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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump! Our host this week is a celebrity from 1915, Ecklin's Famous Fat Cat, Miikku!
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out more about our friend here. And, anyway, I think he's just a bit chubby.
Europe's oldest known battlefield.
A brief history of money.
The wild world of hummingbirds.
19th century Parisian fashion styles.
So, you want to be a spy?
Some spirits you definitely don't want to meet.
Some mighty strange creatures live in the deep sea.
When Ray Bradbury met Moby Dick, and things did not go at all well.
The first man to walk around the world.
If you've been longing to pay good money for some aged mold, I have good news!
The life of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
19th century Britain really liked to unwrap mummies.
The end of the world's longest treasure hunt.
Lady Elizabeth Russell, Keeper of the Castle.
Why we stare at "Girl With the Pearl Earring." Although, to be honest, I've never liked that painting. Go figure.
Washington Irving's wildly successful literary hoax.
The "Brides in the Bath" murders.
The Tower of London as seen by Cruikshank.
The life of a British naval hero.
Cavalry vs. cavalry in WWII.
The 1780 invasion of the British Parliament.
Cannibalism and the Franklin Expedition.
The world's first submarine.
Lake Michigan is full of giant craters, and scientists are puzzled.
The world is full of skyquakes, and scientists are still puzzled.
That time San Francisco evicted a bunch of dead people.
The man who had an...unusual musical talent.
The difficulties of dealing with a white elephant from Mandalay.
The dog who saved Warner Brothers.
A brief history of water filtration.
In search of Baba Yaga.
The making of a death mask.
The Celtic origins of Halloween.
The earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic.
WWII prisoners of war stage a "great escape."
The 19th century King of Poachers.
How the Anglo-Saxon language influenced modern English.
The unreliability of eyewitness identification.
An eccentric treasure hunter.
The original symbolism of swastikas.
It's not always a good idea to listen to Ouija boards.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a murder case that turned out to not be what it seemed. In the meantime, here's some Haydn.
Woof!
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Interesting stuff. Miikku doesn't look fat to me, either, but 'fat' in 1915 wasn't what it is now. I read about the 'Brides in the Bath' decades ago, and thought it would make an interesting movie, if done right. I saw one adaptation of the story that actually had one of the brides struggling against her murderer and spilling water all over the floor! That of course went against the reality of the mystery. The escape from the Italian prison-camp I've also come across before. I have Carton de Wiart's book of memoirs. He was a fascinating fellow (I based the second C's physical appearance in my book "Inductions Dangerous" on him.) De Wiart was wounded eleven times, lost an eye and a hand, still led men in battle, lived between the wars on a secluded Polish estate, commanded troops and was under fire in his sixties, and called his memoirs "Happy Odyssey", mentioning neither of his two wives, nor his Victoria Cross! As for the swastika, a light blue version was for long the symbol of the Finnish Air Force, coming from an unlikely source: it was a good-luck symbol of a rich Swede who donated the two aeroplanes that became Finland's first military aircraft. In that donor's honour, the swastika was adopted as the air force's symbol.
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