Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

Although there's nearly a week to go, the Strange Company staff is already preparing for Thanksgiving.

Who the hell was the "Man of Etna?"

The haunted houses of Richland County.

The elephant who might become a person.

The mathematician and the Martians. 

Popular dog names in the Regency era.

How old plays are helping to revive a nearly-lost language.

Housewives in the House of Commons.

Joe Fife, a ship's cat who, sadly, possibly should have stayed AWOL.

If they ever do make a biopic about Lady Caroline Blackwood, it's going to be a damned depressing one.

The truth about the "Hobo Code."

The cemetery with an ax-waving ghost.

So you clean out a freezer, and find a couple of vials of smallpox.  I hate it when that happens.

An 1,100 year old mummy with really stylish boots.

One really overdue library book.

A drunk old warrior. 

A UFO and a mysterious copper plate.

How birds fake their own death.

Dr. Verity, a "valuable creature."

Archaeology and the Old Testament.

The sort of thing that happened when you supported German cathedrals during WWII.

Why you should never point at a rainbow.

A "remarkable career of crime."

The Russian Royal family and the Angel of Death.

A 1934 ghost hunt.

A look at the phrase, "I'm by way of being..."

A look at "The Anatomy of Melancholy."

A look at Hell Banquets.

A young man's puzzling disappearance.

A terrorist goes after members of the CIA; gets executed.

The career of the "French Mozart."

They may have found a new ancient species in Utah.

A fatal glass of beer.

An Auschwitz love affair.

That wraps things up for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll learn why some loves should not last beyond the grave.  In the meantime, let's bring on the heebie jeebies!