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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's time for this week's Link Dump.
Grab a beach chair.
The fad of "ornamental hermits."
The restoration of a Chinese gunboat.
An investigation into undocumented prehistoric languages.
The recipe that inspired a whole lot of fish cookouts.
The murder that inspired America's first third political party.
A look at what is possibly the world's greatest collection of dog photographs.
Is your personality determined by where you live?
The tomb of a very successful medieval lawyer.
An Anglo-Indian family of public servants.
A skeptic looks at the Philadelphia Experiment.
The theory of advanced civilizations that predated humans.
Planning to do some bar-hopping? Don't forget the poison-detecting guinea pigs!
Some vintage slang terms for sex.
The Wolf of Ansbach.
Specialized "widow's outfits."
Lawyers always have to stick their noses into everything. Including contact with aliens.
The evolution of Barbie dolls.
A Victorian "calculating boy."
Murdering a murderer.
Some very old--and very freaking big--hand axes.
The first Mardi Gras parade.
Discovering the wreck of a WWII carrier.
The shapeshifting spirits of Yorkshire.
The giants of Shropshire.
The flying humanoids of Chicago.
The hidden horse steps of Whitby.
A note that may--or may not--be in Chaucer's handwriting.
Let me make this very clear: I do not want my house to rotate.
The pilots who inspired "The Little Prince."
The housewife who invented the dishwasher.
The cyclist whose death inspired the start of drug testing before races. (Warning: there are photos showing him dead.)
The history of a famous quote about American riflemen.
The history of the Women's Royal Navy Service.
The history of the Hollywood sign.
The history of pointy hats.
The "blood falls" of Antarctica.
The Jersey Devil has been kidnapped.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly puzzling murder. In the meantime, here's a cheery little tune from the SFO.
Thank you for telling us about the world's greatest collection of dog photographs.
ReplyDeleteI'd not heard of the 'Chicago mothman'. I wonder if a number of the 'historical accounts' are merely copycat stories. And the story of the family of Indian civil servants was an interesting read. It was confusing for me at first, as, historically, 'Anglo-Indian' referred to Britons who lived and worked all their lives in India; now it refers to what used to be called 'Eurasians'. I think the earlier term might be more accurate, as not all the Anglo-Indians were descended from Indians and English people...
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