Friday, October 27, 2023

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn

This week's Link Dump is hosted by the last of our Halloween Cats!


I think we're all about to get turned into frogs.


The cat with the world's loudest purr.

Aleister Crowley, foodie.

Empress Elisabeth's archive of anorexia.

The autopsy of a saint.

A trailblazing TV magic show.

The ancient ceremony of Landing the Pie.

The spiritual roots of solitary confinement.

A farewell to the world's oldest dog.

Two women are sailing on the Thames in Stone Age boats.  Because science.

A sculptor is surprised to learn that he's dead.

A last letter from Auschwitz.

Paranormal science experiments.

A lost archdeaconry.

A 5,000 year old tomb in Scotland.

In search of Roman London.

The scholar who learned the secrets of the Aztecs.

Special delivery!

Neanderthals were more human than we thought.

Did Nietzsche drive himself insane?

Superstitions surrounding burial shrouds.

The fake marriage and the deathbed confession.

A brief history of hidden messages in songs.

Some cold cases that were solved by modern technology.

The memoirs of an early 20th century British student in West Bengal.

Rum and a particularly meaningless murder.

How "thumbs up" became the symbol for hitchhiking.

The man who claimed to have buried the Loch Ness Monster.

A look at Napoleon's generalship.

The judgment of the dead in ancient Egypt.

The case for offering prizes to solve historical mysteries.

How the name of a murdered child became British slang.

Why tourists still visit Lenin's tomb.

A family's tragic history.

The Moon is a lot older than we thought.

The rise and fall of the handkerchief.

A photo-bombing flophouse cat.

The sad story of the feline astronaut.

An insulted woman's deadly revenge.

Magic and medieval bees.

A weeping ghost in Pennsylvania.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll--in the Halloween spirit--look at a particularly spooky murder case.  In the meantime, here's a dance tune from the mid 17th century.

2 comments:

  1. It's Friday! Love coming here to read. Thank you!

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  2. Good Heavens, what a to-do about the archdeaconry of Dorset. You'd think the monarch would have had enough of such shenanigans after a couple hundred years - though rulers may have thought it (as Charles II did about Loss Ross's divorce bill) "better than a play." I still carry a handkerchief. Many people use tissue paper, but they rarely have it when they need it. And the oft-touted means of dealing with a sneeze (especially quoted during covid) of sneezing into one's sleeve is disgusting...

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