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This week's Link Dump features an appropriate motto for this blog.
What the hell happened to Flight 19?
The Golden Era of walking women.
How the president's home came to be the "White House."
Shopping, early 19th century style.
One of Finland's strangest UFO cases.
How to appease a House Elf.
"Gallant, clean, and drunk." You go, Charles Old.
Analyzing a famed William Hogarth painting.
London's literary Gothic.
In praise of adjectives.
The oldest known "place name" sign.
A baby's death helps uncover a really weird story.
Some early rabies treatments.
An assortment of narrow escapes.
Burial shoes: they're not just for the dead anymore!
Mummies that show evidence of ancient hospice care.
The Air Force Sergeant and the UFO.
A haunted New England schoolhouse.
A Pennsylvanian peg-legged killer.
Isaac Newton and the Pyramids.
The Amazon's Man of the Hole.
The destruction of HMS Doterel.
That time someone mailed a cat and some rabbits.
The diary of a 19th century Afghan noblewoman.
A haunted murder house in California.
Festive traditions from the 14th century.
The Hope Street body snatchers.
The Neanderthal who fell down a well.
Were meteorites the first gods?
That ever-popular Cock Lane Ghost.
A man follows his instincts, and avoids disaster.
The early days of TV in the Soviet Union.
A Christmas ghost story.
*Looks at my mayor* A very wise one, I'd say.
A consequential horse flu epidemic.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly perplexing murder.
Every Christmas season, I watch various holiday concerts and services on YouTube. (None of the sad "virtual" shows that are being put on this year; just ones from when the world was normal.) I particularly love the carols put on by the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and this is my favorite of their songs.
I thought Abe Froman was the Sausage King of Chicago.
ReplyDeleteThat was a very interesting about the U.S. presidential mansion being called the White House before the British burned it (in retaliation for the Americans burning a whole Canadian town). Yet it didn't explain why, even if it wasn't called the White House because it was painted to cover up scorch marks, it was called 'white'. I assume that it was actually that colour, but the article doesn't state that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I can't think of Soviet television without remembering the SCTV episode in which the Russians take over the station's signal, and broadcast such programmes as 'What Fits in the Soviet Union'...