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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is off to the races!
Meet "Hedgehog," the U-boat killer.
Short version: Octopuses have weird brains.
The last sailing warship.
Western Civilization's first recorded haunted house.
The coronation of George III and Queen Charlotte.
A 20,000 year old woman and her deer tooth pendant.
Mark Hamill of the East India Company.
Tales of botanical horrors.
A brief history of powdered hair.
The naked night runners of Western Kenya.
Great moments in bad architecture.
The coronation banquet of Henry VI.
A demon dance that's good for anything that ails you.
A monument for a Princess that turned out to be a "frightful object."
Deciphering a long-lost language.
The Danish Deadhead; Or, How to See the World When You Don't Want to Enjoy the Trip.
Argentina's Loch Ness Monster.
An important fossil find in Wales.
A medieval ghost town in Italy.
The discovery of laughing gas.
The man who was swallowed by a sinkhole. Permanently.
The adventures of a corpse.
Career options for 19th century women.
The strange case of the "Bell Witch."
How to do "knickknack gardening."
The role of MPs in the coronation of Edward VII.
The history of British coronations.
The practicalities of trade in the 18th century Indian Ocean.
The lore of "fairy butter."
What may have been the first aerial murder.
The voodoo soldiers of Arthur's Seat.
The empty city of London.
The murder of a Congressman.
How Horace Harding became a road name.
A man spends most of his life carrying a big secret.
A mysterious death in the Alaskan bush appears to have been solved.
Ancient earthquake-proof architecture.
Australia's famed Child-Eating Bunyip.
Among the Paddington dust heaps.
A mother murders her children.
Partners in revolution.
The popularity of Pomeranians in the 19th century.
How a fiddle group morphed into the Ku Klux Klan.
The Anti-Cat Club wars. (Warning: This is not a pretty story.)
A visit to modern Europe with a Victorian railway guidebook.
The ship that was in two centuries at the same time.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a remarkable con artist. In the meantime, RIP, Gordon Lightfoot. This is my favorite song of his. One of my favorite songs, period.
Amen on the Gordon Lightfoot song !
ReplyDeleteThe monument to Princess Sophia looks like a nightmarish bathtub. The poor lady didn't have much of a good life, it seems, and was followed afterward by that monstrosity. The story of the 'Seeadler' is very interesting. Luckner's voyage may not have materially affected the course of World War One, but he must have done much for German morale. And Twain's observations on his voyage and dates and time were very amusing.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Mr Lightfoot and his music, a true credit to Canada.