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This week's Link Dump is hosted by the Strange Company Spring Gardening Club!
Watch out for the Cornish Owlman!
Dueling with Agnes Hotot and Skulking Dudley.
Hitchhiking is dangerous. Even if you're a robot.
A Civil War soldier writes home.
The 19th century artist John Church Dempsey.
The life of the Countess Dowager of Carlisle.
Creepy creatures pay flying visits.
The grave of the Lonely Soldier.
The florist and the flower ban.
The coffeehouse and the mystery of the missing mother.
The first English airplane looked remarkably like a chicken coop.
The theory that our planet is one big prison. Certainly feels that way right now, doesn't it?
The killer of Viennese housemaids.
The last teenage girl hanged in Britain.
The lively history of London's Eaton Square.
Mozart and his frequently potty-mouthed letters.
Photos of mid-19th century Glasgow.
The UFOs of Nevada.
Holy anorexics: starving yourself for God.
The monsters of ancient castles.
A bored Italian banshee.
The Victorian love affair with American rebels.
Finding love in the archives.
A real Pirate King.
A brief history of Eddystone Lighthouse.
Modern-day "Little People."
The mysterious man known as the "Duke's Devil."
Thomas Jefferson still has a garden.
The famed beauty of Madame Recamier.
Go to Detroit, and you can dine in ancient Mesopotamia.
Photos capturing the dark side of mid-20th century New York.
Captain Beauclerk meets a prehistoric horse.
The mystery of the ancient burned cities.
The excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
A South American frog...in Antarctica.
The Black Death was a speedy sucker.
The homicidal congressman.
How to defraud the Devil.
The theory linking two famous murderers to a famous Fortean mystery.
Why was the cast of the movie "Titanic" poisoned? Theory: someone read the script.
Criminalizing gypsies.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a family tragedy associated with the "Mayflower." In the meantime, Haydn has a surprise for you!
teh phrase "bad vybes" use in 1607(duke's devil story)? I am skpetical of this detail.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of the Cucuteni-Trypillians; very interesting. And the first English aeroplane to take flight was an ingenious invention; too complicated, but ingenious.
ReplyDeleteAnd so was Haydn: complicated, but simple to enjoy; one of my favourites.
We both liked the movie "The Duellists", so I thought it might be a fitting subject for a post in Strange Company. The real duel appears to have been more complicated. It is detailed (perhaps in too much detail for some not to have been apocryphal) in a book called "The Duel" by Robert Baldick. I have a copy and have found an electronic copy on archive.org, if you'd like to read it. The rendering by Conrad and the movie is much more dramatic, but this version retains great interest for me. The subject in question starts on page 165.
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Thank you! I was meaning to see what I could find about the real story.
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