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This week's Link Dump is off to the races!
An early 15th century royal wedding.
Mount Everest just isn't good enough for some people.
It turns out that the "Cats" movie did one good thing.
Oliver, the humanzee.
Meet Mr. Goxx, your new financial advisor.
The cake that finds a spouse for you.
Has the Zodiac Killer been identified?
In search of a forgotten human history.
The life of a British gunner in the Bombay Army.
A medieval unsolved murder.
If you want to move to a haunted city, here's a list for you.
A weird erupting comet.
The ghost fighter of Pearl Harbor.
How to make the warmest tent on Earth.
Contemporary newspaper accounts of the Great Chicago Fire.
Patsey, State Street Fire Cat.
Some archaeologists believe they have found Mount Sinai.
The UK Prime Minister who was--according to some rumors--a Communist spy.
If you use a railway car to ship corpses, don't be surprised if it winds up being haunted.
Thanks to astronomy, we know the date--and time--that Mary Shelley came up with the idea for "Frankenstein."
The possibility that we're not this planet's first advanced civilization.
For this week in Russian Weird, some guy wants to trade a Soviet orbiter for a skull.
A brief history of chocolate.
A female 18th century sexton.
The man who found himself. Literally.
A match-up between two U.S. military planes.
"Seadromes," one of those inventions which never caught on.
A poltergeist in Sauchie, Scotland.
A newly-discovered Siberian geoglyph.
What we do--and don't--know about our sense of smell.
Until I read this post, I had no idea that the question of whether you should put milk in your tea first or last has been controversial for decades.
The real story of "Anna and the King."
Why 19th century ghost hunting could be dangerous for the ghost.
Harry Gardiner, Human Fly.
Adelaide O'Keeffe, "rationalistic educator."
Some remarkable carvings made 11,000 years ago.
The hazards of picking your own mushrooms.
The, uh, joys of early 20th century newspaper humor.
The history of Vegemite.
Russian Empresses and their cross-dressing balls.
A "broad-shouldered bully" goes to the gallows.
An 1811 disaster in the North Sea.
A golden sun bowl is the "discovery of a lifetime."
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll learn why you never should mess with a home owned by fairies. In the meantime, here's some Telemann:
The 'Wilson Plot' seems to be fed mainly by exaggeration (Wright's "Sycatcher" - the author himself admitted to exaggerating claims and paranoia (Golitsyn and Angleton, the latter being believed by many to have seen spies everywhere).
ReplyDeleteThe man who searched for, and found, himself was funny, though not for Mutlu. I can understand why he 'broke out in a cold sweat' when he realised who was missing. He must've thought he was in awful trouble. But it reminded me of an incident in the career of the British Secret Service operator, Bailey, who posed as a Chekist and ended up searching for the British spy Bailey...
And Vegemite! Now I know why the Australian group Men at Work mentioned it in one of their songs. (For years, I had no idea what words they were singing in that line...)
ReplyDeleteI remember that song! I think it was the first time I'd ever heard of Vegemite...
DeleteThe closest interpretation I came up with before learning about Vegemite was 'gave me a bite of my sandwich', which, since the verse was about a man 'six foot four and full of muscle' made sense to me: he had grabbed the singer's sandwich and was generous enough to give him one bite of it. The way the mind works...
DeleteWhen I was a kid, I interpreted "Call me the tumbling dice" as Mick Jagger singing "Covered in chocolate ice."
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