Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…August 2011: Invisible writes in to note that a new serpent mound may have been found: we can but hope… The genius in question is Ken Tankersley. Thanks Invisible!  …

…priest. Yes, I know you did say a contemporary locus classicus, but who can resist quoting Strabo?’ Thanks S&B and Judith for this burning gold! 9 June 2012: Invisible writes…

…engineers relax in Lenin’s shadow…’ Thanks EC! 10 Jan 2014: Invisible writes: Mortgaged his house? Tragic for him not to see the dressed-up murderer’s statue. Here’s a bit of Soviet…

…kept him on a short leash, that’s for certain. Invisible, 30 Jun 2017: While not exactly beggars, these ladies took up busking for a day: Some New York ladies were…

…with thirty pennies from thirty different people strung together on a ribbon to be worn around the neck: still I prefer the Anglesey version. 28 Feb 2014: Invisible sends in…

…Disturbingly Nude Victorian Mermaids: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with sexualised mermaid prints… Dreaming Murder in Parliament: Invisible sends in some mourning rings Fiume under D’Annunzio: JP on a fake…

…was ‘Father’s gramophone’. Apparently, Daddus would play a record and go around with his hat: what a way to busk! 21 March 2014: Invisible writes in: I’m no optics expert…

…practiced castration for men and mastectomy for women. Invisible along similar lines: Well, that post about Flirty Fishing was one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in ages! I…

…AT yahoo DOT com And any other hair jewellery doing the rounds? 2 July 2014: Invisible writes ‘How convenient you asked about hair jewelry! Just received in the mail today…

…also to Wade, Invisible, Chris S, Ricardo, Andy, Borky and Amanda who have sent me outstandings links, something that I can never equal. strangehistorylinks AT gmail DOT com for other…

…anything to this? Any evidence for Bismarck? Is Faraday an internet legend? Where is evidence for Genova, I’ve looked in Italian sources and failed? 29 Nov 2014: Invisible writes in…

…a man Beach had once had an argument with about creepy old D. H. Lawrence. Could it be that…? No, ignoble thought! Doubtless the essays had not followed some invisible…

…Invisible writes: ‘The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, despite his rumpled, avuncular appearance, lived in a menage a trois with his wife Adeline, crippled by terrible arthritis, and his “assistant,” the…

…are so very very good. For those who have not had the pleasure the LoEG are Victorian heroes taken from fiction, including the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo and Dr Jekyll,…

…  19 May 2015: As so often Invisible to the rescue. I suspect that she is (as so often) right. Her point about dragons is particularly well made as the…