Beachcombed 85 July 1, 2017
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Dear Reader
The above image comes from the web but my elder daughter wanted this picture of record on the web of two of Beach’s favourite friends. Happy times in the garden here.
There follow the most interesting words sent in to StrangeHistory. Thanks to all contributors and linkers… Enjoy July! The mosquitoes have arrived here…
A French Crusader and A Chinese Sword? Chris R talks handguards…
Beggar for a Day: Some excellent pieces including the possible source of Conan Doyle’s beggar…
Chased into a Sicilian Hell: Leif gives some medieval examples…
Dog Glove Magic Disease Near Dublin (or Leicester): Chris from Haunted Ohio Books, on Anthrax and Tim from Detritus on one or many…
Dowding and the Fairies! David Wh writes a stern correction…
Fairy Feast 1912: Leif with fairy horns and fairy food and Invisible with some extraordinary pictures (loved these two)…
Flight in Seventeenth-Century Warsaw? Alan argues for hot air balloons…
Gaelic-Speaking Russians in 1914: RVU on Slavic Gaelic confusion…
History Branching: Chris S nostalgic for nuclear war…
Liberation German Prison: Louis points out that something doesn’t add up, can anyone help…
King’s Evil and a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Charm: Bruce T on the custom across the Atlantic (possibly)….
Lavoisier Blinks: Paul with a dead chicken and Lanark with the final proof (really really horrific)…
Mysterious Coffin Deposit: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books measures various objects…
Tally-Ho: Alan asks whether it is really Anglo-Norman…
The Lost Canyon and the Impossible Buffalo: Chris S on timeslips and Southern Man on African comparisons…
The Male Midwives Called Peter and the Empty Box Trick: Invisible on crowning…
The Mourning Trick: Bruce T. with a cracker…
The Parrots of the Atures: EC on the recreation of their language….
Tree-Felling Ghosts or Youth Vandalism?… Chris from Haunted Ohio Books goes with vandalism and my reply…
WW1 Rumours: Kevin on the invasion of Canada…
