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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is enough to send the Strange Company staff into a great deal of merriment.
Why the hell do giraffes have such long necks?
Meet Henry, the cat with an unbeatable bedside manner.
The physicists who sat around for 14 years watching a clock tick.
How to pack for 18th century traveling.
Librarians get asked some of the damnedest things.
Neptune, the neglected planet.
The outlaw nuns of Bruges.
Battle strategies from the Old Testament.
Why you really, really, don't want to have toilet trouble on a submarine.
The discovery of a shipwrecked 17th century warship.
Margaret Thatcher's "secret phone."
The mystery of the lost wonder plant.
Accounts of indirect poisonings.
The first Juneteenth celebration.
The curse of Cleopatra's Needle.
An ancient grave marker that comes complete with a curse.
The last D-Day ration pack.
A visit to an animatronic model workshop.
The Amarillo Zoo had a nighttime visitor, and people have questions.
Submarine heroics during WWI. Thankfully, no toilets were involved.
The short life of "Harlem's Coney Island."
A famed Colombian rescue mission.
The Birmingham, England lock-up.
A boy of the Shoeblack Society.
Two WWI tragedies at sea.
East Germany's "Red Woodstock."
Victorian urban legends were stuffed full of incognito aristocrats.
How crossword puzzles nearly derailed D-Day.
This may be the oldest tree in the world.
Some trade cards of 18th century book sellers.
How cowards came to be called "chicken."
The con artist who sold the Eiffel Tower.
A notorious French serial killer.
Two failed spies.
A golden life of Christ.
A family's murder plot.
Treasure hunting in medieval England.
The dying art of making Eastern Himalayan cheese.
The pioneering Doctors Blackwell.
The lives of Indian street dogs.
The 18th century "London Monster."
Murder on Thirtieth Street.
An ancient woman was buried on a "mermaid bed."
How to eat like a 19th century gold miner. Assuming, of course, that you want to.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one of 19th century Russia's most scandalous murder mysteries. This one really is a doozy. In the meantime, here's a Gordon Lightfoot cover.
Of course cats are good therapy animals; they should be allowed in all hospitals. The article on the Colombian rescue-mission was very interesting. As in all such deceptions, it is, as the article pointed out, the details that make everything seem authentic. The Colombians worked on the details in the same way the British did with Operation Mincemeat - and many other schemes with similar goals.
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