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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is here! And we're not clowning around!
Well, maybe some of us are.
New York City's first professional dog walker.
The life of Margaret of Brabant, Countess of Flanders.
A 17th century man of parts.
The link between horse racing and eugenics. This article reminds me of something one of the old boys at Santa Anita once said to me. He had been an exercise rider for Citation--the greatest racehorse who ever lived, in his opinion. He mentioned that he had also ridden Citation's full brother, Unbelievable. "What sort of horse was Unbelievable?" I asked. "He wasn't worth two dead flies!" Jack growled.
Brazil's first female war hero.
The man who invented Creepy Clowns. (Quick question: Are there any clowns who aren't creepy?)
The legend of "Owd Parr."
The time when Paris was forced to eat zoo animals.
It appears that the Brontes drank graveyard water. Which would explain a lot about their novels.
An assortment of historical ciphers.
Body-snatching isn't exactly the safest profession.
Murder and a ghostly axeman.
Eerie vintage photos of the Thames.
The world's loneliest post office.
The legends around a 600 year old glass.
People have spent forever trying to live forever.
The Vatican's Garden of Eden.
The history behind a portrait by George Romney.
The mysterious murder of Benjamin Nathan.
How two Tudor enemies wound up having a face-off on New York's Fifth Avenue.
How "It's a Small World" became so damn ubiquitous.
The momentous events of April 1945.
A black Gilded Age celebrity.
An Isle of Man memorial of a shipwreck.
A debunking of death omens. Spoilsport.
A destitute man stranded in 1875 London.
The mystery of "crisis apparitions."
Our ancient ancestors and their complicated sex lives.
The "Wicked Bible."
Meet The Bridge You Will Never See Me Even Go Near.
How "clotheshorse" came to mean "chic."
A photo of 1850s Manhattan.
A bit of astronomer humor.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll talk crop circles. In the meantime, here's a folk singer I recently discovered.
The article on Grimaldi was both sad and disturbing, while the images of the Thames, in the fog and nearly devoid of people were ghostly. I liked that the India Office was considerate enough to help a destitute man stuck in London; I wonder how bureaucracy would treat him now. And the Luck of Edenhall reminded me of the Luck of Muncaster, which is a bowl, with a similar legend tying it to family fortunes. One time it was tossed out a window (I forget why), and the owner was too scared to go and look at what might have been a broken bowl. But it was later, much later, found intact. Whew.
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