The host for this week's Link Dump was, according to the description for this series of 1940 photos, "Australia's Most Remarkable Cat." Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find out any more about this feline, but let us all pause and savor his/her undoubtedly impressive way with a bottle.
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| Via Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd |
Watch out for those haunted trains!
What the hell is the Box of Crazy?
The days when, instead of going to Disneyland, you took the kids to the morgue.
The days when Nancy Drew was banned.
The controversy over some Puerto Rican stones.
A prostitute who really knew her way around a mugshot.
Mammoths were around for a lot longer than you might think.
The link between feminism and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
The death of a conspiracy theorist spawns... conspiracy theories.
The era of home theatricals.
Two bad brothers.
The colorful life of a figure skating pioneer.
Crystal chandeliers and the Shah of Persia.
Mysterious Latvian stones.
The world of Early Modern murder mysteries.
The Great Tango Craze.
The last witch to be executed in Austria.
Modern technology reveals ancient writings.
A Nazi sympathizer writes about the black arts.
The Lincolnshire vicar who really didn't think much of his flock.
Historians can't stop arguing about whether or not James Buchanan was gay.
A particularly gruesome unsolved occult murder.
Gambling with death. Literally.
Grand Guignol a go-go, and other theatrical links.
Let's talk Sardinian throat singing.
A mysterious Saudi Arabian civilization.
A Bronze Age New York in Israel.
The poltergeist's pin cushion.
Why Catherine was the Great.
Joseph Dunninger and the spiritualist.
When you see those magic words, "boy with two skulls," you know you're looking at a Thomas Morris post.
Chaucer and alchemy.
The truth behind a startling footnote.
How the West got Chinese lilies.
A child-killing servant.
A look at Poe's final home.
A look at underwater unidentified objects.
A look at carrier pigeon blackmail.
Myths about medieval building.
Cries of London, 1913.
The banshee and the rector.
The remarkable dog of Fish Street Hill.
If you like chewing gum, thank an exiled Mexican General.
The folklore of Artificial Intelligence.
A gravestone for an arm.
Jane Austen's "fairy tale" brother.
Anyone remember the post I did about a haunted house winding up as the center of a lawsuit? Well, here's your big chance to own it.
From bigamy to murder.
The ghosts of the Blue Mountains.
The life of Judith of Flanders.
The life of Rutherford Hayes.
More evidence that ancient humans got around much more than we think.
The end of the Richard Burgess gang.
Cats as...sanitary engineers.
The case of the Shadwell Forgeries.
That is all for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll talk gardening poltergeists. In the meantime, here's another autumn-themed song.
I find the Nabataeans a fascinating subject. They were clearly an advanced culture - even if much of it was borrowed from Rome, Greece or Persia. But what artistry. Imagine being the first non-local to come across that red stone tomb, in the first picture...
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