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This week's Link Dump features songs from the Strange Company choir!
Watch out for those Egyptian mummy curses!
A bird's-eye view of the Great Pyramid.
Giant ants, golden apples, and a killer cat. Read on.
"We are left standing futilely in the soggy wet fields of novels where the earth is the ravaged, bloodstained scene of dreary crimes and appalling mistakes littered with frostbitten decaying vegetables and plentiful corpses." We're talking about you, Thomas Hardy.
The tragedy that birthed a Victorian lighthouse.
Mysterious fireballs in Mexico.
Emily Dickinson's Christmas cake.
Amber as ancient time capsules.
How one family came to control a Hawaiian island.
The woman who lives in a shipping container in the middle of a New Zealand forest. It's all fun and games until you try having pizza delivered.
The rise and fall of William Catesby.
A possible explanation of why feet keep washing up along the Pacific Northwest coast.
An overly-loyal dog uncovers a grave.
Vermeer's hidden cupid.
Tramp the Police Cat.
The geology of Hell.
The woman who was not killed by Bigfoot.
Africa's only Marian apparition.
The pole honoring Secretariat.
An attempted assassination of Queen Victoria.
A fatal "act of God."
The richest man in history.
A notorious exorcism case.
A brief history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
There's a very strange death mystery playing out in the Sierra National Forest.
The "hand of glory," one of the more gruesome bits of folklore.
A haunted burial mound.
The history of a misquote.
The biggest rock stars of the 19th century.
Plastic surgery is turning people into aliens.
Ancient Rome's most notorious poisoner.
If you have a time machine and are planning to travel to 1907, here's how to pack.
A remarkable recovery from a shotgun injury.
The market value of a broken heart.
A 1911 aviation show.
Death in the Seven Dials.
Yet another murder inspired by jealousy.
How Bruce Springsteen went from rock god to pompous bore.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious subway murder. In the meantime, RIP, Charlie Watts, the best-dressed drummer in rock and roll.
This blog remains fascinating and informative. This week's dump has the best - really, the only decent - explanation of the feet washing ashore on the Pacific's east coast. And it explains why feet never washed up there in the centuries before. And the story of Ni’ihau, the private Hawaiian island is astounding.
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