Mermaid Monday: Mermaids at Mombasa September 4, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
African mermaids from 1825. It is one of those bulletins from ‘foreign climes’ that provided British newspapers with so much of their copy in the 1700s and through much of the nineteenth century. Note how the mermaids are just slipped in, like the silly item at the end of the news. Aug. 1. The Espiegle, 18, […]
The Rhino’s Horn and Memory February 2, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
Every so often Beach gets a post from a reader that practically writes itself and the extent of this blogger’s work is the cut and paste button. Here is one such example that goes in the well established oral transmission tag. The correspondent and author was Indranil. Can any reader help out Indranil and his […]
