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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by more of our Christmas Cats!
My apologies for the Strange Company HQ holiday party getting a bit rowdy.
A warrior's welcome home.
The 1550 funeral of Claude of Lorraine.
Medieval people had better teeth than you may think.
The first seeing-eye dogs to ride the New York City subway.
A scandalous relative of Napoleon.
Is Santa Claus buried in Ireland?
On the other hand, he may be in Missouri.
Why cats knead.
Why we need death.
On the other hand, here are broths that never die.
One of the lesser-known awful things Nazis did.
The family who invented snow globes.
Charles Dickens' tragic Christmas turkey.
A brief history of baking powder.
Ivan T. Sanderson and the Warren County Wooo-Wooo.
The pilot who wanted to crash into Mount Everest.
In which we learn that G.K. Chesterson's brother was a stinker.
It's looking increasingly likely that MH370 was deliberately crashed.
They're still finding previously unknown Nazca geoglyphs.
Christmas party games from the past.
A Christmas dinner with the dead.
The first Washington Monument.
An 18th century experimental air rifle.
A brewer is updating an ancient beer.
A tale of financial fraud and murder.
Cats have been ruling us for quite a long time.
What Greenland was like 2 million years ago.
The man who didn't think much of his own funeral.
Underrated artifacts from King Tut's tomb.
That time when England had a mince pie government.
Some newly-discovered cave paintings in Colombia.
The oldest cyclist in the UK.
A riotous Christmas in the Chelsea Workhouse.
A fascinating cave in Australia.
Depression-era "radio recipes."
The Spitalfields Market at night.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll encounter a grim true Christmas ghost story. In the meantime, here's Willie.
I've always liked G K Chesterton. The fact that he was too loyal to his brother doesn't surprise me, nor does it alter my opinion of the larger Chesterton; perfection isn't necessary for admiration. I suspect having to agree and support Cecil was painful for G K, and to his friends. And the images of Spitalfields Market are interesting. Taken just thirty years ago, it shows wagons and wheel barrows being used that could have come from the 18th century.
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