Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…Box Our Yews declare they may be- made of Stocks, By culture too: And Trunks afsume of late The grand proprieties of Human state: Couch’ d in an Oake the…

…a human trampoline, Eleanor emerges as a woman who made one unusual decision in her sentimental life – to leave her first husband, the tedious Louis. And presumably, like sparks…

…entire complex, which had not then been built: Saunders Lewis and his commando would rather have hurled themselves from a cliff rather than risk a human life. On the other,…

…made the flesh fly from the legs and bodies of each other at every blow; and it is stated, that at the last kick inflicted by the human brute who…

…has to be high and, let’s face it, anyone foolish enough to get involved will not be a particularly reliable human being… He would then break activities down into four…

…the study of FM’s folly but of a universal and all too understandable human weakness among past-loving historians: the ability to see things that are not there. In 1833 FM…

…our course, we went as far as thirty-four degrees and a third towards the Antarctic pole; there we found, near a river, men whom they call ‘cannibals’, who eat human…

…in the late fourteenth century. However, by that strange perversion of human nature that makes heroes out of villains, folk songs and legends gathered around KS and his men: think…

…II, a raven, then a peat stack (though the Latin is uncertain), then a dog, then a she goat, then a tall cadaverous human. In tale VIII (in another difficult…

…and more years than he’d care to remember Beachcombing can authoritatively state that they were all loathsome human toadstools. McCarthur and Hirohito neither grin, nor, Beachcombing suspects, could they bear…

…the coast, but also the very rhythms of the man’s thoughts. Shakespeare is a wit who understood human nature, who had an ear for the music of poetry and who…

Beachcombing is returning with some relief to familiar territory after the Shakespeare wars of the last couple of days. The subject: unicorns and the earliest human accounts of these mysterious…

…the northern sky, for fourteen summer days and nights. This voyage passed far beyond the range of human exploration, and was one from which there appeared to be no return.’…

…horrifying act of human ingenuity. Brahms, so it is said, was an avowed enemy of the feline tribe. Unlike Scarlatti, who was passionately fond of chords of the diminished cats,…

…where it lies, or it was conveyed hither by human art, or cast hither by an operation of nature. And whence, by whom or how, could it be conveyed hither,…