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This week’s Link Dump is sponsored by some lucky black cats!
Sweden's ghost train.
Nottingham's cheese riot.
A Romanov saves a drowned man.
The unsolved murder of an unidentified mother and children.
Wales' version of the Blarney Stone.
More on that unscrupulous Norfolk artist.
The Great Wall of China wasn't always that great.
The very weird death (and life) of Jeffrey Lash.
A theory about why some people are allergic to penicillin.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about Napoleon's hair.
The birth of the smallpox vaccine.
Puerto Rico's weirdest mountain.
Verona's Juliet Club.
The sexton of Spring Grove.
Archaeology and an ancient Pirate King.
A peep inside an asteroid.
In which the Prince Regent desecrates corpses.
The Wild West folklore surrounding a murdered prostitute.
Old newspaper stories about hidden treasure.
Spain really needs to give up art restoration.
Ballads of cross-dressing highwaywomen.
A casualty of the Haitian Revolution.
One really crazy murder case.
How California came to be named after a griffin-riding warrior queen.
A look at "The Canterbury Tales."
In which Prince Rudolph just can't stay dead.
A Manhattan literary cat.
Gli of the Hagia Sophia, RIP.
Marty of the Mount Washington Observatory, RIP.
The ancient Lady of Bietikow.
What it took for Victorian children to get sent to reform school.
Mortsafes and the Anatomy Act.
How a telephone caught a murderer.
Teddy Roosevelt writes a poetry review.
The ghosts of Hinsdale House.
Thomas Cream, one of the odder serial killers.
A forgotten Victorian best-seller.
The astrological guide to Dumb Things People Do In Horror Movies.
A fatal pub brawl.
The burial of an ancient child.
Druids to the rescue!
That's it for this week. See you on Monday, when we'll look at one of true crime's weirdest serial killers. In the meantime, here's Gillian Welch. I love this one.
Its a sad week for cats.
ReplyDeleteThat Jeffrey Lash was one weird dude. It's true that 1,200 firearms probably wouldn't raise much of an eyebrow in parts of the U.S., but he managed to persuade numerous people to believe what he told them...
ReplyDeleteAnd on conspiracy theories, the idea that Crown Prince Rudoplh wasn't buried as he was supposed to have been because his coffin was so small strikes me as the essence of conspiracy theory illogic. Wouldn't those responsible for concocting the 'false death' have buried him in a coffin fit for him, instead of deliberately inviting speculation? But maybe that's me...