Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
And you're just in time for afternoon tea!
A flying horse in Staffordshire.
New York's war against banana peels.
The houseplant that can count.
Fun and games in medieval London.
Hitler's dress rehearsal for war.
A coded letter from Napoleon has finally been deciphered.
A woman is cleared of being a witch. Three hundred years after she died. All together now: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
So maybe we've been reading the Voynich Manuscript incorrectly.
Moths and butterflies as souls of the dead.
How to mail yourself a ghost.
An ancient mystery hidden in spear points.
Ghost stories from the mortuary.
Edward Despard: Hero or traitor?
A very weird "cone hill" in the Amazon.
The mystery of the "Phoenix Lights."
Pancho Villa's well-traveled skull.
More rewriting of human history, fresh off the grill!
George III visits Oxford.
A brief history of spittoons.
The difference between ghosts and ghouls.
The cat who has taken over a train station.
If you want to drink a mix of battery acid and orange syrup, do I have the recipe site for you.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a teenager's baffling death. In the meantime, here's some Handel.
It occurs to me that the trouble Napoleon took to encipher his message to Marmont wasn’t really worth it. There were some indications of troops anchoring their movements, but nothing very detailed, probably nothing the Austrians hadn’t already known or guessed. The cat at the Spanish railway station: all I could think of was, ‘I hope he’s fixed’. The recipes-article is certainly bizarre, and dangerous. I like the notation at the end of the ‘bonbons cast in leaden moulds’: “The sweets are for children.” They seem very definite about that… I enjoyed the article about games in medieval London; just like now, people in grim times still have fun. And the skating! Who knew?
ReplyDeleteI look to foward to these Friday lists, always interesting. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks again. My favourite this week was about the Voynich manuscript - my very first thought was perhaps it was pages folded in the manner of the “fold in” on the inside cover of the old Mad magazine. Those were the days 😉
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Geoff