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Why the hell are all these dentists dying?
I've wondered about this myself: Why the hell are gay men called "fairies?"
What the hell became of Queen Zenobia?
What the hell became of USS Cyclops?
Another of those evergreen questions: What the hell happened at Dyatlov Pass?
Who the hell did Alfred Arthur Rouse murder?
Watch out for those blue flame ghosts!
Watch out for those Demon Cats!
Eighteenth-century gambling at White's.
You wouldn't want to go to Alfred Hitchcock's dinner parties. But you probably already knew that.
You wouldn't want to go to a 17th century sailor's dinner party. You probably already knew that, too.
A Buddhist monk may have set himself on fire in ancient Greece. Yeah, history is weird.
An 18th century nobleman goes on trial for rape. Surprise, surprise, he skated.
An interesting theory about ghosts.
The New Orleans riot of 1817.
A brief history of aftershave.
The brutal murder of a mysterious woman.
Some anecdotes from the court of Napoleon.
Speaking of Napoleon, the man himself gives us English As She Is Spoke.
The lynching of Cattle Kate.
Hey, let's listen to rats playing a theremin!
A Roman mermaid.
Necromancy turns out to be a pretty expensive hobby.
Eesh. It seems that a famed archaeologist was nothing but a scam artist.
Victorian advice about perfume.
The world's worst roommate.
Victorian "penny beds."
Encounters with unicorns.
Hieronyma and the incubus.
Yet another Roman Emperor comes to a nasty end.
A useful guidebook for merchants and smugglers.
Hate tofu? Blame Ben Franklin.
The monster of Drumate Lake.
The tale of the bullock and the gold ring.
Abraham Lincoln in Greenwich Village.
The legend of Vortigern.
So, let's talk about George Washington's bedpan.
A deadly duel in the bedroom.
Astronauts return to earth with altered DNA.
A fairy who likes cake.
And finally...um, I'll just leave this one here.
That's all for this week! Join me on Monday, when I'll present a man and his homemade family. In the meantime, here's some Praetorius:
I've always thought Zenobia rather foolish. She had a perfectly good kingdom, prosperous, on the trade routes, befriended by Rome, the most powerful country in that part of the world. You don't antagonise a country like that and expect to get away with it. These days, yes, but not then.
ReplyDeleteAnd Elagabalus I never liked. Except for Aurelian, the whole third century series of Roman emperors leaves me cold.