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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Why the hell did people conceal shoes in walls?
Watch out for those haunted pubs!
Murder in a church belfry.
Pro tip: if you want to arrest a female aviator, don't let her be the one with the plane.
A costumed library cat.
An ancient pagan idol has been found in an Irish bog.
An ancient gold earring has been found in Jerusalem.
An ancient treasure trove has been found in Russia.
An ancient monastery has been found in England.
Evidence of ancient butter worshipers has been found in Wales.
A white-haired mummy has been found in Pompeii.
Wally the Walrus tours Ireland.
A horrific bridge tragedy inspired a horrific poem.
Mila the Explorer Cat.
The Palpa geoglyphs.
Some bad--really, really bad--mortuary poetry.
The sleeping sickness epidemic of 1916.
Examining an 18th century armchair.
A watch from the Titanic.
A mysterious Neolithic stone.
The secrets of ancient magnetism. (More on the topic can be found here.)
In which we learn that JMW Turner had a horse named "Crop Ear."
British archaeologists and the Turkish government are battling over seeds.
Honoring the UK's plethora of rude place names.
The real-life Monopoly Man.
The year without a summer.
An Englishwoman's American Revolution-era letters.
The pubs of 1920s London.
A mysterious cave in Greece.
A gruesome cave in Saudi Arabia.
The fire at the Smithsonian Institute.
A huge Great Depression scrapbook.
Those ever-popular curse tablets.
How Victorian British MPs spent their holidays.
American food rationing during WWII.
Stonehenge is nearly indestructible.
A brief history of the pickup truck.
A ghost scare in Coventry.
An account of the Athenian Plague.
2,000 year old bouquets.
A brief history of pay toilets.
And right on schedule, Cthulhu has arrived.
The disappearance of a telepathy researcher.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a musical ghost. In the meantime, here's some French-Canadian folk.
Quite a variety of posts again. The discovery of the monastery brought to mind the location - Cookham - which I recalled as being what Grahame had in mind as the model for the setting of "The Wind in the Willows". The 1930s scrapbook is immense - and of course filled with value for history lovers like me. The comic strip mentioned ('Wash Tubbs') may have still been going in my youth, as 'Captain Easy, Wash Tubbs', an adventure strip. All very interesting. (Though it looks like the celebration of the Link Dump has been going on a bit too long...)
ReplyDeleteI just love these weekend link dumps. Thank you so much! Always a surprise, and this week some of my favorites were in the bad poetry category. The Union Forever!
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