"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, February 4, 2022

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

Just be warned.  The Strange Company HQ staff is in a very bad mood.



Sergeant Nick, police dog mascot.

Finding the world's deepest shipwreck.

Do not read this if you ever want to eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese again.

Florida Man has a longer history than you thought.

The world's oldest undeciphered writing.

The wreck of HMS Endeavour may have been found.

One very colorful woman.

The ancient shipwreck which vindicated Herodotus.

Golf just may be older than we thought.

The Italian poet and the unsolved murder.

A look at the Gilded Age.

The mystery of the 1,400 year old decapitated horse.

How the Red Army was defeated by a polka song.

A missionary in Madras.

How London mourned Queen Victoria.

The Prince of Wales visited India in 1921, and everyone wound up regretting it.

Canada Bill, king of the con.

The strange case of the Wollaton Gnomes.

The 1918 pandemic's influence on movie theaters.

Othello in Istanbul, 1866.

A child-killer in Fort Lauderdale.

A record-setting female motorist.

A very weird, very old house in England.

A murderous hired hand.

Somewhere along the line we lost a billion years.  

Was "Drunken Lizzie" murdered by Jack the Ripper?

A mysterious "ghost plane."

A notorious railway murder.

James Dean, plagiarist.

A 12th century description of "ball lightning."

Stray cats save a restaurant.

A look at two Regency-era courtesans.

When dinosaurs had a really bad June.

The claim that octopuses are actually space aliens.

Two sisters-in-law from Hell.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at the strange murder of a teenage girl.  In the meantime, let's take a tour of ancient Rome!


2 comments:

  1. The Winter War interests me; how a little country like Finland hammered the Russians so badly that the latter could only defeat it, not conquer it. I watched a Finnish movie about it, called simply "The Winter War"; very good. The article about the Finnish polka was very interesting; for every mouse, there's a mousetrap.

    The world's deepest shipwreck is actually a rather eerie story.

    And of course I liked the cats in the train-themed restaurant. Good for them.

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  2. That Kraft story is good but its blog is... scary.

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