Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

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…perhaps the largest city in the world at this date, with about one and a half million human ants scrabbling through it. If persons who may have lost a child,…

…a basic human malfunction (or just possibly function) becomes a critical problem. As DH spoke to people about the Old Hag he found himself (reluctantly) being put in the role…

…purpose by order of the Maharajah. The ‘disgusting’ details presumably had to do with the human digestive system? On the appearance of Runjeet and his court, [the Faqueer] proceeded to…

…naval personnel and Barbary sailors were killed in the conflict as the US effectively put an end to Barbary piracy. Any other contributions to this list of human incompetence or,…

…urged by Dr. Webster to assist him in concealing aset of human bones in a wooden box; and she distinctly recollected that there was a thigh-bone which, after failing to…

…to say that the Nature Spirits had lost interest in humans, since they have been made to feel that they are neither believed in nor wanted. He thought that men…

…if I’d have been the lady, I’d have complained to the poor artist. But it might also symbolise a human love: the commitment of the painting being the one who…

…was how close the whole thing came to failure. As a lover of accident, insane coincidences and human stupidity Beachcombing notes five moments when the scheme almost blew up (once…

…lightning survivor was constantly brought up against the limits of his own personality and the human condition more generally. Second, the monastic structure, recognising Luther’s dangerous introspection made the mistake…

…of humans and their habitations, and that probably goes double if a human has just dipped them in pitch. Crows are also noisy, a poor choice of bird for what…

…even has a tag – cobblers – to deal with this rather depressing facet of human nature. And with ‘cobblers’ in mind, Beachcombing has recently been thinking about the way…

…rooted in fact. For example, Ctesias describes a bird named a ‘parrot’ as having a human tongue – a nonsense obviously, but likely a report of parrots ‘talking’. So could…

…and important part of human nature to – let Beachcombing be frank – some of his nicest but most ideologically dubious colleagues. Sometimes there are historical specifics: the English Reformation,…

…duty tonight for his insomniac daughter – they all described and (with the exception of Augustine) believed in tribes of dog-headed human beings in lands distant from their own. And…