Beachcombed 73 July 1, 2016
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Dear Reader
What a month of good and bad: Brexit, a rogue Italian bureaucrat demanding thousands, a visit to grandparents, a car crash, a visit from grandparents and, of course, now Beach has gone and lost one of his jobs: all because he wouldn’t force twenty students to sit through a conference that didn’t have anything to do with them. Still the high road, hey? Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month: the cream follow here, about 6,000 words worth. Next month family planning in prehistory, witch wars and a bizarre non death in the US Civil War.
Chair Jumping: Invisible with a parallel…
Fairy Jousting: Kris investigates a bucking horse…
French Witch Burning: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with another…
Fun of the Fair: Lisa and Bruce on human folly…
Furthest Viking Raid: Constantinople, Stephen D and Bruce T on other destinations…
Hitler and Mussolini in France: only as Tony points out they are in Russia… (humiliation of the month)
How Long Did Our Ancestors Live: KMH brings out his inner actuary, eat your beans…
Kaiser and Crowned Prince: More stories from Invisible…
Lost Maps: Louis with two gems…
Marjorana’s Mysterious Disappearance: Henry with a new Italian source…
Medieval Whaling Ireland: Bruce T on stroking whales…
More Men in the Moon: Typhon, Chris S, Ivo and Moonman on a forgotten German astronomer… (Also we got the picture)
Norfolk Shape Shifter: Bruce T. on chuckleheads…
Oldest Phrase in the World: Chris S with Aesop…
Red Hand: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with an analogue
Renwick Cockatrice: Tacitus from Detritus of Empire and Bruce T. on exotic bats (sceptical but very enjoyable to think about)
Roman Coin in the Congo! Bruce T on late arrivals
Sexual Misunderstanding: Lehmansters makes a good point about pronunciation…
Victorian Ancestor of an Internet Scam: Filip predates…
Wolfe and the Sergeant: Bruce T with guns…
Wrong Bed: Southern Man sends some ‘inversions’ in…
