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  • Beachcombed 74 August 1, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed , trackback

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    Dear Reader, another difficult month: the strange ebb and flow of ‘luck’ is a fascinating subject. Many hours in hospital after a Dutch friend of Beach managed to break his heel in the Beach garden and needed a translator and a bodyguard (angry nurses). A tortoise escaped and is MIA and another lost an eye (!?!) and is presently in a miserable state. Beach has called a halt to historical images and links for the summer but should, God willing, start again in September. Thanks for all those who wrote with good wishes and links. The best of last month can be found below.

    Beach

    A Sumerian Heliocentric Universe: Bruce T and Gary V are sceptical…

    Arab Embassy to Dark Age Scandinavia: Bruce does Sinbad, Ashley Christ and Cheese Michael Crichton

    Baby Eating Eagles: Andy the Mad Monk on a homicidal Australian eagle and a boy…

    Carving Liquid for Stone and Marble: Several contributions including the nature of marble and Latin American weed juice…

    Curious Royal Epithets: Several contributions here including the elbow high and the shitter….

    Fairies Are Oh So… Neolithic: Leif with email of the month and Bruce with mushrooms…

    Foch and the Armistice: SJ with hard data on the supposed quotation…

    Intelligence vs Wisdom in Public Debate: Nathaniel and Norm take me gently to task…

    Perhaps in My Father’s Time: Lisa with a cat (of course) and Stephen D and Mike with 1680 (incredible)…

    I Shot the Mermaid: Enter Leif with the walrus…

    Living on Other Planets: Loes with Swedenborg…

    Sexual Misunderstanding: Ruth on southern and northern accents…

    Tenth-Century Sasquatch? Norman on Gog and Magog…

    The Caithness Mermaid Mystery Solved: Leif looks at inconsistencies (very effectively)…

    The Coming Destruction of Minneapolis! Lots of emails on this one…

    The Drumming Well: Kai Roberts with a Yorkshire parallel, and ALN on the science…

    The Red Hand: Matt has identified the town…

    The Pirandello-Lenin Statue: Roberto and Sofia on literary sources…

    Turkish in Medieval Cambodia? PC looks to the Philippines…

    You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with some parallels…

    Volcano or Leopard Skin: Stephen D with another volcano, Bruce T with kills and EC (with a good point) about dissimilarity with geometric designs