"...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 25, 2022

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

It is time for this week's Link Dump!



The strange case of the "ghost gunshot."

Slovenia's supernatural sheep.

An 18th century pop star.

There's something weird in our planet's core.

Shorter version: In the 14th century, you had to be very careful what you called someone.

This week in Russian Weird looks at a Soviet-era underground city.  And a strange ancient Siberian culture.

Herne the Hunter and "mischief acts."

Yes, they're still looking for MH370.

Yes, they're still looking for Troy.

Eight hundred lost children.

Was Hieronymus Bosch all about bad weather and moldy bread?

An 18th century Royal Navy sailor writes home.

The horrors of "Little Auschwitz."

A British commando raid.

German WWI aviators have a "mishap" in Mesopotamia.

The legend of Sybil Ludington's midnight ride.

Perhaps the dying really do see their lives flash before them.

Marie Antoinette's favorite painter.

Grave-diggers and "corpse-quake."

Matrimony joke of the day.

An 18th century recipe book.

Tracking down the source of King Tut's out-of-this-world dagger.

The earliest surviving map of Scotland.

The Bridgend Murder.

Testing the "infinite monkeys" theory.

The case of the Plaistow Ghost.

Two Long Island murders.

An interesting medieval brooch.

An unequal duel.

The mascots of Engine Company No. 65.

A 19th century judge and some of his more notable cases.

That's it for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at arguably history's most famous pickpocket.  In the meantime, here's some Celtic guitar.


2 comments:

  1. The underground city of Tbilisi is fascinating. I wonder if there are others like it. And the story of the 800 Russian children is awful and uplifting at the same time.

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  2. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PH18890622.2.58&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
    another corpsequale. sightin.

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