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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump tips its hat to you!
The account book of an early 19th century man-about-town.
There's a pothole in Earth's magnetic field, and NASA is unhappy about it.
The heyday of theater riots.
Confederate guerrillas in Florida.
The theft of rare clocks that was solved by a deathbed confession.
Ordering a mother's funeral. It got complicated.
Charles I tries a political relaunch, and it goes just the way you'd think.
Some remarkable new photos of the Moon.
England's oldest rowboat ferry.
The first cruise ship.
A fight for survival at sea.
The oldest known cancer case.
Some battles where both sides lost.
Working dogs in medieval England.
The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro.
The life of a 17th century female scholar.
The "real" mummy's curse.
When Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland.
A visit to Westminster Abbey.
The island of 80,000 dogs.
The White Lady of Seaton Delaval Hall.
The coronation of Henry V.
Coronations and ceremonial iconography.
The twin gynecologists who inspired the film "Dead Ringers."
The mystery of the disappearing skeleton.
The history of an Empress' tree.
The mystery of the vending machine murders.
The taxi driver and the disappearing passenger.
Ancient erotic magic.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at murder and allegations of witchcraft. In the meantime, get ready for the baby goat stampede.
Another good selection of stories. I read with interest the story about battles that both sides lost, though I'd have to argue that only Sheriffmuir was a true draw. I don't think Waterloo could be considered anything but a defeat for the French. The island of dogs makes for sad reading, but at least something is being done about it. The most interesting article was, I think, that about the guerilla warfare in Florida, durig the U.S. Civil War. I enjoy reading about 'side-shows' in bigger wars. This one was indeed important to the general conflict. Who would have thought that Florida was at one time famous for its beef? And had a cattle population five times that of the human? And the baby goat stampede had me laughing - not quite as deadly as the stampede in "King Solomon's Mines". (But Renn was glued to the video!)
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