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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Let the show begin!
Watch out for the White Things of Appalachia!
Watch out for the ruched widow!
A young woman's unsolved murder.
The works of a medieval female poet.
A visit to the Museum of British Folklore.
What you could eat at an 1845 London Christmas market.
George III's regency crisis.
Letters from the real "Wolf Hall."
When clothing wasn't boring.
When the Knights of Malta had an air force.
A duel that wound up being an unexpected medical treatment.
One of the odder footnotes in the world of publishing.
Sir John Pryce, who really should have stayed a bachelor.
A medieval countess enters a convent.
An early female photographer.
The actor and the sea serpent.
Orcas are back to wearing dead salmon hats. Carry on.
A death from a broken heart.
A mysterious ancient stone slab containing an unknown language. H.P. Lovecraft, call your office.
A look at Hogarth's "cruelty."
History and haunted places.
Victorian letters to Santa.
The cat came back!
Jim the Wonder Dog.
The literary landscape of 19th century Paris.
A line of ancient humans who may have been more intelligent than we are. Low bar, I know.
Chinese Emperors and supernatural horses.
That time when wild monkeys terrorized New York.
The origins of the phrase, "tuckered out."
The mysterious Hellenikon Pyramid.
The latest theory about the Loch Ness Monster.
A fountain that may have once been a clock.
Hitler's disastrous "halt order."
The latest "rewriting history" discovery.
A Roman dinner of death.
The history of the bidet.
Archaeologists have found an ancient clay head, and everyone's a bit creeped out by it.
The graffiti of Tower of London prisoners.
A woman who reshaped the Canadian frontier.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the sort of thing that happens when you start messing around with Ouija boards. In the meantime, here's Percy Sledge.
It's a bit frustrating that the article doesn't explain how 'tuck' went from meaning 'tortured' to 'pull in, fasten up'; I can guess only that, like the 'tuckered' horse or dog, it's how one looked after being tormented. Hilliard, to be honest, sounds more interesting than the sea serpent. I'd like to learn more about the fellow. Kavangh sounds like an oddity, but I'm on his side in his publishing duel with the library. As far as kings and queens go, I don't think anyone improved upon George III and Queen Charlotte, until the latest few generations of our Royal Family. And killer whales wearing dead salmon hats may just be due to those being the only articles of clothes whales can actually put on and wear; has any scientist considered that?
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