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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is having a Labor Day picnic!
What the hell is the oldest city in the world?
The life and execution of the Pearl of Tyburn.
England's first public toilets for women.
UFOs and Loring Air Force Base.
The Indigo Revolt.
When Rome left Britain.
A murder and America's first blood test expert.
The rules for a 17th century colony on St. Helena.
To be honest, cursed jewels would explain a lot about the Windsors.
The poet of the Solidarity movement.
The ghosts of Sutton Hoo.
This is a first for me: tombstone agent poetry. Probably a first for you, too.
How an earthquake changed Lisbon forever.
A mysterious portrait of a woman.
Mark Twain and mind waves.
More on Clark Gable's stalker.
Hollywood and the music of Wagner.
Prostitution in medieval London.
The acoustics of Stonehenge.
How a 12th century Chinese poet became Crazy Cat Man.
Early 20th century beauty tips.
If you're living in Nottinghamshire, prepare to have your home invaded by spiders the size of your hand who want sex. Have a nice weekend.
The notorious Axeman of New Orleans.
The financier's missing cat.
When you buy a new home and learn a murder victim comes with it.
One of Los Angeles' most horrifying murders.
For this week in Russian Weird, let's talk about mysterious things found in craters.
If you should encounter a polar bear, hope you're good at doing a strip tease.
A girl's strange death in Malaysia.
A Bank Holiday in the music halls.
Frank Lloyd Wright's house of death.
Probably the world's greatest friendship book.
Vlad the Impaler, probably resting in pieces.
The life of a blind 19th century musician.
The crime of Eugene Aram.
The invention of an 18th century tractor.
So, how icy was the last Ice Age?
A call to let Chopin rest in peace.
Honoring a heroic dog.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet one of the wilder characters of Georgian England. In the meantime, here's what happens when Ireland meets Mexico.
the Malayasia storylink is broken, but I found the one that owrks https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/nora-quoirin?rq=malaysia
ReplyDeletei clicked on a link about sex-starved spiders and got the story about polar bears.
ReplyDeleteJust so yyou know osmeone does look at everything.
Sorry about that. Fixed the link. Because who doesn't want to read about giant sex-starved spiders?
Deletethe Nottingham spiders link one leads to the Polar Bear story :-(
ReplyDeleteThe indigo planters in India had a bad reputation even among other Britons. It turned worse when synthetic indigo ruined the natural-indigo trade. Many planters continued to live on in their crumbling houses with the forests reclaiming their land; they acted more like Junkers in old Prussia than Britons.
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