Friday, October 20, 2023

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

Yet another of our Halloween Cats welcomes you to this week's Link Dump!



Using AI to decipher ancient texts.

A flight attendant's remarkable escape from death.

Neanderthals may have hunted cave lions.

Japanese bathroom ghosts.

The two leading women of the Battle of Hastings.

The first submarine to sink an enemy ship.

That time Elvis Presley got into a fight at a gas station.

The civil service exam that shaped China.

A set of Bronze Age jewelry has been discovered in Switzerland.

What it's like living in a haunted New York brownstone.

Manchester, England's top literary woman.

The physician who treated patients in her sleep.

Archaeological evidence charting the rise and fall of ancient violence.

The dog who saved a city.

A huge solar storm hit our planet over 14,000 years ago.

The true story that inspired "The Nightmare on Elm Street."

The horror TV show that spawned its own folklore.

One very bad uncle.

The stories behind some famous photos.

The birth of the modern bathroom.

Crime and the "hand of glory."

The life of a Georgian-era musician.

A "snapshot" of the day the dinosaurs died.

A haunted grocery store.

Where the Amish go on vacation.

One of those stories involving wills and ghosts.

A folding chair from the 6th century.

An unsinkable stoker.  This is one of those cases where it's hard to say if the guy was very lucky, or very unlucky.

Europe's oldest hunk of bread.

The paint used for the Mona Lisa held a surprise.

A look at the soldiers of the Roman Army.

An Englishman of the Indian Police in Bombay.

Politeness counts.  Even if you're a burglar.

A forgotten Viking Queen.

A look at early legal records relating to verdicts.

Medieval Europe really liked clocks.

General George Washington's medical corps.

Solar eclipses that shaped history.

Yet another look at underwater UFOs.

It turns out that Vikings had stained glass windows.

The Witch's House of Beverly Hills.

A feud leads to murder.

A stone Christ speaks.

Sylvia Plath and bees.

Shropshire's Hallowmas traditions.

Relics of the Salem Witch Trials.

Murder, suicide, or accident?  A man's mysterious death.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at America's first murder case.  In the meantime, here's some Handel.

2 comments:

  1. Excallent articles. I especially liked the one about soldiering in the Roman army, and the about the day the asteroid hit Earth 65,000,000 years ago. I enjoy Clementi's music (his first name is one I've not heard given to anyone else), as I do many of the lesser known classical composers. And if the expression on the Strange Company staffer at the top doesn't embody 'dismissive', I don't know what does.

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  2. Pivaroff's death is perplexing - there must have been a fair bit of force used if the needle was found fully inside his heart.

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