Beachcombed 75 September 1, 2016
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Dear Reader, and so term is beginning. First class this morning. Butterflies and relief, for the first time in a decade, that the summer is over. Still 48,000 academic words written and some fun had. There follow the c. 10000 most interesting words sent in to StrangeHistory. Thanks to all contributors…
Have a great September!
Beach
A Nineteenth-Century Hydrogen Bomb? Cheese, KMH, Stephen D and Moonman on how to kill people with hydrogen…
A Royal Ghost: Leif on jokes, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on other monarch spooks and Bruce invokes Ireland…
Bending Towards Justice: Nathaniel puts the original in context…
Don’t Walk Through That Wood: Faery Folklorist with some local data…
Earliest Manuscript Broomstick Witches: Cheese on comics and KMH on eyewitnesses…
Finns, Magic and Murder: Mike on Finns as sorcerers…
First Knocker Record from Wales: Leif on two early sources, a sixteenth century one is particularly fascinating…
Galen in Chinese Shorthand: Bruce T on shorthand and Chinese expansion…
Ghost Pills: Southern Man with a new ghost advert…
Historical Child Scarers: Filip with an inspired article about Hitler and the camps and John Widdowson with the Black Douglas…
Lying Periodicals: Mike Dash on Peterhouse…
Music in the Woods: Sreth tracks down the Campbell text…
Napoleonic Warrior in Russia: Tacitus from Detritus and Dennis on other immortals…
Oakmen Fairy Fakes: Ruth in VA on fakelore/truelore
Paleo Family Planning Today: Leif on paleo population growth…
Post Mortem Lynching: Lisa L detects a pattern…
Remembering the Strips: Bruce T with Indian villages…
Snowball Deaths: Filip with Poland and Italy…
Stephen King and the Source for Bye Bye: EC on a parallel and Bruce on Ted Bundy…
Strange Labrador Monster: Bruce T goes with elks, Nathaniel with bears…
The Earliest Broomstick Witch? Bruce T gets out his magnifying glass…
The Graveyard of the Batavia: Louis with a comic and David with various Australian sources…
The Spectres of Souther Fell 1: Weso with a new source…
The Spectres of Souther Fell 5: Bruce T with heat inversion and mirages…
