Today's Link Dump weather forecast: cloudy with a strong chance of seeing it rain cats and/or dogs.
Who the hell was King Arthur?
Watch out for those haunted violins!
A haunted castle in Italy.
The first "Fete de la Federation."
A psychic vision and the American Revolution.
The execution of the Black Watch mutineers.
As anyone who lives here can confirm, Los Angeles is Hell.
I didn't know Salvador Dali came out with a cookbook. Ignorance was bliss.
The language of the Carnies.
This week in Russian Weird: They love their psychic cats.
And this: a mysterious ancient underground structure under Russia's oldest city. What could go wrong?
Turning the dead into compost.
A first-hand view of the Gordon Riots.
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Women's cricket in the 19th century.
A gruesome murderer comes to a gruesome end.
Victorian bathing machines.
One heck of a royal coach.
Bingen's Mouse Tower.
The latest installment in the saga of Mermanjan.
Victorian executions: fun for the whole family!
Death masks and phrenology.
Confirming a tale from the Crusades.
The secrets of the Shaman of Durrenberg.
Murder at a pool table.
More from the "pushing back human history" file.
The kind of thing that happened when you asked Florence Nightingale her age.
A murder in Margate.
This was probably history's weirdest spy.
Legends of lost mines.
Francis Delaval, 18th century prankster.
A very unusual--if not impossible--fever.
Some really vintage clothing.
And, finally: wild kittens!
That does it for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at an heiress' mysterious end. In the meantime, here's a summer song I remember fondly from back in the day. Most appropriate album cover, too.
Three cheers for the Scots and their kittens!
ReplyDeleteI've not heard of Riothamus in connection with King Arthur, and the Artorius connection seems largely due to the name, which, if held by a Roman in the second century must have been the name of quite a few Romans over time. I think the search for Arthur needs to continue.
ReplyDeleteThe church under Derbent is interesting but it seems a shame it can't be excavated. I know the reason for making it a UNESCO site but really, what's the point of protecting something when you don't know what it is?