Friday, December 9, 2022

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

This week's Link Dump brings on more of our hard-partying Christmas cats!


Tombstones that contain recipes.

A particularly awful disaster at sea.

Ancient religious icons, or toys made by children?  Archaeologists are stumped.

What to do with all those second-hand tombstones you have lying around.

How to make your very own Hand of Glory.  I kinda hope you don't want to, though.

The oldest known narrative scene.

An ancient jawbone may tell quite a tale.

Robert Walpole and the Atterbury Plot.

The Parrot Fever Panic.

Merle Oberon's hidden past.

A video for everyone who's ever wondered what the Rosetta Stone actually says.

The weird side of being a second-hand bookseller.  You never know when Napoleon's penis might cross your path.

An East India Company ship goes to China.

A New Mexico serial killer who has yet to be caught.

A look at Christmas parties of the past.

A medieval grave has been discovered which is making archaeologists very happy.

The mystery of the Tombstone Pterodactyl.

The battle for the P-51 Mustang.

The perils of being a dissident archaeologist.

A reluctant rebel.

An assortment of old Christmas superstitions.

The Victorian "fasting girls."

A Russian couple in pre-1947 India.

The hotel where people go to die.

A look at one of my favorite poems.  Yes, it features a cat.

Christmas shopping with Charles Dickens.

George Cruikshank illustrates the Christmas season.

The Great London Beer Flood.

Kaspar the Savoy Cat.

The life and confessions of a murderer.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll get handy tips about destroying your family's fortune.  In the meantime, here's an instrument that's new to me.

2 comments:

  1. https://www.thesavoylondon.com/kaspar-the-famous-savoy-cat/

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  2. Too many to read at one sitting. The ninth century poem about the cat is a good one - cat and clerk... You would have thought the Jacobites would have realised that support for their cause was minimal - but that never stops the ardent rebel... And I will die at home, hopefully, thanks, not in an hotel, however welcoming they are of the nearly departed...

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