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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
It's a Friday the 13th Link Dump! Bring on the black cats!
East End entertainers of 1922.
Some vintage children's games that are, frankly, extremely creepy.
A 3,000 year old wishing well.
The man who became a verb.
Alexander the Great as horse whisperer.
Two prison warders find themselves up before the bench.
A previously-unknown ancient population.
The tomb archaeologists are scared to open. Not without reason.
The death of a legendary tree.
Smallpox may have been around much earlier than we thought.
A case of murder during prayer.
A look at Europe's "bog bodies."
The coffin plate in the parlor.
The doctor and the Confederate General.
That time when John Wilkes was expelled from Parliament.
Lost medieval sword-fighting tricks.
We have finally learned why ancient Rome had such good concrete.
The rat graves of Washington, D.C. I suppose there are a few one-liners in that statement, but let's not swing at the easy ones.
The world's youngest serial killer. (And no one knows where he is now. Lovely.)
The worst murderer of all time.
The origins of "y'all."
How to defeat the Mongols.
An artist at the Elizabethan court.
Born in India, destitute in Glasgow. (Part 2 is here.)
The "world's best McDonald's" is not where you might think.
Death by piano playing.
A sculpture with quite a past.
The man who asked to go to prison.
Stalin's purge of the Red Army.
A brief history of street food sellers.
A brief history of Angel Island Immigration Station.
When our planet was "snowball Earth."
A misunderstood Roman Empress.
Ancient stone tools which may have been made by monkeys.
18th century wigmakers.
Life in a Victorian prison.
In which Victor Hugo meets Dom Pedro II.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a particularly sad missing-person case. In the meantime, bring on the Celtic-Indian bagpipes!
I never cared for the Mongols; I've always been pleased at their defeat by the Mamelukes (that's how long I've been pleased - since Mamelukes was spelled with two Es...) And 'best McDonald's in the world'... That is, to paraphrase Major Winchester from M*A*S*H, like finding the best hockey team in Ecuador...)
ReplyDeleteAnd I think your link on the previously unknown population takes us to the tomb of the first Chinese emperor...
Ah, so it did. That happens when you have twenty different tabs open. Fixed it!
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