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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
The staff at Strange Company HQ is already preparing for Thanksgiving dinner!
A 2,000 year old ring that spent the last 28 years in someone's cupboard.
The ghost of a murder victim is charged with contempt of court.
Charles I's warrior queen.
A brief history of Southern California's Santa Ana winds. ("Fill my sails/Oh desert wind/And hold the waves high for me/Then I will come/And test my skill/Where the Santa Ana winds blow free...")
They're still finding a lot of mummies--and pyramids!--in Giza.
A teenager's particularly brutal murder. At least this one was solved.
How not to honor Armistice Day.
An aristocratic--and extremely dangerous--family.
Dealing with the plague in 17th century England.
The Royal Canadian Navy and the sinking of U-501.
I'll just have a cheese sandwich, thanks. (As an aside, I note that we've reached the point on our Crazy Train where Frankenmeat grown in a giant fuel-powered factory is considered more environmentally-friendly than a cow.)
A brief history of Christmas ghost stories.
A Baltic medieval shipwreck is making archaeologists very happy.
America's first End Times prophecy.
Egypt's WWII surrealist movement.
The strange ghost of Camp Hero.
The people of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Some revolutionary aspects of 19th century cooking.
Earth's first known mass extinction.
A ghostly, burning ball.
The vicar who loved exclamation marks.
A bird's very long flight.
A tribute to lonely bandstands.
Some forgotten corners of Old London.
A look at turnspit dogs.
How ancient cats came to Europe.
The dead heads of Annecy.
That time when a Normandy town saved U.S. paratroopers.
"Finders keepers" in maritime law.
The first investigation of an aircraft accident.
Trying to explain the unexplainable.
How a cat launched the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
Some vintage baking tips.
Isaac Newton's cure for the plague may have been worse than the plague.
A murder at a brothel.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a young woman's strange death. In the meantime, here's a bit of Bach.
A 2,000 year old ring that spent the last 28 years in someone's cupboard.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the Molitor Stradivarius that spent 37 years under someone's bed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molitor_Stradivarius
I grew up in Derry and walked past the house where it was almost every day on my way to school.
The sinking of the German submarine by the RCN was an exciting tale. I would not have liked to be in the Battle of the Atlantic; that was a harsh war. I read just recently that 39,000 officers and men served in the German submarine service, and 32,000 were killed in action. They paid for the destruction they wrought.
ReplyDeleteAnd how can they have just found a new pyramid!? That's exciting, too, and all those mummies, but really, losing a pyramid in history!
Oh, and the forgotten corners of London. They all look more interesting than modern London. But then, buildings of the odl days were characteristic of their locations. Now, they are characteristic of a lack of imagination.
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