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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
One of our Strange Company HQ staffers wishes to announce that it's time for this week's Link Dump!
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| Photo: Edward Henry Weston |
An ancient tiara turns out to be a hoax.
How to eat like Jane Austen.
The disappearance of Jon Haynes.
The end of the "King of the Beggars."
One really expensive stamp.
Contemporary news accounts about the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
The difficulties of Early Modern childbearing.
The real "Chariots of Fire."
The tragedy at Pond Hill.
Romance blossoms in an unexpected place.
Elephants having themselves a good time.
The ghost on the golf course.
Discovering ancient DNA in mud.
P.T. Barnum and the cherry-colored cat.
They've reportedly found the tomb of Alexander the Great's mom.
Puppies are born to understand humans. Kittens, on the other hand, are born understanding us all too well.
Churchill and "Operation Unthinkable."
How the diary of Betsy Ross' husband wound up in a California garage.
The miniature world of a Benedictine monk.
An East India Company "secret and confidential agent."
What it was like to be a Neanderthal child.
It's all in our guts.
Helping the poor in Victorian England.
The life of a 19th century American publisher.
A pickled Knight Templar.
The cover-up behind the murder of Jane Stanford.
A look at the phenomenon of weird stuff falling from the sky. (More here.)
Vivaldi and psychedelic therapy.
In which Galileo and the Pope quarrel over cicadas.
Snails may have helped solve the mystery of the Cerne Abbas Giant.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a disappearance that turned into...something no one was expecting. In the meantime, here's a tune from 17th century Scotland.
correction on the pickled knight-theurl is https://www.mjwayland.com/historical-mysteries/the-templar-knights-of-danbury/
ReplyDeleteHuh. Yeah, I see the original link is now a 404.
DeleteThank you, Gator!
ReplyDeleteI've always enjoyed "Chariots of Fire"; a good, accurate depiction, I believe. I think the only fictional thing about it is Nigel Havers's character, which is an amalgam of a couple of others. The picture of Liddel clearly shows his famous running stance, with his head held back.
ReplyDeleteI'd heard about Churchill's plan to fight Soviet Russia after the Second World War. It would have been as noble a cause as fighting the Nazis, but never would have worked. Just arming the Germans again would have been disastrous in every possible way. Even those countries newly under Soviet rule would have fought for the Russians against any alliance that included the Germans.