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Welcome to the first Link Dump of June 2024!
Wedding season is here!
The incubator baby kidnapping.
The first movie star.
In which a ghost turns matchmaker. Sort of.
The child who was part human, part Neanderthal.
More evidence that if you should see a UFO, it might be wisest to shut up about it.
A hot 19th century musical instrument. Really hot.
The mystery of Mount Everest's missing bodies.
A visit to a "medieval marvel."
The "Princess Alice" disaster.
Europe's "fraud of the century."
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered.
Syphilis, a part of the dark side of the Victorian Era.
Paging Graham Hancock: new evidence for a prehistoric comet.
When potash fueled the world.
The executioner of the Nuremberg Trials.
The secret gardens of Spitalfields.
An elopement in Newcastle.
When "pineapple cheese" was a fad. For some reason.
Two parliamentary impeachments.
A composer's really embarrassing death.
A mother shoots her child's killer.
The travails of a blind orphan.
The Green Children of Woolpit: one of those historical mysteries we'll never solve.
A gruesome unsolved murder.
A fashionable 18th century hairdresser.
The Gaspe Massacre.
The earliest known carved horse.
A palace made of human blood.
The origins of the word "wuss."
Raffles, the world's most popular burglar.
Russia's Circassian princess.
Murder by bandage-removal.
The story behind a famous Renoir painting.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a remarkably puzzling murder. In the meantime, here's some Tchaikovsky.
Happy Friday!
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge fan of your site, part of my Friday routine. I like the murder mysteries, Neanderthal, archaeology and WWII posts. Today there was a story about the Nuremberg executioner Woods. It turns out he was in my Father's unit at Omaha Beach on D-Day. My Dad was the commanding officer of the 37th Engineer Battalion Beach Group. I recognized the patches on one of the pictures of Woods. He was a private at the time. I found his name on the log of the people on various landing crafts on D-Day.
ReplyDeleteI'd not heard of Coffin, the Gaspe murderer; a gruesome story. And a sad story about Florence Lawrence: Hollywood was using up and throwing away people right from the start. The 'palace of blood' in Dahomey doesn't surprise me; west African potentates were infamous for their bloody sacrifices. And I wonder if 'wuss' comes from 'worse' or is just a coincidence.
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