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This week's Link Dump is hosted by some of the cats of Edward Bawden!
Sabine Baring-Gould and the fairies.
The remarkable adventures of Tirpitz the Pig.
The remarkable adventures of Pickles the Dog.
The remarkable adventures of Oliver Cromwell's head.
For some reason, Sarah Hare had herself immortalized in wax.
Why you would really not want to be in the middle of a 14th century pub brawl.
The Queen of England now has her own line of gin. These days, I'm sure she needs it.
"Study reveals differences between nobles, commoners in Middle Ages." Well, there's a shocker.
Our ghost town summer.
Yes, Emily Bronte wrote "Wuthering Heights." Having had the great misfortune of reading that psychotic book, my question is why she wrote it.
The rudest man in Britain.
A folding car.
A cold case solved...and then unsolved again.
Yeah, not even Hercule Poirot is going to solve this murder mystery.
When aliens go grocery shopping.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the latest findings about the Dyatlov Pass incident.
The kind of thing that happens when you try to make a lion cub your club mascot.
No Swan Upping this year.
Underwater archaeology in Australia.
An open letter against open letters.
How a Chinese opera became the world's oldest known stereo recording.
The Support Group for People Maligned in Historical Fiction; Or, Why Edward II really needs to hire a good libel lawyer.
Yes, damn it, Pluto is still a planet.
Bronze Age horsemanship.
Why every bride's trousseau could use a shroud.
The Grandma Bandit.
An elk abducted by a UFO.
The medieval life of Isabel, Countess of Surrey.
In 18th century London, casual sex was a bit like Russian Roulette.
The fad of eye miniatures.
A New Zealand hiker's very strange death.
Scientific women in the archives.
The execution of a mayor-murderer.
Science finally gets around to noticing what every cat owner already knew: they domesticated us.
A boy's strange death.
A time-slip in Norfolk.
A 120,000 year old necklace.
Murder in a newspaper office.
And, finally, a man says goodbye to his beloved "damn cat."
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one of the craziest murder cases to ever appear on this blog. And yes, I know that's really saying something. In the meantime, here's Johnny Nash.
Tirpitz the pig had an interesting life. I wonder what he thought about it all. He seemed to become awful big in what was probably a pampered life.
ReplyDeleteAnd time-slips often seem to be rather more than just moving back in time. The people of the past - if it is they - never seem to be alarmed or curious about the modern people thrust into their midst, despite different clothes, manners and speech. And sometimes, the locations become downright creepy, as if they are distortions of what they were. Weird.