Welcome to the first Link Dump of June 2025!
Wedding season!
A tourist says a ghost is trying to kill him, and then he dies. So.
Dolphin drug parties. So.
That time when Petrarch was nearly killed by a book.
An attempt to explain Spontaneous Human Combustion.
The probable story behind a bizarre 1337 murder.
A look at a troubled 17th century pregnancy.
A look at auditory hallucinations.
A look at colonial ducking stools.
A look at our fear of the undead.
The knight who stood up to the Nazis.
RMS Amazon's ordeal by fire.
Bloomsbury Square during the Gordon Riots.
People are changing their brainwaves to feel less pain.
So now we may have to rewrite the history of writing.
An animal which was fossilized from the inside out.
How to build a 19th century dugout.
A famed doppelganger legend.
A betrayed woman's revenge.
A woman who disappeared 60 years ago is found alive and well.
The famously long-lived Thomas Parr.
A very weird ancient skull.
When Nazi U-boats prowled the Gulf Coast.
The Merry Mermaids of Margaret Morris.
The Vatican and the Monster of Ravenna.
A 17th century woman's sermon notes.
The origins of the term, "talking head."
The American colonists who picked the losing side of the Revolution.
The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than we thought.
The widow and her matchmaking cows.
The rat-filled origins of the Tooth Fairy.
The underwater forest that built Venice.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll learn what happens when you offend a mummified cat. In the meantime, let's get folky.
More good articles. I noted that the one on the Monster of Ravenna shows a picture of San Marino (its citadel on the cliff top), which even some sites on the internet claim is Ravenna. (Ravenna became the capital of the Western Roman Empire at one time due to its defences of marshes, rather than cliffs). Spontaneous human combustion is interesting; even more so is the fate of pig's cadaver that burned in the same way. The Czech knight reminded me of Don Quixote... And it might interest you to know that my family is a Loyalist family. My ancestors came to the Americas in the 17th century, fought for the King during the American war of independence, then settled in Nova Scotia, part of which was separated for Loyalists and became New Brunswick.
ReplyDeletetalking head link isn't working. see, I do still check.
ReplyDeleteI think that site was temporarily down. The link seems to be working now.
DeleteGreat list!
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