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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's time for this week's Link Dump!
Let's dance!
The origins of "wet behind the ears."
Jails in Early Modern Ireland.
A man disappears while hunting deer. (This is one of those frustrating cases where you "know" what happened, but nothing was done about it.)
The Duke of Wellington's religious beliefs.
A famed Victorian aerialist.
The 1885 "Panama crisis."
The failed peace plans for WWI.
What it's like to find you're sharing a bedroom with a bear.
Knitting as an espionage tool.
In search of the burial sites of ancient British kings.
Fake news, 1659 style.
A murder and a psychic detective.
There's a "pulsing radiation source" out in space, and nobody has a clue what it is. Well, that's encouraging.
Humans were in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.
The terrible truth behind the "Amityville Horror."
The mystery of the pterodactyl of Tombstone.
WWII's Japanese-American regiment.
The Irish attitude about death.
Ancient tombs have been discovered under Notre Dame cathedral.
In which Richard Brinsley Sheridan elopes.
The mystery of John Edward Despard.
A disappearance in Jamaica.
Ireland's only female patron saint.
A lighthouse haunted by a ghost that loves bread.
More on that theory that your life flashes before your eyes when you die.
The world's oldest known mummy.
Adam Beringer's "lying stones."
Why we beware the "Ides of March."
The evolution of Charles Dickens.
A very weird family road trip.
The 19th century emigration of orphans from Madras to New South Wales.
An example of why it usually doesn't pay to write thinly-disguised fiction about your neighbors.
The secret messages in famous statues.
America's "fish evangelist."
A Victorian tale of youthful heroism.
How a hoax turned into a bestseller.
A cat really livens up a church.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly weird witchcraft trial. In the meantime, here's a bit of beauty for your Friday.
An excellent article on the Duke Of Wellington's religion. He is often shown as rather too modern a man in movies and tv series in which he features. He was a man of his times - he just had a heck of a lot of common sense.
ReplyDeleteAnd the article on Dickens in 1851... That year would have been a remarkable one in which to live, I think.
Re:The Tpmbstone Pterydactyl - I was sure I had seen a photo reproduced in some modrn book on weird animals, and expected to ss it here and de-bunked. Evidently I just pictured the picture based on some description of it. Intersting to know I had created a false memory without anything mnore than reading a description of it !
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