Welcome to this Friday's Link Dump!
Our hosts for this week are some Caledonian visitors.
Bad company in 1950s Los Angeles.
The life and work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The failed attempt to get Canada to fight for the colonies in the American Revolution.
Early newspaper reporting about the Loch Ness Monster.
The origins of England's common law rule.
Napoleon's traveling bookcase.
Legends of the Emily Morgan Hotel.
Yet another case of a young girl being blamed for poltergeist manifestations.
The tragedy of Zeppelin L-19.
So, let's talk cursed souvenirs.
Chimpanzees make pretty good doctors.
The art of the Catholic counter-reformation.The scent of ancient sculptures.
Extraordinary treasures found in ordinary places.
So, literary parties can get weird.
Why ancient reptile footprints are giving scientists migraines.
A Roman aqueduct full of cats.
The man who rebuilt the UK Parliament.
A brief history of demons.
Why you can't go on the world's longest train journey.
The days when the worst part of widowhood was ordering the mourning dresses.
The mysterious murder of San Francisco socialites.
The many lives of a container ship.
A family triple murder.
The world of intraterrestrials.
Bessie Coleman, pioneering aviator.
The man who sold his wife for 20 shillings. And a dog.
We're all glowing.
HMS Achates and the "worst journey in the world."
A tribute to "Hoosier cabinets."
Folklore's "otherworldly brides."
When Calvinists criminalized singing.
Some particularly cold cases.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a couple's unsolved disappearance. In the meantime, I read the other day that the former lead singer for The Spinners died. They were one of those groups that made listening to the radio in the '70s fun.
Thank you so much for sharing my Rossetti blog here... I believe he likes it right well in the gallant company of the dump here! Bestest, Dirk
ReplyDeleteI agree that the 'longest train journey in the world' is actually several train journeys, no different than riding across Europe by switching trains every few hundred miles. It's too bad: I love the idea of expresses - one train, one cabin, the whole trip. I'd go crazy, seeing all the cats of Moria and not being able to TNR them all... I've read about the American attempt to conquer Canada, before the U.S. was even a country (that must be a first in the history of imperialism); invading a country while claiming to do it for its own protection is usually counter-productive; at least, it never worked for the Soviet Union...
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