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Friday, June 12, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where the Strange Company staff is off on an early summer road trip! Daniel Webster prosecutes an ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Via Newspapers.com This tale of strange goings-on in a seemingly unremarkable apartment was told in the “Western Mail,” March 10, 1927: An e...
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Monday, June 8, 2026

The Bizarre Murder of Pauline Amsel

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"Indian Citizen," November 12. 1914, via Newspapers.com A frightening and inexplicable tragedy hit the normally peaceful town of D...
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Friday, June 5, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump! I'm sure our host this week needs no further introduction.  The caption says it all. A medieval ...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Via Newspapers.com   Proof of reincarnation--sort of--appeared in the “Ottawa Citizen," December 16, 1933: LONDON (by mail).-Here is th...
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Monday, June 1, 2026

“Deserved A Better Fate”: The Misadventures of the “Great Eastern"

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Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett It would not be overly hyperbolic to describe Isambard K...
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Friday, May 29, 2026

Weekend Link Dump

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  Welcome to this week's Link Dump! It's a family affair! How Napoleon took Malta. Is consciousness everything? Tesla's key to t...
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