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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to the last Link Dump of August 2023!
Thankfully, the Strange Company HQ staffers are finally returning from their summer vacation.
How three fingers in a jar became an Ohio tourist attraction.
Before there was K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters.
The difficulties of publishing during WWII.
Scientists really have no concept of "unintended consequences."
Why you would never want to be in the same building with Joseph Maski.
The disappearance of SS Marine Sulphur Queen.
The Portuguese Bank Note Scandal.
"Seditious publications" in early 20th century India.
Alternate history time: What if Queen Elizabeth I had died in 1562?
The shooting of a Hollywood clubman.
A mysterious Pictish stone.
The murder of a jogger.
An accessory to murder, 1772.
The world's oldest animation.
This one's for all you "exploding corpse" fans.
A lost ancient "miracle plant" may have been rediscovered.
Recreating the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Looking at the results, I sort of wish they hadn't bothered.
The significance of Dave the Potter.
I assume all of you want to spend hundreds of dollars for a cow stomach. One that you carry around with you.
A 5,000 year old jewelry factory.
Cats in the Illustrated Police News.
The Lettuce Wars.
The lost treasure of Padre Island.
A visit to Walton on the Naze.
The assassination of Michael Collins.
Let's talk see-through squids with demon eyes.
An odd little story about some stolen items that belonged to Alan Turing.
A possible clue regarding the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller.
12,000 year old sequins.
Yet another failed Utopia.
A deadly pudding recipe.
The disappearance of Diane Webb. I don't think this one is particularly mysterious, though. I'll leave it at that.
The legend of the Witch of Yazoo.
The birth of "easy listening" music.
A cat who survived nine days adrift at sea.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the murder of a Prohibitionist. In the meantime, here's Ensemble Unicorn.
I first read about silphium back in the '60's in the reprint of the Doc Savage novel Fear Cay still one of my favorites https://docsavage.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Cay
ReplyDeleteThe article on publishing in wartime reminds me of a 1916 'Whitaker's Almanac' I still have: the binding is partly made of re-used newspaper. The 'animation' on the goblet I don't consider real animation: it's more like a comic strip; clever and fun, nonetheless. Poor Tabby in the rowboat; he had a cat's luck, fortunately. And I like Walton on the Naze. It looks like a pleasant, colourful place to visit. (It's about time the HQ staff got back to work! I envy their contracts...)
ReplyDeleteBonnie Prince Charlie looks a little, mmm, modern. The type you might run into at any shopping mall. I'm not sure if the reason is the difficulties in figuring out what an old man who had a stroke looked like when he was younger, the tendency of some of the reconstructions to have fairly modern hair styles or possibly, that's the way he really looked. I can see a resemblance to his portraits - but portrait painters were known to try to make their sitters look as good as possible.
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