Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…of sincere but rather tedious type], as he termed it, declared that if Clamps’s lights were spirits of ‘humans’, they must have been those of deceased lamplighters or gas men—for…

…to make that one work. But in ancient Egypt cats regularly murdered their human neighbours: though first their human neighbours had to kill them. Diodorus Siculus (Sicilian Diodorus) is our…

…legs. It passed him, and scowled upon him with a human face, and the expression of a demon, disappearing over the Barbican. He was so frightened that he became giddy,…

…far so good. The monarchy was picked out in earlier times by a Darwinian drive to kill and be ‘fitter’ than other human beings. The genetics in a royal family…

…time of his visit to Ulster in the Home Rule crisis of 1886. The canvas had been badly torn and though I am very shy of painting human faces I…

…of Columbus are the manatis, or sea-cows of the Caribean Sea and great South American rivers. They are now scarcely ever seen out at sea. Their resemblance to human beings,…

…by his discovery Liggins began, with his colleague Ross Howie, a clinical trial using cortisol and human mothers and in 1972 they went public with their findings: ‘A controlled trial…

…‘Christ will come like that!’ The combination of the useless and unattractive with the rainbow posterior meant that peacocks were always going to go far in the human mind. It…

…stone had struck, down sank the victim quite dead.’ (183-184) Thanks SY! 20 July 2015: Kate G writes in ‘human ignorance of how to use boiled-egg water — we humans,…

…secret with its ill-proportioned antlers, the slanting face, the clearly human feet and the strange, floppy penis. So much of our past crumbles upon examination. What a relief that here…

…the uninitiated are fairy cuckoos, fey babies, often thousands of years old, who are, so the storytellers claim, taken and put in the place of human babies. There are some…

…religious apparitions are only the ever changing masks of a true unknown phenomenon that affects human consciousness. After reading so many of the cases he cites in this book it…

…has their vices: Beachcombing eats his children’s goldfish when they’ve gone to bed. What do you do? Beach likes studies in human nature so when this story floated into the…

…crop solution’: at least for nicotine. ‘Nicotine use in early Mediaeval Kirchheim/Teck, Germany’, Journal of Comparative Human Biology 52 (2001) 72-76, Human bone samples of 123 Alemans of the 5th…

…In other respects sound, and in good health. Being without human voice he bleated like a sheep, and being averse to the food and drink that we are accustomed to,…