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This week's Link Dump is off to the races!
A visit to Morden College.
OK, let's talk deviant nuns.
Examining a weird double death.
That time Geoffrey Chaucer's father was kidnapped. It's quite the medieval soap opera.
The context behind some famous Napoleon quotes.
The world's oldest bottle of wine. And, no, you would not want to drink it.
The famed Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.
Cremation in Victorian Britain.
Yes, there are such things as eyelash superstitions.
A man involved in the Berners Street Hoax.
How we began comforting people with the words, "there, there."
The magical calendar which gives the secret to everything.
Scientists are squabbling over a 7 million year old fossil.
So, who's up for having a whisky featuring beaver anal glands?
A Dutch Halloween party, 1899.
Dangerous dancing dandies!
The Bradford Sweets Poisoning.
In search of Mary Seacole, innovative nurse.
The significance of a rock from ancient Greece.
Julia, life-saving dog.
MONGOLIAN DEATH WORMS. I am so happy to have the opportunity to add those words to my blog.
Thomas Bewick talks cats.
"Honey, what's for dinner?" "36,000 year old bison meat." There are times when I think scientists have way too much spare time on their hands.
A woman who married not wisely, but too damn often.
A leaden coffin and a gloomy vault.
The village that just keeps humming.
One very lonely house.
Meet Jonathan, the world's oldest living animal.
The adventures of a 19th century aeronaut.
Every parent wants their kids to do well at school, but this may be going a bit too far.
The last fight between mounted lancers.
Some archival papers of Prime Ministers.
That time when America banned sliced bread.
A marriage drama in 19th century high places.
Astronomers are seeing some freaky things, and they're not happy about it.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an early 20th century journalist's very strange encounter. In the meantime, I felt I couldn't ignore the biggest news story of the week. I'm no royalist, but I liked Elizabeth. Fate handed her a very strange job, and she performed it as well and conscientiously as she could. (I always suspected she would have been far happier as country village housewife Lizzie Windsor.) I'm sorry to see one of the few remaining links to a bygone world go.
The Mongolian death worm makes me think of those giant sand worms from "Dune"; do you think they may be related? After all, there seems to be a genuine Tartar sand boa... The article about the lonely house on the Icelandic island made me chuckle when I read the belief of some that it belonged to a billionaire hoping to avoid the 'zombie apocalypse'. That particular catastrophe has to be the strangest of all feared events, since its possibility is entirely made up; it's more an entertainment side-industry than a real concern. And 'there there' interested me; the evolution of words is fascinating to me.'
ReplyDeleteAs for Her Majesty's death, as a royalist, it is a great and sad event for me. But for many, many people, certainly those in Britain, it will be a great change. My country has a king, and that will be a huge difference in itself.
I rarely post comments, but I have to admit that I am jealous of the Mongolian Death Worm addition.
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