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  • Beachcombed 58 April 1, 2015

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    Dear Reader, Tortoises are now out, general celebration. Just a couple more weeks of class and onto summer research. Beach needs to apologise for not getting to all the emails yet, a visit from Beach mater from the Dominions meant that there were other more important things going on. Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Chris, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put, meanwhile, the very best contributions below to the posts from this month. Thanks for all emails too.

    Beach

    Books and the Ghost: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with lots of parallel instances…

    Chamber Pot Enemies: Tacitus from Detritus writes in with more on chamber pots and the Confederacy….

    Changing Sex in Victorian England: Chris S writes in about Marinus/Marina the Monk….

    Child Stealing and Bridge Building: Leif evokes Sergei Parajanov…

    Dear Lord and Father: Ray G. writes in with a song about a rat/baby with liver cancer…

    Death by Joke: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books writes in with some classy American examples…

    Five Greatest Historical Graphical Novels: Chris S and Mike Celeste with other titles…

    French Crusader and a Chinese Sword: Dan writes in suggesting, very credibly, Byzantium…

    Great Balls Floury Fire: Dr Gus improving the science…

    Hair Harvests: Miss Fine on the seven sisters and their sometimes stolen hair…

    Historical Barbies: Southern Man notes an ISIS Barbie…

    Historical Ménage a Trois: Bruce T on Verlaine, Matilde and Rimbaud…

    Inuit in Orkney: Alan F argues for a Scandinavian connection…

    Natator 1: Bob S has found a picture…

    Natator 2: And Oz on eating underwater…

    Preserving Foolish Enemies: Stephen D on Winder and Nathaniel on why killing leaders is probably a bad idea…

    Selling Children in the 1800s: Bruce T on a US equivalent from the 1930s swapping children for beer…

    Smelling Germans: JCE with German odours and Chris S. on tobacco…

    Tears and Bows: Stephen D. sends, for me, the best email of the month on nationality and names…

    Teetotallers at Sea: DL with thoughts on grog…

    The Eyes Have It: Tacitus from Detritus on politicians’ eyes, EH on Attila’s eyes and TEG on Hitler’s

    The Horror of History: Chris S. on arguing that things aren’t so bad…

    The Oldest Phrase in the World: COR and EH get into fame and Chris takes an eye…

    Three Thousand Year Old Toads of Troy: Bob Skinner getting to the actual source…