Friday, April 2, 2021

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

This week, the staffers at Strange Company HQ have been busy posing for their official photos.


What the hell are the Moodus Noises?

Henry II's illegitimate son.

Why Edwin Major got the hanging he deserved.

The story behind an obscure portrait of Ernest Hemingway.

Egypt's tattooed mummies.

A rebel Countess.

18th century barbers and impolite advertising.

A sailor spends Easter in 1835 California.

Suicide at a state senator's house.

Earth, the musical planet.

How not to make eggnog.

The legal system in Elizabethan England.

What happens when you really overthink your dish of pasta.

The complicated history of VCRs.

The Richmond Bread Riot.

A woman's weird disappearance.

Life aboard the prison hulks.

New insights about human evolution in Africa.

The science behind reincarnation.

A man who had a very unlucky face.

The black cowboys of Philadelphia.

"Revolting charges against an undertaker."

The cosmetic quackery of Madame Rachel.

Some medieval Lent recipes.

The missing boy and the con artist.

Albert Einstein, celebrity.

A strange vanishing at Yosemite.

That time the Pope endorsed cocaine.

Some vintage Easter recipes.

A doctor's views on near death experiences.

The strange world of online amateur detectives.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was many things, but Mother of the Year was not among them.

Food shopping in 19th century Paris.

An Englishman's secret life.

The ghost light of Coverdale.

A sailor cat's wartime adventures.

One of Britain's most famous missing-person cases.

The burial bedding of Iron Age Swedish warriors.

Dolls in the Roman Empire.

A look at Britain's first prime minister.

Fake news from 2700 years ago.

The Kongka Pass is one strange place.

That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll go through one very weird tunnel.  In the meantime, here's some Schein.

2 comments:

  1. Ah, VHS versus Beta... I remember the old days. I recall seeing my first video tape recorder; it was one my school had. It was as big as a steamer trunk and was wheeled about on what looked like a medieval siege engine. The good old days...

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    1. When home VCRs first became available, I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It now seems Stone Age compared to what's available now.

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