Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…prior to 2160 will be contaminated by radiation. For the purposes of the challenge the world will not be destroyed by asteroids or human agency – though there will certainly…

…edge. Beachcombing concedes that it is not Anna Karenina. But it is one of these rare moments when dark British antiquity becomes human: ‘The blood that warms an English yeoman,…

…defy the canons of good taste as defined by every human society since the beginning of time: he decided to raid her tomb. Of course, if this had been Earnest…

…line) but only a portion of the god which can fit into a human frame will incarnate, not the complete god. Humans are too small to hold a real god….

…and several on his back. Sometimes the writing is pictographic. A case was reported in the American Spiritual Telegraph of the appearance of a clearly-defined human heart with a wound,…

…attack the idea of owning human beings and these criticism grew in pitch till, by 1100, slavery was illegal in much of western Europe. Naturally the thuggish Vikings continued their…

…of human combustion and witchcraft in eighteenth-century Suffolk. Most email was received over the DNA of Iceland and the possibility that an Amerindian woman was brought to the island sometime…

…multiman. However, the idea that once a culture discovers atomic weapons it will likely destroy itself is highly romantic. Undoubtedly there have been significant meteor falls in human history, but…

…a file on radioactive folly in human history. But, in the absence of this file, he hopes that reader’s will be able to provide some good radioactive stories and make…

…was the Tower of Progress where reactionaries, conservatives, bishops and generals would presumably be thrown to their deaths. At least, at the beginning… If other human experiments in perfection are…

…human foot, to my great comfort and delight, I saw a man hanging upon a gibbet; my pleasure at the cheering prospect was inexpressible, for it convinced me that I…

…hear that fairy mediators have been sent in to restore human-fairy relations. This set Beachcombing thinking of a rare subcategory of the fairy faith, what might be called ‘fairy gifts’:…

Beach has always had a thing about Boethius (obit 525). Boethius penned the great Consolation of Philosophy, a strangely affecting study of human priorities, while waiting for his execution. Boethius…

…squealed. Beachcombing with his poor estimation of human nature would certainly go along with this. But RR has his doubts: one of the pleasant things, indeed, about reading RR is…

…an interest in the water that eggs are boiled in? One possibility is that the story-teller was making clear the difference between the mermaid and the human world: humans are…