Beachcombed 60 June 1, 2015
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May is perhaps the sweetest month of all. Had a great time with Mrs B and the kids and even written a couple of article. The tortoises are patrolling our small garden and the sun has fought off the clouds: no snakes, no head lice, no rat infestations, no audits (well actually there is but we are waiting for the report so we can pretend it is not happening for now). Happy summer to all readers. Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Chris, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month. Thanks for all emails too and thanks for all good wishes.
Beach
PS Beach screwed up on various fronts with wordpress in the last month: some readers may have missed this post that came out a day late on D’Annunzio. Chris S was kind enough, meanwhile, to immortalise this act of incompetence. Sigh.
A Poxy Invasion of Europe: Mike Dash writes in with some thoughts on other limits to Steppe expansion, LTM on Asian plague and KHM on leadership, Bruce T on Genghis’s plans for Europe…
Anglo-Saxon Church Eaves: Invisible on Foundational Sacrifices…
Balloon Bridge Across the English Channel: Giorgio with the picture of the bridge, gold!
Contacting Mars: Chris S with some brilliant other solutions and KMH on Victorian innocence…
Credulity and Animal Lore: LTM on teeth worms, KS on Italian migration and myth, Ruth on snakes and bad rap toads and Peter on Spartacus!
Disturbingly Nude Victorian Mermaids: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with another for the collection…
Downey’s Death: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with two parallel cases and Mac Mac with a poem…
Execution by Cannon: Séb sends in execution by anti-aircraft gun…
Execution by Dogs: DL on the conquistadors and dogs…
History Journals and Their Limits: Hist Anon 1 and Hist Anon 2 recount their experiences…
Hono Heke: ANL with a Latin American paralle (which happens though to be true…)
Lancashire Kick Boxing: Mike on the Pendlebury Purrers…
Neo-Pagan Partisans: RD writes in with an update on the Ukrainian neo-pagan partisans…
Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Another modern Pan from John…
Poxless 1492: Bruce T on Amerindian victory in southern Florida…
Roman Gutter Burials: Giorgio on etymologies…
Searching for Mrs S***k*n*us: Al writes in with an East Prussian connection…
The Durham Serpent: Invisible argues against dragons and for fat snakes, Chris S steps in with the crocodile…
The Greene County Wild Man: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books unmasks the Wild Man..
The Manufacture of Chinese Wildmen: ANL parses our witness and the ‘credulous’ Chinese…
The Stone of Oo: EC on transexuals…
The Vein of Love: Nathaniel on which hand…
Titanic Iceberg: NH takes this one to pieces…
Wild Man Circus Fakery: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with some more US examples
