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The host of this week's Link Dump has the honor of representing cats everywhere.
Watch out for cursed cars!
The Twitchell/Hill murder. Illustrated!
Dickens was not a very nice guy, and his books show it.
Becoming a math genius, the hard way.
If you're going to fake your own death, remember that good spelling counts.
How a viral tweet revived an extinct drink.
The Victorian obsession with premature burial.
Exploring an Iron Age burial mound.
The Pentagon goes UFO hunting.
From Sea Beggar to Beheaded Beggar.
Lady Gray, foster mother to puppies.
One really freaking old butter dish.
The "Theophrastan character.”
So let's talk screaming mummies. (And a rebuttal.)
You want to know how big the Pacific Ocean is? This big.
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Some notable goddesses.
The first Europeans on Tahiti.
London's railway of the dead.
A serial killing sorcerer.
Cattle mutilations and a satanic cult.
The strange death of a mysterious hiker.
Venus may have active volcanoes.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spiritualist.
Jane Austen and the Royal Navy.
The death of a doll.
Sometimes, good deeds are rewarded.
The Auschwitz "hanging of the twelve."
This week in Russian Weird visits a haunted museum. And the world's weirdest radio station.
The history of women avoiding execution by "pleading the belly."
How an urban legend turned an accountant into the Richmond Vampire.
That time when Coney Island sent you to Hell.
A British writer's description of an early 19th century New York resort hotel.
Film of the Apollo moon landings, enhanced.
The mystery of Sweden's "sleeping beauty."
The tsunami that devastated prehistoric Britain.
The teenager who tried to assassinate Queen Victoria.
A recipe for Soviet Pizza which is just as horrifying as you'd imagine.
A visit to Waltham Abbey.
The neuroscience of nostalgia.
Blacks in Georgian England.
A fatal case of criminal neglect.
The life of Mark Twain's wife.
South Texas has a headless horseman.
How ancient humans traveled from Siberia to Patagonia.
Ancient non-human mummies.
"Screams blasted into the wilderness" pretty much says it all about 2020.
How DNA allowed a man to find his past.
The moon's mysterious lights.
The grounds of Fulham Palace.
A pioneering 18th century naturalist.
The amateur professor.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an unusual 18th century poltergeist. In the meantime, here's Fairport Convention.
the Waltham Abby link goes to the nostalgia artcile.
ReplyDeleteSorry about that! Fixed the link.
DeleteNotable goddesses - why not Cloacina?
ReplyDeleteThe article on Dickens was illuminating though, I think, like many psychological insights, it - or, rather, the book it writes about - goes too far, eventually accusing all men of having Dickens's dark side. On the other hand, the two sides of Victorian England are shown well by contrasting the article with what happened to the young man who tried to kill Queen Victoria. In other countries, Bean would have been executed. Even today, he would not have been treated so leniently. Eighteen months in prison is a pretty light sentence.
ReplyDeletenow the Jane Austen link leads to a differnt stroy as well.
ReplyDeleteArgh. I give up.
Deleteatleast you knwo I'm paying attention.
DeleteWith this blog, I don't know if that's welcome news...
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