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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's time for this week's Link Dump!
Let the show begin!
Angkor Wat and the collapsed reservoir.
Shorter version: Jack Parsons was one weird dude.
Jolly Jane Toppan, the last person you would want at your sickbed.
A museum that's pure torture.
The mystery of the Breton inscription.
The posset: good for whatever ails you.
Yet another murderous marriage.
Earth has acquired a new moon.
Ghostbusting in German folklore.
The sacrificed children of Llullaillaco.
A shipboard romance in the archives.
The Regency's "acceptable ailment."
The immortal Beethoven.
A mysterious Poe-themed tombstone.
A ring's very long and strange journey.
Medieval she-wolves.
What it was like to watch Aldous Huxley die.
The vanishing solari boards.
The UK Parliament's secret doorway.
The Devil's Bible.
Colombia's underground mountaintop tombs.
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, and neither did Poe.
What animals understand about death and dying. More than most humans think, I'll bet.
The mysteries of Moliere, and other theatrical links.
The alleys of Old London.
The Forest Grove Sound and Satan's squealing teakettle.
A burial by the railroad tracks.
The maps of George III.
Haworth as seen in old newspapers.
The murky tales of lost cosmonauts.
If you think you've come down with the plague, I hope you have white wine vinegar and rosemary on hand.
The notorious Cardiff Giant Hoax.
Murder and an Indian curse.
Death of a bicycle bandit.
The mystery of Ape Canyon.
A flirtatious highwayman.
The 19th century "Colossus of Equestrians."
The murder of a Miami playgirl.
The Hickman family poisoning.
IT'S A PLANET. End of discussion.
A cat comes to the rescue of her kittens.
Poor old Mary Tudor. I've always found her the most sympathetic member of that rotten dynasty.
A 46,000 year old bird.
The role of sound in medieval law.
Kids, do not pick up fruit from the ground and eat it when you have no idea what it is. Odds are good it'll be from something called the "Tree of Death," and there goes your day.
So I guess this is People Eating Stupidly week.
That wraps it up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a famed writer's real-life ghost story. In the meantime, here's some Nat King Cole.
For more details about the "lost cosmonauts" I recommend this article by space historian James Oberg:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jamesoberg.com/vanishing_cosmonauts_with_photos.pdf
Just a hearty "thank you" from across the water (Delaware USA) for the weekly links, which I look forward to and thoroughly enjoy. /mr/
ReplyDeleteHowever sympathetic Mary I may have been as a person, she wasn't a good monarch. The article's contention that she was criticised because she was a woman with power is an imposition of current sensibilities onto people in the past, a bad mistake for anyone but heinous in an historian. I think Mary was disliked because she was a Catholic who tried to reimpose Catholicism on a country that liked its Protestantism. She also was prepared to defer too much to her husband, who was king of hated Spain. Mary was initially viewed with guarded optimism, but alienated many of her countrymen, the way another Catholic Mary, a Scotswoman, did. But English Mary was a better queen, just not one for a Reformist England.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to say she wasn't a failure as a queen (for reasons that were not entirely her fault.) I always felt very sorry for her, though. She seemed like a basically intelligent, decent sort who had the fatal misfortune to be the daughter of Henry VIII.
DeleteAny kind of association with Henry VIII seems to have been a misfortune, but you're right, being his daughter couldn't have been pleasant.
DeleteAldous Huxley's death, along with C.S. Lewis' death, got very little media attention because they both happened to die on the same day as JFK's assassination.
ReplyDeleteOn a happier note, earlier that same day Walt Disney flew over some marginal ranch land near Orlando and decided it was the perfect site for his new theme park.
Peter