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Welcome to the first Link Dump of April 2022!
The caddish side of John Keats.
Tragedy at the Salvation Army.
Mysterious ancient stone jars have been found in India.
A WWI massacre at sea.
The grim and ghostly history of an Edinburgh pub.
A brief look at turf mazes.
Amy Johnson, 1930s Queen of the Air.
Here's your chance to achieve your lifelong dream of visiting Henry III's toilet!
The life of a Victorian criminal.
Shropshire wedding folklore.
The female detective who foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln.
A shocking small-town murder.
A beautiful close-up image of the Sun.
Women in medieval leper hospitals.
The current state of cloning. No one loves cats more than I do, but the thought of having one of them cloned gives me the heebie-jeebies.
The quest for the perfect foot.
Some famous corpses that failed to rest in peace.
Sacred sites and anomalous lights.
A remarkable Victorian doctor.
Donatello, father of the Renaissance.
A Copper Age "amber man."
That time the U.S. and the Soviets were in a race to revive the dead. And you thought the Cuban Missile Crisis was bad.
A very early "curse tablet."
Rehearsing your own funeral. An old "Midsomer Murders" included a guy who did that. He said proudly that his coffin had silk lining because "nylon is so scratchy."
The medieval mind of C.S. Lewis.
The heroic merchantman and the French privateer.
A medieval exorcism manual.
Early Modern English writing about the Ottomans.
A "very public and messy divorce." For a blogger, that is the best kind of divorce.
An 18th century travel writer.
The murder immortalized by Poe.
Werewolves of Quebec. But was their hair perfect?
Has the Dyatlov Pass mystery been solved?
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a bride's puzzling death.
In the meantime, here's this lovely Welsh folk song:
Your blogs have been a lifesaver lately. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI know of Amy Johnson from my 1920s and '30s copies of 'Punch' magazine. She was often feted in their pages.
ReplyDeleteThe article on C. S. Lewis was very interesting; it also wrote of Tolkien, and how he depicted Hobbits, who were, in essense, Englishmen of Tolkien's day, easy-going, unadventurous, good-natured people who liked 'well-ordered' and quiet nature. Not a bad existence, if you can find it...
Oh, and English folk-songs... Whenever I think of or hear 'Barbara Allen', I am reminded of the 1951 movie, "Scrooge".
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