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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
I predict good fortune for us all.
“It’s always a weird day when you set off in your car to go and collect a load of human brains."
The War of the Two Matildas.
The first Tour de France.
The earliest known taxation system.
Why bagpipes are played at police funerals.
A pilgrimage along the Black Path.
Some vintage Trouble With Horses.
A famous poison pen letters case.
A possible UFO abduction.
The papers of an engineer in British India.
Some 1952 UFO sightings.
A fireship attack, 1800.
The Hawaiian tsunami of 1946.
Robert Harley, the Dragon of Parliament.
Viking women with modified skulls.
The man who was cursed with a perfect memory.
A hero of British wartime intelligence.
A pirate king who vanished with the loot.
That time Prince was inspired by Nostradamus.
That time Lovecraft was inspired by a Vermont monster.
Volcanoes and the fall of the Roman Republic.
The unpleasant theory that Alexander the Great was buried alive. (Or, to be more precise, embalmed alive. Which may be even worse.)
In which yet another marriage is broken up by arsenic.
The coronation of Anne Boleyn.
The women of the California Gold Rush.
The writings of Shakespeare's sister Joan.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll investigate an unusual possible-poltergeist case. In the meantime, here's a bit of Telemann.
The Hawaiian tsunami of '46 sounds truly horrifying, with waves continually hitting the shore; you'd never know if they were done. I recall reading of Admiral James often in books about British intelligence, and the Battle of France, in 1940. It's like the guy kept popping up as a guest star in half a dozen adventures. And I knew of his nickname 'Bubbles'. As the article states, he was respected in spite of that. Now, that's respect. As for the Vermont 'Awful', a griffin seems monstrously and scary but not creepy as some of the backwoods creatures we've heard of. It's too close to being just a big animal, I think.
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