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The strange death of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
When making fudge was a symbol of defiance.
A "sleeping preacher."
The life and death of "Our Aeroplane Girl."
Victorian remedies for hay fever.
The execution of the Earl of Argyll.
The mystery of the screaming house.
The Sherlock Holmes scholar whose death was...a Sherlock Holmes mystery.
After 900 years, they've found Emma of Normandy.
Before there was Uncle Sam, there was Brother Jonathan.
The hazards of bankrolling an assassination attempt.
The 19th century didn't think much of novel reading.
The Imperial Russian Finland Guard Regiment in exile once had their own magazine. Thus proving there really is something for everybody.
A famed dog and cat circus.
That time a potbellied pig terrorized Ireland.
Beverly Hills is cursed. Yes, surprise, surprise.
The Spanish "Romeo and Juliet."
How a cursed statue destroyed a Welsh church.
A 19th century theater censor.
A very undiplomatic diplomat.
The American writer who is still revered in Japan.
Science solves a murder mystery. Albeit some 33,000 years too late.
The romantic tale of Mermanjan.
The island of vanishing birds.
Life-saving brandy.
The lavender fields of Surrey.
The true story behind Bob Dylan's "Hattie Carroll."
Remnants of a mysterious ancient empire in Iraq.
Contemporary newspaper reports of the battle of Gettysburg.
The young woman who helped send astronauts to the moon.
The 13th century Prisoner of Dolbadarn.
Melancholy and Romanticism.
The tragic saga of Honest Carrie Gilmore.
The Fourth of July "safe and sane" movement.
The legend of a haunted grave.
The plan to assassinate James Garfield.
How to cook like an ancient Mesopotamian.
The struggle to produce a legitimate George III grandchild.
Historians are still fascinated by Mary Toft, mother of rabbits.
Britain's most haunted house.
Chatham Royal Dockyard.
The sad case of Eliza Wilmot.
A collection of mysterious ciphers.
A brief history of a spa town.
A brief history of Elizabethan witch trials.
A 16th century weapon of mass destruction.
The power of imagination.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a family's mysterious poisoning. In the meantime, here's America.
I haven't heard of Lafcadio Hearn in a long time. I suppose that is a sign of his obscurity. It's interesting, and sad, how time favours some authors and dismisses others. Talent may or may not have anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteFascinating news about the Mitanni palace, eh? There must be more yet to be learned as there is already learned...