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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's time for this week's Link Dump!
And the Strange Company staffers are ready to celebrate!
A mysterious triple murder.
A melancholy case in Whitechapel.
The "fighting cartoonist" of WWII.
This week's scientific "Oopsie!" moment.
A lemon that incited a citrus panic.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the official Worst Dish in the World. Voters were obviously unaware of this Mexican restaurant I visited in West L.A. back in the '80s. I don't know how you make cheese enchiladas completely toxic, but this place pulled it off.
Some weird things found in amber.
Jane Austen's house is for sale.
There's something very weird and very bright out in space, and astronomers don't have a clue.
The port city that fell off a cliff.
Winston Churchill's airplane egg.
The holidays of Old London.
Appalling scenes at a burial ground.
A folk song immortalizes a train derailment.
Birmingham, England's first black minister.
The beginnings of the legend of the Holy Grail.
That time when musicians were banned from an East India Company voyage.
A look at Shropshire fairies.
The half-sister of Dido Elizabeth Belle.
Honoring the dead by dining with them.
How to manage a medieval household.
An 18th century printer and publisher.
You will undoubtedly be shocked to learn that injecting yourself with a crushed black widow spider isn't a great idea. What a species we are.
A man's 30-year relationship with a fish.
Don't underestimate oral histories.
The curse of the Riff Pirates.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one of the weirder "close encounter" stories. In the meantime, here's some glass harp.
An earlier 'fighting caroonist' who may interest you is Bruce Bairnsfather, who was a hero to millions of British soldiers in the Great War for his drawings of Old Bill and Young Bert. The story of Dunwich is a sad tale of inevitability, sadder perhaps because it was once a large and thriving community.
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