Friday, February 5, 2021

Weekend Link Dump

 


"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


This week's Link Dump is hosted by Little Tim!

Who, to be honest, looks a Little Cranky.



Where the hell is Jimmy Hoffa?

Mozart in Vienna.

This is hardly the strangest thing you see around Los Angeles these days.

The unexpected dangers of lemon seeds.  (Note: if titles like "complete dislocation of the eyeball" are not to your taste, you might want to move on to the next link.)

The remarkable life of the "Black Sparrow."

A historical rumor about one of George III's daughters.

The aristocrat's private detective.

The life of a Tudor courtier.

The life of a pyramid destroyer.


19th century beard dyes.

Poltergeist activity at Woodstock Manor House.

A 2,000 year old burial of a child and a pet dog.


The most out-of-this-world golf shot.

The invention of the ski chairlift.

The serial killer who wasn't.


Anyone up for buying Hitler's toilet seat?

You've heard of "silver-tongued devils?"  Meet a gold-tongued mummy.


The Saratoga campaign of 1777.

The outlaw who posthumously became a sideshow attraction.

A case of a stolen corpse.




A man with a metal detector makes a heck of a find.


The suicide of a Victorian governess.

The man who saved Winchester Cathedral.

The "Idle Women" of WWII.


What we've learned about the Antikythera mechanism.

A purple cloth from the era of King Solomon.



The first American GI to land in Europe during WWII.

The Harvard scientist who is convinced we've been visited by an alien spacecraft.  (More on the same topic can be found here.)

A horrific explosion in Pennsylvania.


A brief history of parkas.

A particularly weird haunting in Connecticut.

The first legal challenge to racial segregation.


A pretty little ancient Roman arch.

A look at books bound in human skin.


That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at the time London rioted over the statue of a dog.  In the meantime, here's some Sandy Denny.


1 comment:

  1. A very interesting collection, as always. I suspect the chronology in the story of the Black Sparrow is inaccurate: mention is made of the Resistance ending when the Germans invaded France. It would of course had BEGUN then. Bullard's espionage may have then started, too. Nonetheless, it is an amazing story of great adventures.

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