Friday, August 13, 2021

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


This week's Link Dump is sponsored by the Strange Company Cycling Club!


Some good news for an English osprey colony.

Benedictine monks have returned to Solignac Abbey after a 230-year absence.

Evidence of the most powerful asteroid strike witnessed by humans.

Dogfighting in WWII.

A well-traveled woolly mammoth.

The "Glorious Twelfth."

People are still looking for D.B. Cooper.

The tragedy of the British Pet Massacre.

The King, the Queen, the mistress, and the dead ex-Emperor.  

Some men would rather die than deal with their mother-in-law.

Archaeologists believe they've found the Trojan Horse.  Bits of it, anyway.

A unique bronze object from Roman Britain.

America's first female industrialist.

The double life of William Brodie.

The early female scientists who mapped space.

The Great Nottingham Cheese Riot.

Abraham Lincoln, true crime author.

Mrs. Wharton, the Baltimore Borgia.

An unsolved double murder.

Ghosts run up a heck of an electric bill.

A meeting with Eugene Sue.

A particularly strange alien abduction case.

Gustave Dore illustrates London's East End.

The best preserved Ice Age animals ever found.

I love it when Science morphs into Captain Obvious.

The return of a scary medieval drink.

The study of geomythology.

Doesn't everyone sleep standing on their head?

Rasputin goes Hollywood, and it doesn't end very well.

Historians and their cats.

Long Island Sound's Great Sea Lion Escape.

Alien abduction and an insurance scam.

A Pompeii fast food joint is back in business.

The life of a scholar/sculler.

An island suddenly appears.  And then disappears.

The ancient flood which may have set off an ice age.

How the railway changed the British seaside.

How a genius was fooled by an archaeological hoax.

The grave of a Bronze Age "village elder."

A tribute to the picture frame.

How to move an ancient Egyptian boat.

A phantom who wears a gas mask.

A notorious 20th century exorcism.

In pursuit of a treasure ship.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at the puzzling death of a Countess.  In the meantime, here's a bit of Telemann.


2 comments:

  1. The Rutland ospreys seem not only to be doing well, but improving: their 100th fledgling flew in 2015 (nineteen years after the project began); it took only six more years to reach 200! Good for the smallest county in England.

    The killing of British pets at the start of World War Two was horrendous, but so is the public's blame of the government for panicking them. When people flee headlong over a cliff they know is there in order to escape a fire, it's not the fire's fault.

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  2. Oh, and your cycling club looks a little devil-may-care (because the club doesn't!)

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