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Each Friday, the staff at Strange Company HQ jump for joy when the Link Dump is finally ready to post!
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What the hell is the Disc of Sabu?
A young man's weird disappearance.
What the well-dressed Victorian ghost was wearing.
The woman who survived being frozen like a Popsicle.
Following in the footsteps of the Pendle Witches.
Nessie sees a fiery meteor.
The ghosts of Flight 401.
The tragic event which gave Mount Willey its name.
A tourist in 19th century Whitechapel.
The world's most durable plant. And, if the truth be known, also one of the world's ugliest.
Contemporary news reports about the building of the Berlin Wall.
Milwaukee, paradise of old maids.
A modern Spring-heeled Jack.
Applied geometry goes back a long way.
Examples of forest folklore.
Unsolved disappearances and the "Button Man."
Body-snatching and Dunblane Cathedral.
A look at very ancient brains.
India's touring tent cinemas.
My two cents: I trust the love of a cat more than I do the love of a lot of humans.
How tuberculosis created the Adirondack chair.
A tale of jealousy and murder.
There are two weird red rocks in the asteroid belt.
A brief history of the British seaside holiday.
How the poor ate in 19th century Paris. (Spoiler: not very well.)
British intellectuals meet Russian bears.
Why Brazil set off a riot at the 1932 Olympics.
A cat's practical joke on the New York police.
Modern scientists are practicing alchemy.
A baboon war hero.
Bobbie the Wonder Dog.
The Atlantis of the North Sea.
Neanderthal cave art.
The era of lady tricyclists.
A dead man wins a cycling race. Sort of.
A teenager's unsolved murder.
Some forgotten 19th century novels.
An English schoolboy's WWII-era diary.
The Mellified Man.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the sort of thing that happens when you write a play that Egyptian gods don't like. In the meantime, here's Bob Dylan singing weirdly even for Bob Dylan. Enjoy!
Though tuberculosis wasn't actually cured by good, fresh air, the latter must certainly have help arrest the disease, or at least its symptoms. And enjoying it in the mountains or by a lake in a comfy chair can't hurt, either.
ReplyDeleteOne of my relatives, not really a cat person, once said it was a bit offensive that a cat marking a human by rubbing the side of its face against the legs was basically saying "OK, this one's mine". Or, as the article says, it means "you are familiar and comforting". Me, I just think the cat loves me. I recently adopted a new cat (female, brown tabby, smallish, a bit over a year old in case you were wondering). She started out a bit shy and stayed in hiding for a few days. Then she busily marked me and every object she could reach by rubbing it with her face. She was surely making herself at home and comfortable, and was well on her way to loving her new home!
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