Beachcombed 86 August 1, 2017
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Dear Reader, Strangely the busiest month of the year. Summer shouldn’t be like this…. There follow the most interesting words sent in to StrangeHistory. Thanks to all contributors and linkers… A few precious days alone here for writing: children suitably enough on a beach. I’ll get back to linking and images in September. Enjoy August!
Beach
Beggar for a Day: Invisible with some brilliant beggar stories…
Buried Standing Up: lots of good emails for this…
Cane Flask: Bruce T. apparently they are still being produced…
Gaston Ouvrieu and Blindfold Driving: Several writers on poor old Gaston (evidently a showman)…
Did You Hear the One About the Ring… Floodmouse with a short but sweet observation…
Digital Abyss: Southern Man breaks writing down into three parts with different results…
Don’t Put Gunpowder in Oven: Larry finds bullets in the oven… (in 2017!)
Early Underwater Photograph: Nathaniel contests ‘first’…
Jane Fool: Invisible attacks the notion of a bald fool (effectively! An education for me.)
Generosity Repaid: Chris finds that Oscar Wilde wrote this story…
Getting-to-Heaven Spell: Chris S. looks at Egyptian tricks…
In Defence of Fakelore: NH with ‘two grenades’…
Liberation German Prison: Ralph and Nathaniel solve the mystery…
Luftwaffe, Kill a Rabbit: Lanark with the role of rabbit in geo-politics… (enjoyed this one)
Picnic Under the Vicar’s Oak: Leif and Floodmouse question the numbers (Beach concedes – not for the first time – to Leif)…
The Ghost, the Dynamite and the Fever: Val makes an important (and certainly correct connection) with a dynamite outrage and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a parallel…
Total Eclipse: Brainmunky found a brilliant early (UR?) version of the story…
