This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Strange Company Aeronaut Club!
What the hell is a raven? The answer is...complicated.
Watch out for those amorous footmen!
"The Missing Member." It's a Thomas Morris link, so you can guess which member it is.
Believe it or not, eating pins is not a good idea in the long run. Yes, another Thomas Morris link.
The Great Lobster War.
Interviews with Indian soldiers of the two World Wars.
How Karl Lagerfeld's cat is coping.
A tentacled UFO.
The last invasion of Britain.
Dining out in 19th century Paris.
Taxing 18th century dogs.
Britain's largest Neolithic house.
Doubting Darwin.
Tapping the Admiral.
The average lifespan of a civilization is just over 300 years. Which doesn't look all that great for us. Actually, now that I think of it, spend enough time on Twitter and it's easy to think civilization is already extinct.
But I digress.
A unique ancient burial.
If you happen to be in London, here's your big chance to see a 12th century toilet.
How potatoes became idioms.
How a collection of erotica came to be smuggled into the British Library.
The writer whose career was interrupted by UFOs. Happens to us all.
People who've sold their own corpses. Be warned that it's surprisingly difficult to get them back.
The legend of the Lost Children of Hamelin.
The Bender Family, meet John and Lavinia Fisher.
The pig that found a pot of gold.
A look at the Surrey Canal.
A tragic death inspired a beautiful monument.
A fine addition to the Weird Wills file.
A travel writer in 1820s New York.
The Lord Mayor and the crook.
Are werewolves real?
There are a lot of ways to lose your head. No, it's not a Thomas Morris link, but it might as well be.
In defense of President Grant.
The gateway to Hell is in England. So that's settled.
This week in Russian Weird: Siberia is getting black snow, which has raised suggestions that this is the real gateway to Hell. Sorry, England.
Robert Southwell courted martyrdom, and got it.
Personally, I've always had a lot of sympathy for Mrs. Leo Tolstoy.
Cases where people have deliberately disappeared.
In which Schrodinger the Cat does what he damn well pleases. Because he's, well, a cat.
The first American celebrations of Presidents' Day.
Why thinking you have a ghost in your home can sometimes be the best-case scenario.
The man who executed Louis XVI.
And that's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a ghost story that was, quite literally, all wet. In the meantime, here's Ronee Blakley. I loved this song back in the day. As a matter of fact, I think the first live concert I ever attended was when Blakley played the Troubadour back when the world and I were both young.
I always like to read article on British history. The 'battle' of Fishguard is interesting. I like the illustration of Jemima Nicholas and her pitchfork. Notice the French soldier in the picture is holding his backside: at least in this version, Ms Nicholas's fork was not just for show.
ReplyDeleteAnd the faces in the second picture of the Aeronaut Club look quite sombre. In which direction was their aeroplane headed, I wonder.