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This week's Link Dump is hosted by our Easter Cats!
Good news! While we're all in lockdown, the goats are taking over.
In the 17th century, you really didn't want to be accused of having sex with a pig.
The body snatchers of Wanstead.
A Civil War love story.
Charles Darwin and the Glutton Club.
The surprisingly entertaining world of medieval proofs of age.
The hanging of Spanish Jack.
The increasingly tangled tale of the first alleged crime committed in space.
18th century barbers.
A railroad tragedy.
Kitty Clive, 18th century celebrity.
A farmer and his spirit machine.
Very Olde Critters.
How Beethoven fought depression.
Artistic hidden messages.
An ancient village may have been destroyed by a comet.
A pact with God and the strange death of a guitar legend.
The tragic Money family. (I wrote about this curious case here.)
A side note to the murder of David Rizzio.
Letters from the Great Plague of London.
Easter was a lot more violent in the old days.
The psychic dogs of the U.S. military.
The ghost and the Easter bonnet.
Was Alexander the Great buried in Venice?
Brain surgery in ancient Greece.
The fragrant way of fighting disease.
The ghosts of Glamis.
A Welsh Jacobite.
It's raining fish in Australia.
The woman who tried to kill George III.
The first European hanged in Western Australia.
Snails as a...uh, cure for sunburn.
Recipes for rationed times.
A brief history of hair dye.
From plague cure to cocktail.
A New York cat colony.
The last Spitalfields Market cat.
A particularly shocking accusation of murder.
Hoppety Bob and Raymond's Folly.
The life of the anchoress Julian of Norwich.
Theatrical censorship in London.
How yellow fever created Greenwich Village.
That time you could become a professional Sluggard Waker.
The 19th century was the Golden Age of arsenic.
This week in Russian Weird: we're not saying it's aliens, but they're saying it's aliens.
Be proud, Scotland: you are the source for the earliest recorded use of the F-word.
How George Washington invented the presidential cabinet.
Paging Hannibal Lecter: The oldest known human DNA is of a cannibal.
Jenny Lind in New York.
The irony is, if you were to bring someone from the Stone Age into our time, I'm betting they'd want a comfy suburban home with central air and heating.
That brings this week's Link Dump to a close. See you on Monday, when we'll look at America's first witch. In the meantime, I was sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful songwriter John Prine. This is probably my favorite song of his.
Of course the f-word first shows up in Scotland, people have always asked, "What the f is haggis?"
ReplyDeleteThe attack on George III surprised me. As he himself noted, nobody would want to harm him. He was indeed a most liekable gentleman. It was interesting to note that the article refers to Bethlehem Hospital being called 'Bedlam' as the word means 'uproar', implying that the word existed priorly. I always thought it was derived from the hospital and came to mean uproar due to the conditions in the institution.
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