Friday, July 21, 2023

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Step right in and enjoy yet another Summer Link Dump!

You might want to avoid the hammock, though.



Yet another homicidal rejected suitor.

Minnie, prolific feline hotel mascot.

A new look at a famous Elizabethan chronicle.

Connecticut's haunted, abandoned town.

Bobby pins, bobby socks, and bobbies.

The Great London Beer Flood.

Another day, another Jack the Ripper.

Why archaeologists rebury their excavations.

Bits of Beethoven's skull are returning to Vienna.  That's nice, I guess.

Exploring a volcanic underworld.

Women's football in the 1880s.

The clerks of the British House of Commons.

Something in space keeps lighting up, and we have no idea what it is.

A "too early date with death."

What we know--or can guess--about the life of one Anglo-Saxon girl.

A 17th century failed forensic toxicologist.

The latest discoveries at Pompeii.

The strange tale of Ethelbert the Orca's corpse.

A look at vintage patent medicines.

Murder at the QuikTrip.

A woman's murder is solved.  Maybe.

The Mitford sisters in contemporary newspapers.

In which crows and magpies have the last laugh on us.

The man who married five women and murdered five men.  In between rounds of golf.

The Thornley Crape Threat.

The tools of the ghost-hunter's trade.

The Sajama Lines of Bolivia.

Health care for pirates.

Even if I had $27,000 to spend on utter frivolity, (spoiler alert: I don't,) I would not use it to buy a pair of extremely ugly jeans.

Japan's 72 seasons.

The Haunted House of Wetmore.

"Having your coffee drinking interrupted by a meteorite" is an excellent definition of A Bad Day.

How horses see the world.

A road trip turns deadly.

Remember my recent post about libelous tombstones?  They go a long way back.

An early Christian text with an odd history.

That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a renowned sailor's very strange night at sea.  In the meantime, here's one for the guitar fans.

3 comments:

  1. "Health care for pirates."

    I assumed they had MedicARRRRRRRR

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  2. "Connecticut's haunted, abandoned town."

    Dudleyville was closed to the public after The Blair Witch Project came out and 'ghost hunters' were vandalizing the ruins & starting fires.

    For a pleasant ghost town visit Bara Hack, aka the Village of Voices, near Abbington Corners outside Pomfret. Its a lovely walk through the woods with picturesque stone foundations & a gorgeous cemetery gate.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCGQdUV4gU

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  3. I did not know that archaeologists re-bury some of their finds. How do they decide which parts to re-bury? Since there are many exhibits of items excavated, it can't be all of them. And the article on the Saxon girl was fascinating. Why did she emigrate to England? I would love to know her history. And what horses see... It makes sense that it would be quite different than our vision.

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