"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, August 16, 2024

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

Although the Strange Company HQ staffers are already nagging me about next week's post.




Benjamin Franklin and the scandalous printer.

A brief history of UFO sightings.

A possible origin of the Atlantis legend.

A possible sign of "intelligent design."

Bog bodies and bog butter.

Cats grieve when other pets die.   I've noticed that they do with humans, as well.


The scents of ancient Cyprus.

A particularly ghoulish murderer.

Foods that were created by Big Government.

Earth has many Gates of Hell, and I for one am not a bit surprised.

The East End and hopping season.

Stonehenge turns out to be part Scottish.


The writings of Victorian governesses.


How do breakdancers avoid breaking themselves?

The Great Depression birthed a movement to create a new state.

This week in Russian Weird looks at when tax collectors carried battle axes.

What might be the earliest plant artifact ever found.

The cost of goods, then and now.

A temple associated with Jesus may have been found.


Indian warrior women vs. the East India Company.

The rise of the British holidaymaker.

Horses have...horse sense.

In Athens, modern buildings house ancient ruins.

DNA has established the identity of a WWI soldier.

DNA has debunked one theory about Kaspar Hauser.

The graffiti of Pompeii.

The Titanic and a secret warehouse.

A haunted tunnel in London.

The historic wallpapers of Spitalfields.

The secret New York love nest of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst.

How North America fell out of love with cricket.


Grim graffiti from an ancient Roman prison.

Yet another unhappy marriage ends in poison.

The Darwin Awards go a long way back.

The janitor and the UFO.

The legends of the Smithsonian Museum.


New theories about the Battle of Hastings.


That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll talk time-slips. In the meantime, here's a bit of Spanish music.


 

1 comment:

  1. I had not known about Absaroka, the would-be state of the U.S., though I note the article states that its name was pronounced without the second syllable being sounded. (I could see its name becoming a humorous slang-term: "Are you going to the new state?" "Absaroka!") The gates of Hell reminds me of a friend's reaction to the synopsis of the movie "The Sentinel", about a woman who 'learns that her New York apartment contains a gate to Hell.' The friends sighed and said, "It never rains but it pours..." That Kraft created a meal that was a 'non-perishable food item' does not surprise me...

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