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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Strange Company HQ celebrates the first Link Dump of the New Year!
A mystery from 150 years ago.
Poe's best-selling work during his lifetime was a book about seashells. Because it's a funny old world.
The sort of thing that happens when a widow asks her cheapskate boyfriend to deal with her late husband's ashes. Suffice to say, D.H. Lawrence is probably not resting in peace.
The link between the meat trade and 18th century criminality.
How John the Baptist's head wound up in a French cathedral.
Evidence of early Ice Age writing.
The Philippine resistance movement in WWII.
A new theory about ancient Egyptian mummification.
HMS Phaeton and Beaufort's ruse: an escape at sea in 1795.
A tragic "message from the sea."
Some vintage "manly exercises."
A UK village that is visited by a lot of UFOs.
A weird vintage "diverting game."
A prolific Dutch serial killer.
How lasers are finding ancient civilizations.
The British Museum Bindery fire.
Superstitions just ain't what they used to be.
The policeman and the polar bear.
The rarest mineral on Earth.
Catherine of Aragon as a diplomat.
The history of addressing someone as "man."
The sort of thing that happens when you buy a home with a very dark past.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a quirky poltergeist account. In the meantime, here's a fun blast from the musical past.
Cornwallis's ruse was a good one, and I've no doubt he and his ships would have given a good account of themselves had it not worked, but, given the history of such deceits, it makes me think warfare isn't always for the dummy.
ReplyDeleteAnd on that subject, I initially read the link to "Manly Exercises" as "Manly Excuses". I didn't know whether I was going to be amused or inspired...
(And Strange Company HQ sure knows how to bring in the first Link Dump of the year!)