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This week's Link Dump is hosted by the immortal Puss in Boots!
What the hell happened to the "Lost Colony?" (Note: I read about this "new theory" many years ago, and thought it was a pretty obvious answer.)
What the hell is Oumuamua?
The 25-year Carnegie Library heist.
The mystery of barefoot Carrie Whitehouse.
How an outlaw became a national hero.
An archaeological martyr.
A 14,000 year-old puppy's last meal.
Reconstructing the faces of Roman Emperors.
A look at Queen Victoria's journals.
How rats did historians a favor.
American aviation's first casualty.
The Atlantis of Japan.
How Walter Crane's illustrations helped children learn to read.
Harlem's most famous hoarders.
When England first got tobacco.
The abuse of mourning.
The man who swam the Mississippi River.
Farewell to the mariner who sailed like the ancients.
The world's largest cemetery.
Is the CIA behind alien abductions?
A brief history of the world's worst haircut.
Law enforcement in medieval England.
19th century soda fountains.
What if we lived to be a million years old? I already feel like that most mornings before I have coffee.
And, on the other hand, what if we all just dropped dead?
The Japanese have algae as pets.
The world's oldest operating railway.
A UFO incident which turned fatal.
The real Bigfoot.
The first science fiction novel.
How not to poison your husband.
The phenomenon of pareidolia.
More on the theory that "Dracula" was inspired by a cholera epidemic.
The development of a 19th century trade route.
A riotous Christmas in the workhouse.
A 200,000 year old bed. Complete with bug repellent!
A silent film which included actual deaths. (Out of curiosity, I looked up some of the ads for the film. Naturally, they played up the tragedy, and, naturally, the movie was a big hit.)
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The Emperor of San Francisco.
How a hat almost lost a king his country.
How 14th century Florence handled plague.
An execution that also killed the hangman.
Some cases of getting lost in the wilderness.
The time it rained cats in Long Island.
The health benefits of honey.
The wives of King John.
A look at Victorian afternoon tea.
The world's best backward speller.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a 16th century witchcraft case. In the meantime, here's this remarkable little video from 1902 Germany.
I am a descendantof John and Isabelle d’Angoulême through Elizabeth, daughter of Edward I.
ReplyDeleteWay cool account.
please don't publish earlier mistaken comments.
I too have long thought the 'mystery' of Roanoke wasn't much of a mystery, and, I suspect, among historians it has not been much of a mystery, either. But if it were a mystery, it would be a neat one, so popular legend keeps it going - and probably will, even now.
ReplyDeleteI love Walter Crane's illustrations, and Kate Greenaway's. I had not heard of Randolph Caldecott, but can see that his pictures and style fall in the same category as the other two. They are almost timeless in their look; they could be pictures of an unreal time, between different ages, not quite this era, not quite that.