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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to the first Link Dump of Spring 2022!
To celebrate, let's all have tea in the Strange Company HQ garden.
Where the hell is Christopher Columbus?
Why we all have gotten "The Road Not Taken" wrong.
It turns out that we goofed about the name of "Machu Picchu," too.
A planned trip to the Moon...in the 17th century.
A suicide in Coalbrookdale.
The busy--and certainly unusual--life of Rose Levere.
Tommy James, the Mafia, and "the nastiest person in show business." This story is quite the wild ride.
Madame Cama, Indian political activist.
The legendary allure of Point d’Alençon lace.
Scottish witches are being pardoned. Albeit a bit late in the game.
The 1922 Wilmcote railway accident.
The Earl who was a particularly eccentric Ufologist.
Native Americans and "little beings."
The odd stories behind some famous artworks.
The other houses of Downing Street.
Some modern-day body-snatchers.
Well, this is one way to cope with burglars.
In search of consolation.
A case where sleepwalking was used as a murder defense.
That dinosaur-destroying asteroid? It was even worse than we thought.
The bad boy and the funeral.
England's "last alchemist."
A strange 17th century sexual predator.
The trial of the "Carrick Witch."
The women of the Betty Crocker test kitchens.
A 3D recreation of a Stone Age woman.
Some charts that put time in perspective.
The myth of Agent 355.
A mountain in China is laying stone eggs.
In which the Vanderbilts throw a heck of a party.
How "well-heeled" came to mean "rich."
The disappearance of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739.
A famous early American murder case.
How to eat like Ernest Hemingway.
Tige, cat mascot of the NYPD.
The lives of two children of John of Gaunt.
A "love hoax" which did not turn out well. They seldom do.
The case of the stolen knighthood.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll have probably the weirdest story I've ever had on this blog. Yes, weirder than the garden hose that kept burying itself. Weirder than the cookie-loving Martians. Weirder than Puffy, Cat Hypnotist. Buckle up. In the meantime, here's some Vivaldi.
Apparently some people do kill while sleepwalking. In Canada in 1987, Kenneth Parks was found not guilty of murder when he drove 20 km to his in-law's house, killed his mother-in-law with a tire iron, nearly strangled his father-in-law, and turned himself in to the police saying he thought he might have killed two people. He was asleep at the time, apparently, and had expert opinions that he was suffering from "non-insane automatism".
ReplyDeleteThe article on Frost's poem was enlightening. He does indeed seem to be writing that he's some day going to boast of having made his future (or lost it) by claiming he had taken the road less travelled, when in fact both roads were equally travelled. The article doesn't explain, though, how the author sees one road less travelled because it is grassy, yet a few lines later says both are covered with leaves.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have always liked Princess Philippa, whose married founded 'the oldest alliance' between England and Portugal. It's nice to read that she and her husband had a happy marriage.