The first Link Dump of September is here!
And our host for this week is jumping for joy!
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That old question: How the hell did Meriwether Lewis die?
That even older question: How the hell did Alexander the Great die?
Where the hell are South Africa's great white sharks?
How London heard about the battle of Waterloo.
They probably just found the remains of one of Napoleon's favorite General.
The first American settlers may have been Japanese.
Oh, just another wedding featuring an exploding goose.
The real-life adventures of a Samurai warrior.
An Amazon warrior in Mongolia.
The Victorian ice cream queen.
The code breakers of Renaissance Venice.
If you want to meet a ghost, your best bet is to go on a nighttime walk in Bristol.
This week in Russian Weird features the world's busiest apartment. Frankly, those photos made me dizzy.
Yet another (probably justifiably) obscure playwright.
An ancient earthquake detector.
Why becoming a human salamander probably isn't the best career choice.
How a pioneering case of plastic surgery took place at a livestock auction.
Why Nessie might just be a freaking big eel.
Rosa Halliday, child thief.
The strange case of the Sonora Aero Club.
A librarian's death in WWI.
The notorious Doctor Dee.
When missing pet posters become art.
The worst room in the Tower of London.
The changing image of Maid Marian.
The hurricane that sank Spain.
A scandalous abduction in India.
Charles Dickens and the dishonest ticket collector.
It only makes sense that Dead Man's Curve would have a ghost.
That time men became infested with lice for the good of their country.
When you steal the bones of a Scottish witch, you're just begging to star in a M.R. James story.
The miser's stinking rich granddaughter.
Words matter, folks.
This is why we can't have nice archaeological relics.
The apparition at Knockmore.
A chat with mourning stationery.
The most glamorous beach parties of the 1920s.
The real story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The East India Company and London's Great Fire.
In which we learn that Future Life Progression is A Thing.
Queen Victoria visits France.
The execution of William Kidd.
The execution of a dirty poet.
To be honest, I find this extremely creepy.
The cats of Spitalfields.
A witchcraft case from Cornwall.
A probable murderer gets away with it.
The execution of a Danish infanticide.
Mystery Fires in Louisiana.
Courthouse records of vagrant wizards and violent clowns.
The actress who became a real Lady.
Trepanation: you need it like you need a hole in your head.
Manly salads!
Another example of the hellish world of the theater.
And that's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a colorful woman from Australian history. In the meantime, even though Labor Day has come and gone, it's still officially summer. (I have the mosquito bites to prove it.) So, bring on the Drifters!
Monster Talk just did a two part detailed podcast on John Dee, I recommend it.
ReplyDeleteThe cloning of the cat is not a good thing, in any way. Next up, cloning spouses to bring them back from the dead. That always ends well in the stories.
ReplyDeleteAnd the changing character of Maid Marian is interesting. What's most interesting to me is that the feminists who portray her in certain ways are using her as a tool as much as any sexist man would. But as she probably didn't exist, I suppose it's not impolite.