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It's a Star-Spangled Link Dump!
Spaniards should just get out of the art restoration business.
A mysterious ancient fossil.
Maine's oldest unsolved disappearance.
Colma, the city of the dead.
Some heroic dogs and cats.
A Victorian wizard in Liverpool.
A particularly deadly lightning storm.
The Vere Street Coterie.
Weird goings-on in Texas.
A shipwreck and the revival of a long-lost perfume.
The bottom of the ocean is weirder than you can even imagine.
The Mystery of the Disappearing Star.
The multinational life of Vickers Jacob.
Researching the history of an "average" 19th century London family.
Ireland's Roswell.
A memorial park to an exploded whale. I don't want to even think about the souvenirs.
When Britain had radium spas.
The superstar of Brazilian folklore.
The birth of Disneyland.
The first Lutheran martyrs.
Joseph Longchamp and the Jockey Club.
The long history of chain letters.
The long history of "abracadabra."
The gamins of Paris.
The famed 19th century actress Charlotte Cushman.
If you've been wondering what it was like to be an Aztec midwife, here you go.
So, who's up for spending Fourth of July with a psychic pig?
The Georgian era stank. Literally.
In this week in Russian Weird, we talk DIY pyramids.
The most famous of the self-confessed witches.
The colorful life of George Nyleve.
Dissolving UFOs.
A jail for polar bears.
A ship's turbulent history.
The face of an 8,000 year old man.
Personally, I wish men would start wearing hats again. And three-piece suits. And spats.
A century of Fourth of July celebrations.
Colorful 99-million-year-old bugs.
The diary of a sickly 16th century preacher.
Whatever happened to merry widows?
The woman with the blue glow.
Murder in the belfry.
A brief history of wedding rings.
The life of a Tudor courtier.
The life of a Mohawk saint.
The life of a medieval king.
And that's a wrap for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at a child's puzzling disappearance...and even more puzzling reappearance. In the meantime, happy Fourth to all my fellow Americans!
With a tip of the hat to June's Accordion Awareness Month.
Now I really want to know if my boobs glow when I'm asleep.
ReplyDeleteHats! Yes, the fashions of the past were real fashions, not the agglomeration of horrific mess we see these days. What most people wear now is what people wore a hundred years ago when cleaning their toilets or taking out the trash...
ReplyDeleteAnd the Ratcliffe Pick family represents one of the elements of history that I like: socia history, the history of the every-day...
Using dynamite to blow up a dead whale is not as absurd an idea as it might seem. Dead and dying whales beach themselves all the time and corpse disposal isn't easy. Except in very isolated locations leaving them to decay isn't an option due to the stench, beach sands are a bad choice for burial, and pulling them out to sea with tugboats often causes the bodies to break apart.
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