"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, October 9, 2020

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


This week's Link Dump features entertainment by the Strange Company Choir!



What the hell was the "Wow!" signal?

What the hell is the Yonaguni Monument?

A notorious mid-air collision.

Tourists visit Rotterdam and are generally not impressed.

The theory of serial universes.

Victorians and magic mushrooms.


John Evelyn catches a cold.

When medical students turn to body snatching.

Madame Restell, the wickedest woman in New York.

The final segment about George Bridgetower, violin prodigy.

The English law of forfeiture in 19th century India.

The newly-discovered grave of an Anglo-Saxon warlord.

The strange story of the surgeon and the smugglers.

The life and lore of Queen Boudica.

A Hungarian poisoning gang.

How chloroform caught a murderer.

300,000 years ago, humans were using fire to forge tools.

The story of the original Siamese twins.

Victorian London's most popular ghost.


A "slippery quean" has a lucky escape.

A 2,000 year old vitrified brain.

The first 20 years of Plymouth Colony.


When writers of fiction really bring their characters to life.

The man who helped start a notorious (and quite deadly) feud.

This week in Russian Weird looks at ancient skull cultists.  And a magical cat for sale.


A historically significant prehistoric massacre.


A brief history of polymaths.

A brief history of the James/Younger gang.

New Jersey's most cursed road.

A 1,200 year old temple has been discovered in India.

Agnes Sorel, the first official French royal mistress.

How a lost boy became the "hero of the fells."

An eyewitness account to a guillotine execution.

Renaissance Europe sure loved merpeople.

When you get mixed up with both Nazis and Communists, things are almost guaranteed not to end well.

A Versailles in a rainforest.



A babysitter's dreadful murder.

A 250,000 year old Denisovan tooth.


The Fortean side of Tenerife.

A review of a new book about the Vikings.

An unusual time-slip story.

Adultery, murder, and a Cuban con artist.

And we come to the end of our week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a mysterious death and a possible miscarriage of justice.  In the meantime, here's some early American music.


2 comments:

  1. I'm pleased that Anne Greene was able to live a few years yet after her hanging, and to do so a free woman. Too many of those miscarriages of justice from the old days stay miscarriages of justice.

    And Doorkins Mgnificat...

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  2. Thanks for linking to my Anne Greene post,Undine. BW Kit.

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