Friday, September 2, 2022

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


After you've read the links, feel free to join the Strange Company staff in a game of croquet!


The Victorian urban legend that scary stories could kill.

No, Lizzie Borden did not confess.

The first-hand account of a woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic.

How a bit of eavesdropping solved a kidnapping.

Not too many people get turned into a sex doll, but that's Alma Mahler for you.

The fugitive Nazi and the Syrian Secret Service.

The possible link between ancient coins and a supernova.

Here's your big chance to explore a really spooky old rail tunnel.

Cricket-player detectives.  Or is it detective cricket-players?

A look at the Isle of Iona.

The man who fought WWII using a bow.

A 1912 chat with a lady undertaker.

The decriminalization of heresy.

The remarkable life of Mughal empress Nur Jahan.

A look at the corpse lily, probably the flower you'd least like to get in a bouquet.

The Onion Pie Murder.

The life story of the girl in a famous Velazquez portrait.

The complicated job of caring for one of the most unusual cloaks in the world.

The lives of soldiers during the Wars of the Roses.

Percy Shelley visits the mountains of West Wales.

That time that America managed to lose a nuke.

Henry VI and the appointment of a Lord Chancellor.

New details about the wreck of the Titanic.

A brief history of the Tunnel of Love.

Digging for Pocahontas.

A rich businessman's puzzling suicide.

The man who loved corvids.

The 1864 Battle of Heligoland.

Rules for fairy fashions.

The untried diplomatic solution for the U.S. to avoid war with Japan.

That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a family's mysterious multiple tragedies.  In the meantime, bring on the madrigals!


2 comments:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6KgbrGSKQ

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  2. I recall reading about Brunner in Syria, though not how he died. What an ignominious and gradual end. And I knew of Jack Churchill, too. He once told a general inspecting his unit that an officer was improperly dressed if he was without his sword.

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