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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to our pre-St. Patrick's Day Link Dump!
What the hell were the Phoenix Lights?
An iconic tree is getting a second chance at life.
It's oddly depressing to realize that the ocean's depths are filled with cans of Spam.
The great monkey chase at Bishop Auckland.
A brief history of the lunchbox.
Elizabeth I's Swedish lady of the privy chamber.
Why you would not want to be a Mesopotamian stand-in king.
Merchantman vs. a French privateer.
In which we meet some Cockney Cats.
The time the Nazis tried to bomb a Pennsylvania Railroad.
The darker side of London's Zoological Gardens.
The explosion of the Natchez Drug Company.
The excavation of a Neolithic site.
The manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
A poltergeist in Zimbabwe.
The notorious "Chicago May."
Why we call them "cottage industries."
UK's giant redwoods.
Mysterious Ice Age "queens."
A 3,300-year-old description of a catastrophic invasion.
Hearing the cry of the banshee.
The beginnings of the Guinness World Records.
Predicting eclipses in ancient China.
The man who spent nearly his whole life inside an iron lung.
Shropshire death folklore.
The enslaved boy who revolutionized the vanilla industry.
A murder-for-hire case featuring death spells.
The only woman to be executed in Minnesota.
The "Bold Defiance" of 18th century journeymen weavers.
A Russian princess in the Age of Enlightenment.
Applications for Trinity House pensions.
The mystery of the Yuba City Five.
The mystery of a Vietnam "lost pilot."
The mystery of the Byward Tower Hand.
In search of the site of a 19th century murder.
The life of Margaret of Austria.
How witches came to be associated with broomsticks.
The life of Henry IV's sister, Elizabeth.
Rethinking George Washington's 1754 defeat.
The kayaker and the "mystery creature."
Sudden deaths and foul suspicions.
That wraps it up for another week! See you on Monday, when we'll meet a particularly dangerous ghost. In the meantime, here's Patsy Cline.
It's fascinating that Britain has genetic copies of famous plants. A good thing, too. The idea of the Assyrian substitute-king is actually a rather good idea, from the standpoint of an ancient civilisation; rather ingenious. And, depending on the substitute's point of view and beliefs, not a bad way to go, either. And Mr Alexander's life in an iron-lung would be very sad - if he hadn't turned out to have a more fulfilling life than most people. Good going, sir!
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