"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, June 16, 2023

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Watch out during this week's Link Dump.  We have a bunch of criminals in our midst.



What's on the menu when you live at the South Pole.

Seriously, why do English kings seem to have a thing for winding up in parking lots?

The memorial to the Poem Tree.

Money-saving recipes from the Depression era.

Saturn's moon is believed to be inhabitable.  Don't count on spending a vacation there, though.

The Robinson Crusoe of Singapore.

The history of the word "defenestration."

Virginia's "TV fairy."

A look at Charlotte Corday's assassination manifesto.

An early 20th century English painter.

Remembering one East India Company soldier and forgetting another.

Scandal hits the House of Capet.

An unsolved child-murder in Maryland.

Those dangerous cups of tea.

Childbirth during the Georgian era.

A cat's birthday festival.

The fine art of genealogy snobbery.

The medical equipment required for a 19th century military expedition.

A murder mystery from 700 years ago.

Yet another "pushing back human history" link.

A Clown Motel's appropriately ghoulish history.

A handy guide to Elizabethan curses and insults.

One from the "ghostly faces in window panes" file.

How to survive historical catastrophes.

Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours has been identified.

A dog catches a murderer.

British "factory girls" in WWII.

One very bad mother.

The prosecution of killer pigs.

The world's first museum.

Poland's Green Mosque.

AI is now imitating John Lennon.

An ancient "lost world."

The 1857 Language of Flowers.

A feud turns deadly.

That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a never-forgotten 18th century murder.  In the meantime, get ready for summer!

1 comment:

  1. The 'TV fairy' story is bizarre, to say the least. The motive remains the most mysterious element, though putting time and effort into prosecuting the offender comes a close second... I have long admired Stringer Lawrence - and Clive, too, for that matter, as much of his misapprobation was the result of bias. Lawrence was a most interesting and intelligent man. As for English kings under parking lots, perhaps we should ask why there are so many blasted cars that need parking lots... And the Depression era recipes are good ones; it's a shame we need them again...

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