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The Link Dump is here!
Time to make merry!
Who the hell discovered Florida?
A forgotten Antarctic explorer.
Catherine the Great, children's book author.
The kind of thing that happens when you put an astrophysicist in lockdown.
You want to know how another guy spent his lockdown? Baking a 4,500 year-old loaf of bread. Which surely beats the magnets.
Yes, I would say arsenic definitely counts as "unwholesome food."
The wild world of medieval elephants.
Fighting boredom in the 19th century.
A cosmic homicide.
A tragic 1903 landslide.
Conspiracy theories surrounding a weird death.
How not to inspire a classic novel.
Masons and the disappearance of William Morgan.
Real life "Game of Thrones" in the Holy Roman Empire.
More reasons to hate April Fool's Day.
The 1901 UK census.
A strange wooden structure at Angkor Wat.
The Talking Statues of Rome.
A teenager's strange unsolved murder.
So now it looks like the Irish aren't Celts after all.
Recalling a once-famous murder.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the scientist, the UFOs, and the Vatican.
Blood science and a notorious 19th century murder trial.
Did Renaissance artists know they were...Renaissance artists?
An infamous bigamist.
A scandalous shooting in Los Angeles.
The making of the British teenager.
Houdini, Edison, and American invention.
A Welsh demonic haunting.
Victorians and their freak shows.
The real Sherlock Holmes.
The mystery of the Woodwose.
France's last trial by combat.
Kittens attend a confirmation.
Animal crime victims.
The mystery of the "Bosnian Pyramids."
Anecdotes about the Duke of Wellington.
An Anglo-Saxon charm to cure infection.
A look at the Bow Street police.
The man who transformed Paris.
The Darwin Industry.
A look at the Mabinogion.
That's all for this week! Me, I'm off to try to figure out how I'm going to pay my property taxes next week. And then stick magnets up my nose. Tune in Monday, when we'll look at how a mysterious death caused a lot of complications many years later. In the meantime, here's a song that's been going through my head of late. Can't think why.
Here is the very strange sequel to the William Morgan story. His widow became one of the wives of Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet. Enjoy: http://www.lds-mormon.com/morgan2.shtml
ReplyDeleteFrank Slide is not far from where I live, and is of course well known here. The company I work for just printed a new brochure for the interpretive centre there, though I don't imagine many will be given out this spring...
ReplyDeleteDr Bell was a gentleman just begging for an observant chap to make him into a fictional character. And on the subject of fiction, there was a series of fictional mysteries, called, I think, "Murder Rooms", some years ago starring the late great Ian Richardson as Bell; he and his student, Conan Doyle, solved crimes. I didn't think it was very good, despite Richardson's excellent performances.