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This week's Link Dump is hosted by a band of beloved Little Tramps.
And Charlie Chaplin.
A cursed murder house.
How a banned Russian masterpiece finally got published.
The murder of Agnes Tulfverson. (And, yeah, there's no doubt the poor woman was murdered. The identity of the guilty party isn't too mysterious, either.)
Newly discovered footage of the Hindenburg disaster.
Ventspils, Latvia sure loves its cows.
Ten tragic military heroes.
In search of a lost river in London.
DO NOT BREAK AMELIA'S PLATES.
A look at the "great dying."
Why it's not a good idea to sleep wearing false teeth.
A metal detector finds stolen treasure.
A look at the "twopenny hangover."
Lady Rochford and the fall of Anne Boleyn.
A baboon's high-wire act.
Napoleon's--possibly--fatal love of cologne.
A bicyclist's unsolved murder.
Aboriginal memory techniques.
A brief history of play.
Mourning rules for divorcees.
When Elizabeth Blackwell met Hans Sloane.
The midwife and the ghost.
Neanderthal cave dust.
This week in Russian Weird looks at tales of lost cosmonauts.
So long, Darwin's Arch.
The making of Saint Thomas Becket.
Don't mess with those girl postal clerks.
Those marvelous 18th century buttons.
A look at "The Compleat Angler."
A ghost hoax in Braybrooke.
There are a lot of possible punchlines to this story, but I'm not going to be the one to publish them.
The blog Dead But Dreaming added some valuable footnotes to my recent post about the levitating butler.
The fine art of pickpocketing.
A brief history of change.
John Dee and a very strange book.
USS Omaha meets a UFO.
The concerts of the Paris Commune.
An exorcist's strange death.
Old occupations, from A to Z.
How clothing may have changed human civilization.
The travails of a Victorian trunk maker.
This week in Russian Weird looks at cloned ancient armies.
A novel way to get a new suit of clothes.
The cake of the patron saint of bakers.
More examples of the U.S. military seeing some mighty weird things.
The Vega Expedition and the North-East passage.
The jade burial suits of China.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one of WWI's nuttier moments. In the meantime, hope your weekend's free of Trouble.
Interests addenda to your story about the levitating butler. I've always been glad not to have seen fairies... And Walton's "The Compleat Angler" makes me think of fair summer mornings in a pleasanter, less hurried world, with nothing to do but drowse under a willow by a stream.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, thanks to your mention of "May to December" being on YouTube, I've started re-watching that series through that medium. There is a Christmas special I never saw. That series, and "Frasier" are my two favourite tv comedies, I think.
Astonishing footage of the "Hindenburg" disaster...
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