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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump brings on more of our hard-partying Christmas cats!
Tombstones that contain recipes.
A particularly awful disaster at sea.
Ancient religious icons, or toys made by children? Archaeologists are stumped.
What to do with all those second-hand tombstones you have lying around.
How to make your very own Hand of Glory. I kinda hope you don't want to, though.
The oldest known narrative scene.
An ancient jawbone may tell quite a tale.
Robert Walpole and the Atterbury Plot.
Merle Oberon's hidden past.
A video for everyone who's ever wondered what the Rosetta Stone actually says.
The weird side of being a second-hand bookseller. You never know when Napoleon's penis might cross your path.
An East India Company ship goes to China.
A New Mexico serial killer who has yet to be caught.
A look at Christmas parties of the past.
A medieval grave has been discovered which is making archaeologists very happy.
The mystery of the Tombstone Pterodactyl.
The battle for the P-51 Mustang.
The perils of being a dissident archaeologist.
An assortment of old Christmas superstitions.
The Victorian "fasting girls."
A Russian couple in pre-1947 India.
The hotel where people go to die.
A look at one of my favorite poems. Yes, it features a cat.
Christmas shopping with Charles Dickens.
George Cruikshank illustrates the Christmas season.
Kaspar the Savoy Cat.
The life and confessions of a murderer.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll get handy tips about destroying your family's fortune. In the meantime, here's an instrument that's new to me.
https://www.thesavoylondon.com/kaspar-the-famous-savoy-cat/
ReplyDeleteToo many to read at one sitting. The ninth century poem about the cat is a good one - cat and clerk... You would have thought the Jacobites would have realised that support for their cause was minimal - but that never stops the ardent rebel... And I will die at home, hopefully, thanks, not in an hotel, however welcoming they are of the nearly departed...
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