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Welcome to the first Link Dump of 2025!
A "possessed" woman in India.
The links between an Italian Duchess, Thomas Cromwell, and Anne Boleyn.
Some supernatural reasons not to stray off the beaten path.
Alexander the Great's charm offensive.
A map of the Big Cats of Britain.
Superstitions can be good for you.
The strange Rohonc Codex.
Some predictions about 2025 from 100 years ago.
A medical mystery in a French village.
The ghosts of the Cuban Club.
The journeys of Daniel Defoe.
A "proper New Year's gift" for your 18th century maidservant.
In which Princess Mathilde Bonaparte breaks all norms.
Past ways of predicting the future.
Some old British New Year's resolutions.
UFOs and Jimmy Carter.
A New Year's death omen.
The traditions of Plough Monday.
A "walkable" 16th century city.
We have a new "oldest book in the world." Catchy title, too.
Using grammar to solve cold cases.
The mystery of the body in the basement of a New York club.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a road trip that ended in mysterious tragedy. In the meantime, here's Neil Young.
Great list, happy Friday!
ReplyDeletePrincess Mathilde sounds like she gauged the republicans correctly in 1871, and they gauged her: she had no interest in re-establishing the monarchy and no one was going to use her to do it! I wonder if Venice may have been a walkable city due as much to the canals that would have made it difficult for horsed transportation as for any other reason. The predictions from the 1920s are vague enough to be accurate in general - but I doubt that there was a prediction that the "Hymn of Enlightenment" wouldn't be sung much...
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