From now until December 21, our Link Dumps will be sponsored by the Cats of Christmas!
Watch out for those haunted cars!
Watch out for those Welsh dragons!
Watch out for the Yowie!
The friendship of Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A beheading in Pennsylvania.
It's a nice enough shack, but a bit busy for my taste.
The Cycling Countess, who was really a menace on the road.
"There is death in the pot!"
An execution that was a mess in more ways than one.
The history of the Halifax gibbet.
The dogs of Old London.
A notorious 19th century bigamist.
The world's oldest known drawing of an animal.
The most mysterious--and creepy--ancient statue.
New interactive map shows all the ways medieval London could kill you.
The chocolate houses of 18th century London.
The often alarming world of Early Modern medicine.
Nothing to see here, just a mysterious radioactive heat melting Antarctica.
UFOs over Baffin Island.
Well. That's nice.
How Nazis tried to breed a superhorse.
An 18th century East India Company cadet writes home.
This week in Russian Weird: THEIR CATS.
Death Valley and the lost underground city.
Some overlooked heroines of WWI.
The Aiken Party Massacre.
India now has an elephant hospital.
Everyone's favorite female serial-killer-for-profit, Belle Gunness.
How Benedict Arnold got the boot.
The oldest known whiskey distillery.
A horrific tale of revenge.
Victorian dining etiquette.
The enigmatic Edward Gorey.
The Parrot Fever Panic.
Johnny Cash and the hemorrhoid cream.
The subject of this portrait would probably have preferred to remain unknown.
Vintage tea terminology.
Rats and cats take to the stage.
Rough justice in 19th century Ohio.
Shopping for mourning.
That does it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a dark moment in Edinburgh history. In the meantime, let's jump with Harry James!
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