"...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, May 8, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

 


Welcome to the Link Dump!  Our host for this week is the very handsome mascot of HMS Barham!



The herbalist of Spitalfields.

The "Exposition Universelle" of Paris.

The King of Switzerland.

Cleopatra's mysterious death.

A shipwreck from WWI has just been discovered.

The real "Lord of the Flies" was nothing like the novel.  Thankfully.

The laughter epidemic of 1962.

Ancient Roman nanotechnology.

The life of the "American Dwarf."

Private jets and the apocalypse.

French POWs in Britain.

A disappearing cat in 1894.

The Southampton Plot of 1415.

A Victorian tale of a mother's grave.

China's Cold Food Festival.

The still-mysterious Great Pearl Robbery.

The still-mysterious Min Min Lights.

A murder and a questionable "guilty" verdict.

The madcap theory that "ghosts" are just infrasound.  Look, kids, my house is haunted, and I can assure you, it ain't infrasound.

A 19th century murder investigation.

That's it for this week!  See you next week, when we'll look at the tragic--and mysterious--end to a honeymoon.  In the meantime, here's Bob Seger:

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