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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
Formal attire is not required, but is greatly encouraged.
Watch out for the Hooded Ones!
A very bad detective.
Topiary memorials to a cat. I love these.
This week in Russian Weird travels to Siberia's Whale Bone Alley.
A guide to 19th century small talk.
The world's remotest hotel.
New York City's smoggiest Thanksgiving.
A medieval alchemist's secret code.
A woman's double tragedy.
The strange death of a military policeman.
A look at the Nasca.
The Red Devil of Virginia.
The link between Jerusalem's Western Wall and Jack the Ripper.
Speaking of Jack, here are some lesser-known Ripper candidates.
When you're named "Corney Grain," you really have no choice but to become a comedian.
The academic study of Robin Hood.
A pilot's bizarre crash.
A very efficient undertaker.
Britain's war memorials.
Regency Era stagecoach travel.
Killer drinking cups and nightmare doughnuts.
A cosmonaut's fatal flight.
A medieval gold Bible.
Traditional medicine strikes again!
Da Vinci's ostrich egg globe.
Meet Doug the Potato.
The dogs of WWI.
Death by corset.
Were "werewolves" actually serial killers?
Mapping the real locations of fictional places.
A cursed tomb that isn't Tut's.
Old London at night.
Victorian matrimonial ads.
India's fireworks for Queen Victoria.
The story behind a portrait of a lady in green.
WWI's greatest sea battle.
19th century health advice for travelers.
A mysterious archaeological site in Syria.
The multiphone: the first music streaming system.
King Edward IV's first Parliament.
The history of "with a grain of salt."
The hidden world of slate mines.
A haunted cabin in Arizona.
Forgotten kingdoms in Saudi Arabia.
A wonderfully catty bookstore.
Ancient scented sorceresses.
Alfred Rouse's still-unidentified victim.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the mysterious disappearance of a globe-trotter. In the meantime, here's some early Dylan.
Another fine selecxtion. The death of the military policeman is a puzzler, and rather chilling at the seeming negligence of the U.S. Army in investigating. I'd read of Corney Grain, but thought his name was made up for the stage; who wouldn't think that? And the mapping of fictional places makes me think of a book you may like: "The Dictionary of Imaginary Places" by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi.
ReplyDeleteI have that book! It's a delightful compilation, and the illustrations are beautiful.
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