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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Enjoy this week's Link Dump!
And then feel free to join the Strange Company HQ staffers for some winter fun!
History's biggest art fraud.
The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks.
That ongoing debate about whether King Arthur was a real historical figure.
The father of American sign language.
The miser and his cats.
A vagabond Mughal princess.
The sisters who got us all singing "Happy Birthday."
Some of dentistry's weirder moments.
The oldest known human presence in Europe.
The election of an imprisoned MP.
An American GI's remarkable survival story.
Rabies and the mad stone.
Bog bodies as archaeological cold cases.
The ever-popular Comet Strike Theory.
A Swedish female adventurer.
The treasures found in a 1,300-year-old Panamanian tomb.
A mysterious celebrity hangman.
The women of the ancient Roman military.
A case of tooth-snatching.
How gardens can be murder.
The real "Birdman of Alcatraz."
The Denisovans really got around.
Surviving Antarctica with silly stories.
The East India Company and the "spinsterhood of India."
The life of Hildegarde of Bingen.
The Flour War.
The horrors of Georgian-era dropsy.
The history behind a portrait.
Some early female detectives.
The face of Dante.
The story behind a 200-year-old jumper.
The legacy of Louis Braille.
A case of "justifiable homicide."
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the bizarre deaths of a young couple. In the meantime, here's what happens when Vikings meet the Rolling Stones.
The Beefsteak Club is well-known to me from my reading about London's gentlemen's clubs. It is an interesting story - and always makes me hungry. The 'Comet-strike Theory' seems a good example of people believing what they want, and then making up reasons why others don't believe it, instead of realising they may be wrong. I had not heard of the culture that existed in Panama 1300 years ago; more knowledge to tuck away. And what a history the Mughal court created in their story of Akbar!
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