This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Strange Company Orchestra.
Who the hell murdered Amos Snell?
Watch out for those Scottish water spirits!
Watch out for those cursed masks!
Cornwall's 'obby 'oss.
We have Martha Stewart; the 18th century had Elizabeth Raffald.
It should come as no surprise that Victorians liked to bury people in picnic baskets.
This man wants to sell you his germs.
The man who carried a knife blade in his jaw for over a year. Yup, Thomas Morris link.
Why St. Mark's Eve is the spookiest night of the year.
Let me put it this way: of all the awful ways to be executed, this may be the worst. Consider yourselves warned.
Elections in Georgian era England were...messy. (Mutters to self: almost as bad as in California.)
An unusual murder victim.
You say, "potato," I say, "Potoooooooo"...
A famed early 19th century courtesan.
The woman who jumped out of a pie in front of Nikola Tesla. History is weird.
How some condemned men met their fate.
A lost London mansion.
Lookalikes go to war.
The murder of Ramon Navarro.
The first staged photograph.
The summer the statues moved.
The poisonous Angel of Bremen.
The people with golden blood.
A famed French chateau.
Did Aleister Crowley kill off Paul McCartney?
Schrodinger in Spitalfields.
The Great Ostrich Heist.
The man who revolutionized the book trade.
Ancient fortune-telling.
How cats led to a divorce.
The Hotel Radium.
Mesopotamian child-care tips.
The many editions of Robinson Crusoe.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look a real-life monster under the bed. In the meantime, here's a classic Irish air:
What would I do without you?
ReplyDeleteThe destruction of Paul Pindar's house was a disaster for history and architecture. The fact that its facade was saved for a museum shows just how empty and lifeless museums really are.
ReplyDeleteAnd I could never understand the 'Paul is dead' idea. That's just bizarre. I'd rather listen to the orchestra of cats. Well, maybe not.