"...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, September 26, 2025

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where we're all at sea!



Watch out for those blood-sucking Vegetable Men!

Watch out for the Rabbit of Doom!

What may be the world's oldest psychiatric hospital.


In which an author uses a lot of words to say, "Snails are weird."

An Admiral's meteoric career.

The dogs of Old London.


The volcanic eruption that nearly killed off the human race.  And a lot of other things.

A brief history of string.

This week in Russian Weird looks at Siberia's strange craters.

How Europe learned to stop worrying and love the fork.

Some remarkable prison breaks.

The haunted bookshop of Cambridge.



An ancient "alien" head.

The secrets of the Boston Public Library.

The dark side of meditation.


A murder that was a family affair.

A veiled lady in Pennsylvania.

The English Parliament in the later Middle Ages.

What we have learned from a Stonehenge fingerprint.

A famous historical quote that was probably never actually said.

A Swedish woman in Tudor England.

31/Atlas now has a tail.



That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll meet one of history's weirdest prison inmates.  In the meantime, here's one heck of a "Bohemian Rhapsody" cover.

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