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This week's Link Dump will leave you on the edge of your seat!
In one manner or other.
Who the hell was Bible John?
Why the hell did this woman tickle so many chins?
What the hell was the Hollinwell Incident?
What the hell is the Waffle Rock?
Indigenous Australians had banana farms.
Meanwhile, in the world of paddleboarding goats...
Cremation goes back a long way.
Some four-legged silent film bit players.
The geologist and the mystery creature.
The fiery Fortean death of Mary Reeser.
A brief history of calling cards.
A party castle in the jungle.
The Oxfordshire sheep panics.
The women of Arthurian legend.
The philosophy of executions.
A sleigh tragedy.
Remember that story about the teenagers who eloped to live in a cave? It all worked out pretty much like you'd think.
Ceres is an ocean world.
Is Mars overrated?
Goodbye to the second-hand bookshop.
The kind of thing that happens when you're too good a pilot.
A strange coincidence from WWII.
Yo-ho-ho, and a coffin of rum.
How to win a fight and lose it at the same time.
Black Peggy and the foundling hospital.
The world's most complicated cake recipe.
A Japanese Bigfoot.
The treadmill as a form of punishment.
A poor boy's progress in Victorian England.
A look at the Weekly World News, possibly the world's weirdest publication.
Longfellow and death.
A medieval noblewoman's long life as a prisoner.
A seditious printer.
A spot for tourists who don't want tourist spots.
Using seashells as money.
The very long history of poison arrows.
Christchurch, New Zealand has an official wizard.
The country estate of actor Edwin Forrest.
This week in Russian Weird looks at Siberia's lost pianos. And deranged terrorist camels.
The Simmondley pit shaft horror.
The death of theater criticism.
The death of sleeper trains.
A hunter's unsolved disappearance.
A Welsh Roswell.
A Portuguese "Woodhenge."
Murder at a hotel.
And that wraps things up for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a priest's mysterious murder. In the meantime, as it's supposed to be 104 degrees today here at Strange Company HQ, I thought this song would be appropriate.
Hi Undine!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I haven't been reading the link dump because I'm busy working on my book. But you NEED to see this link. The capper to the story is, that the Department of Natural Resources has no power to issue a citation to wildlife for destroying public property. As to the rest of the story, it involves a drone, a lake, and wildlife taking offense at a really bad spelling mistake. For full viewing pleasure, read to the end! Here it is:
https://www.michigan.gov/mienvironment/0,9349,7-385-90161-535800--,00.html
That eagle certainly knows how to deal with government intrusion on his property.
DeleteFans of the Jack Benny Show from radio know that Jack, et al, often traveled via sleeper car and that Rochester was introduced as a train porter on March 28, 1937.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/listen/4987/comedies/Jack_Benny/37_03_28_The_Train_Porter.html
The woman tickling chins certainly tickled a diverse lot. She was probably just glad to have the soldiers home and safe. As for the end of the second-hand bookshop, that's sad, and, perhaps inevitable these days. It's not that people aren't buying and reading books, but they can get a wider variety and a wider variety of prices, on-line. Take me back to the chin-tickling days...
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