Welcome to the latest Link Dump!
Our host for this Friday's festivities is the one-and-only BABY.
Watch out for the Gown Man!
Two violent and puzzling deaths.
You know, "radioactive anomaly" are two words you'd rather not see together.
Ancient diet tips.
A widower's mourning gets...complicated.
The saloon cat and Theodore Roosevelt.
The CIA's psychic army.
There's a lot of ancient writing out there that has never been deciphered.
The Cat Lady of Spitalfields.
The queen who was the "King of Kings."
Two very different vessels collide at sea.
The Victorian "cat's meat men."
That time when Cleveland had a spot of bother with giant balloons.
How to eat like an ancient Egyptian.
A tribute to a very good dog.
D-Day's first American cemetery.
A Grand Duke's love at first sight.
If you've been longing to know what Egyptian mummies smell like, read on.
When "turtle feasts" were all the rage.
Some mysterious caves in the Amazon.
A scientist's mysterious death.
A German castle in Namibia.
A brief history of the Port of London.
The unmarked grave of a Revolutionary War spy.
The mysterious "Levantine Stonehenge."
A royal tomb has been discovered in Egypt.
The papers of an Indian civil servant.
Edward V's almost-parliament.
Remembering the Kentucky Meat Shower.
A beautiful little village where there are more cats than people. I'm sold.
A hotel haunted by a "lady in blue."
Mourning jewelry that's "somber and sensible."
A "prodigal son" story that did not have a happy ending.
A policeman's murder of a teenage girl.
That's a wrap for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the meeting between Edgar Allan Poe and a notorious murderer. In the meantime, here's a glorious blast from the pop music past.
There was a cats' meat man as a character in the Dr Doolittle stories, I remember. When I was young, I didn't know what a cats' meat man did, though I guessed from the title. The article on food in ancient Egypt is interesting. I am as much into social history as any other kind. And on that subject, inspired by the German 'castle' in Namibia, I think an article for Strange Company might be made of Stewart Gore-Brown, the Englishman who built a mansion and successful farm in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); Gore-Brown was a great friend to Zambia and its people, and when he died, he was given a state funeral. And the village in Corfu? It's lovely, but I'd spend all my time trapping and fixing the cats...
ReplyDeleteI've briefly run into Stewart Gore-Browne's name before, although I didn't know much about him. His brother Robert wrote an interesting biography about one of my favorite historical figures, the 4th Earl of Bothwell.
DeleteI think there is a book about him and his house - "The Africa House" by Christina Lamb. The house has been renovated, I think, and is being running as a guest house by Gore-Browne's grandchildren, who still live on the estate.
DeleteThanks for telling me. I'll see if I can find a copy.
DeleteJust keep pouring on the cat content, please!
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