This week's Link Dump is sponsored by some of the cats of Edward Gorey!
A brief history of the Elgin Marbles.
The days when a New Yorker's biggest worry was banana peels.
If you invited Leonardo da Vinci to your wedding, he was likely to gift you with a sour cheese.
A tavern's mystery skeletons.
John Keats, resurrection man?
Victorians liked to walk on ceilings, which doesn't surprise me one bit.
A telepathic tribe in the Amazon.
A ghost of an oil boom.
The face of a 1400-year-old murder victim.
The mythology of Mad Max.
The socialite who got away with murder.
The Borden who got away with murder.
The imperfect Matilde Serao.
The animals of Georgian London.
The mystery of the mahogany ship.
A marriage turns deadly.
What do you get when you cross a venomous spider with a toilet? You guessed it. A Thomas Morris post.
"Useful, harmless, and demented."
The final post in the saga of "Mermanjan, Star of the Evening."
Sorting out truth and fiction in the life of a Baronet.
A very well-preserved Renaissance-era shipwreck.
A Neolithic "big bang."
An adulterer who became a skull exhibit.
Photos of the 1920s East End.
How to pretend to be a poltergeist.
A wig-maker who was a Revolutionary swimmer.
The unorthodox Ladies of Llangollen.
The problem with 19th century organ grinders.
The man who funded Yale University and his "wicked wife."
The oldest known artwork?
Early 18th century cricket.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusual UFO account. In the meantime, here's some summer hot fun:
Once again I've risen to the defense of Lisbet!
ReplyDeleteThe story of Arthur Henry Banner is a sad one. I never like to read of the slow degeneration of someone; it's like they are fading away. As for the Victorian artistes who walked on ceilings, I can believe it. If one of them had been able to hear of Lionel Richie, they would have been dancing on the ceiling...
ReplyDeleteOh, and Edwsard Gorey always reminds me of the PBS series "Mystery". I first started watching it in the 1980s, when PBS was my mainstay of television. Ah, such good old days!
ReplyDeleteSame here! I think that was the first time I was exposed to Gorey's work.
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