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| Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party |
This week's Link Dump leaps into November!
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| Photo: Walter Chandoha |
Who the hell is buried in John Dillinger's tomb?
This week in Russian Weird: What the hell caused this crater?
Watch out for the Bog Meadows Thing!
Another husband who got away with it.
Effie Louise Koogle, Halloween playwright. Yes, it's just as peculiar as it sounds.
An American adventurer in Germany.
Why we don't eat swans anymore.
Ice Ages and the Antarctic.
What Napoleon dreamed.
Halloween Feeing Markets.
The Tower of Silence.
12,800 years ago, there may well have been a Big Kaboom. I use the technical term.
What it was like to be an early 19th century army officer on campaign.
The ghost in the traffic tunnel.
Mother Shipton, the famed Witch of York.
How a theater became a bookshop, and other theatrical links.
A case of 19th century sexual abuse.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the ghost.
A heroic Halloween cat.
Australian ghost hoaxes.
Some Parisian ghost stories.
Regency-era swearing.
A celebrity death-mask maker.
I've heard of cats returning to their old homes, but...
Pirates seldom died in their beds.
A murder in Leicestershire, 1815.
Why pub owners can make the best undertakers.
How a novelist helped defeat the Nazis.
The presidential fetus and the lightning bolt.
The truth behind the haunted house of Berkeley Square.
The first English embassy to India.
What if two plus two doesn't necessarily equal four?
The execution of the Vampire of Bytom.
Solving a mystery involving the Bayeux Tapestry.
The murder of a London ghost.
The creepy adventures of an Icelandic medium.
West Virginia University is haunted by a cow.
More than most humans, I'd bet.
Some wonderful photos of Old London at night.
An unsolved vampire murder.
What it was really like to be a medieval court jester.
The Death Cheeses of Switzerland.
A revolt of young convicts ends tragically.
More on the Brooklyn cats who swam in milk.
A Halloween ghost story.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll talk cursed necklaces. In the meantime, here's more music for your autumn.
The article on the Tower of Silence is not only interesting for the description of Parsi funerary practices but for showing how chemicals can affect different facets of a culture, from the ecosystem to class (or caste) employment.
ReplyDeleteDennis Wheatley wrote an interesting account of his deception planning in the innocuously named London Controlling Section. His autobiography is also interesting for the amount of information he gives about the times he lived through (ordinary things, such as the price of wines and where people lived).