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Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company HQ employees all say it's the perfect beach read!
This week in Russian Weird looks at a mysterious ruin in Siberia.
The man whose life was saved by being put in a dungeon.
The difficulty of holding state trials during a smallpox outbreak.
A new theory stating that Europe got syphilis long before reaching the New World.
Pole dancing fire cats!
A few odd vintage news stories.
What may be the oldest house in Wales.
Cider and sea exploration.
Never overcharge a Welsh witch.
Color photos of Russia in the early 20th century.
The "poster child" of the Moulin Rouge.
Some Hudson Valley UFO sightings.
Ancient frogs held an orgy, and it didn't work out well for them.
An early 19th century ayah is accused of theft.
A "hidden" self-portrait of Van Gogh.
The mysterious swans of Closeburn.
Lucy, the Elephant Hotel.
The dangers of trying to rescue a parrot.
An 1848 sea serpent sighting.
A house where John Keats once lived.
A murderer's unfortunate wife.
When infatuation leads to murder.
A tool that is among the oldest human-made objects.
A Victorian urban legend about rookeries.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at the hazards of offending an Egyptian cat god. In the meantime, here's some Spanish guitar.
A most interesting article on Jane Avril, a character from a long-ago drama (or comedy). So many interesting people lived and died and have been largely forgotten. And how on Earth did anyone recognise the oldest tool ever found as anything but a random rock?
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the photos by Prokudin-gorsky. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteFrogs never learn. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-great-windham-frog-fight-1754/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frogs https://www.ctmq.org/the-battle-of-the-frogs/ I love that bridge!
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