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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
The Strange Company HQ staffers are already throwing their Christmas parties.
A seemingly motiveless family murder.
Did this man figure out where Flight 370 crashed?
A British Library collection of anatomical sketches.
The socialite who was a murderer and blackmailer on the side.
Why India has jewelry made of sugar.
The mysteries surrounding the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Shopping in the early 19th century.
The Straw Hat Riot.
You can hardly walk through Europe without stumbling on the bones of St. Nicholas.
Queen Charlotte had the first English Christmas tree.
How Pearl Harbor forced a plane to make a really long detour.
Ancient Egyptian beer. Which, frankly, doesn't sound much to my liking.
A real-life Cinderella story.
Some very old Ethiopian monoliths.
Some old Christmas traditions you might want to ignore.
The cutthroat world of...meat judging?
December 1641 was a messy month in the English Parliament.
The library of a 17th century playwright.
Christmas shopping at the undertaker's.
In defense of monsters.
Pearl Harbor's most successful rescue mission.
Daily life for Victorian shop girls.
The mysterious Book of Soyga.
The notorious Ratcliffe Highway Murders.
The last of the Covent Garden bawds.
Some odd news items from 1912.
Slumber party folklore.
Horse stories from old New York.
The puzzling death of Ethel White.
This week in Russian Weird looks at zombie fires by the Pole of Cold.
The weird side of Johnny Cash.
Hitler and Pearl Harbor.
The Crimean War's North Pacific theater.
The BS Historian wishes that you would stop trying to find medical reasons for vampires.
The Vikings probably had some particularly awful methods of torturing people.
The men who returned home so they could be executed.
This year's oddest book titles.
George Cruikshank's Christmas illustrations.
Folklore's "wood-wives."
A case of manslaughter.
The Moon has a Mystery Cube.
The origin of the phrase "a friend of Dorothy."
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll visit a particularly lively neighborhood in Wales. With a cameo appearance by Satan! In the meantime, let's get medieval:
Oddest book title ever: "Walter the Farting Dog-Trouble at the Yard Sale."
ReplyDeleteVery interesting about the Allied attack on Petropavlovsk in the Crimean War. I thought I was fairly well-versed in that conflict.
ReplyDeleteI want to thank you for your thoughtful words about Tucker. I know you've been following his adventures - and those of my other beasts - for a long time. It's hard losing him but easier with such kindness as yours.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad that you've lost so many cats recently. My thoughts go out for the rest of your household to stay well for a *very* long time.
DeleteKiller dentures? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattery_Teeth_(short_story)
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