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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by the fearsome Brunnhilde!
Why the hell do we yawn?
Librarians on horseback.
The (homicidal) Flower of Temple Street.
The painful life of the inventor of Coca-Cola.
The time the FBI got involved with an allegedly haunted school.
The loss of HMS Wasp.
The ghosts of Old Edinburgh.
Why 1642 was a bad year for the Earl of Leicester.
Some superstitions about blood.
A poetic bereavement therapy.
How donkeys changed human history.
The Fire Dog who dined with Teddy Roosevelt.
Rudyard Kipling's years in India were...um, lively?
So, let's talk meowing nuns.
The legend of the White Woman of Gippsland.
The "Irish giant" is finally taken out of display. After 200 years or so.
Charles Dickens' Deputy.
Archaeological predictions for 2023.
A murderer cheats the chair.
The literature of ancient Egypt.
A look at a medieval marriage.
The birth of the Burgundian kingdom.
A newly-discovered previous owner of the Voynich Manuscript.
The sort of thing that happens when you mix erring wives and jealous husbands.
Lawless women in the Star Chamber.
A hanging as entertainment.
The origins of "stump speech."
The mystery of the disappearing poet.
Why Roman Empire baths disappeared.
An old coin and a "lost" Roman Emperor.
Celebrating the Lunar New Year on the front lines of WWI.
So maybe we shouldn't blame rats for the Black Death.
19th century letters of introduction.
A 2,500 year old love letter.
A little bit of paradise in Cornwall.
The dogs who explored Antarctica.
Ireland's Great Hunger.
What we know about ancient Egyptian medicine.
Queen Victoria as an artist.
A brief history of Jell-O salad.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at an eerie little mystery at sea. In the meantime, here's a British folk group that you've probably never heard of before.
I've long thought Kipling has been looked down upon since the 1940s and '50s more for what people think he wrote about the British Empire than for his poems, stories and talent. Those who think he admired all things British without question haven't read any of his works.
ReplyDeleteAnd Burgundy. I wish it had survived the Battle of Nancy and become a strong kingdom. How history would have been changed with a power between France and Germany. (And I like how it migrated from southern France to the Rhineland. Saxony performed a similar peregrination, which is why there are two in Germany nowadays.)