters from the early Presidents.
How the rich flaunted themselves in Victorian Paris.
An Irish folk medicine practitioner.
Vintage sailor's Valentines.
Some DIY love spells.
The theory that ghosts are natural phenomena.
The real Lady Jane Grey.
"Poisoning the well" used to be a lot more than a figure of speech.
A Victorian radical.
When Valentine's Day turns deadly.
The ghosts of East Texas.
The surreal artwork of a schizophrenic.
Medieval nun fakes her own death to escape her convent, "wanders at large to the notorious peril of her soul."
A historic door in Cornhill.
Czech literary cats.
Ancient Mesopotamian laundry services.
Ancient Egyptian surgery textbooks.
How Greta Green became an elopement capital.
How American troops got mixed up in the Russian Civil War.
The life of a scribbling accountant.
Journal of a soldier visiting Germany in 1948.
Let's talk electric centipedes.
The occasional horrors of Regency era menus.
Yes, it hurts to be beheaded. Just in case there was any question about that.
Beer. There is nothing it can't do.
A murder in Excelsior.
The earliest known Valentine letter.
Death of a moral madman.
Abraham Lincoln could not be described as a dream date.
The slave who popularized Mammoth Cave.
A significant crater in Greenland.
The 15th century Bed of Roses.
The Baldwinsville Homicide.
A quite mesmerizing video: our world as seen from the ISS:
The World Below: Time-Lapse | Earth 2 from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo.
Kissing in the 19th century.
Victorians enjoyed sending hate mail on Valentine's Day.
Times when dreams were used to uncover murder.
The cannibal of Austerlitz.
Yet another busy day at Tyburn.
That's a wrap for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at the possible connection between two murder cases. In the meantime, here's some music from the Civil War era.
That article on Jane Grey is interesting - especially the declaratuon of the author to make it his life's work to tell the truth about that girl!
ReplyDeletePoisoning of wells is an interesting topic. In most wars, wells had been left alone, as a courtesy, so to speak, in the same way as treating prisoners decently. If you did it to them, they would do it to you, and no one would gain an advantage. I know in the Levant, during the Great War, both sides refrained from poisoning wells, but an interesting trick was to leave dead animals near water-holes, with signs stating that the water was poisoned. It wasn't, but was any enemy soldier going to take the chance? Unfortunately, the Germans and Japanese didn't play by the rules in the second war.