Beachcombed 51 September 1, 2014
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Dear Reader,
A wonderful month, 6 articles written and now getting ready to a return to teaching. Special thanks not only to the emailers below for the individual posts but 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 contributions.
Thanks and a great September to you all!
Beach
Here are all the improvements, corrections and additions from the month. The most important words on the blog
Ashanti Ewer: Mike Dash and Louis write in with similar and similarly convincing points about a late trade off settlements on the Gold Coast.
Cat Music and Cat Organs: Andy with a light-hearted video (not informative but hilarious)
Christians Sacrificing Animals: KS with some almost Judaic examples and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a far out American instance and MR with the cleansing of the Temple and the coming of Christ.
Chronic Conditions: Lots of individual tips for specific cures but in terms of generalities KMH sends in a religious solution.
Chinese Automata: DM with some examples from the ancient Med.
Escaped Lion: Janet has a story but best of all a Victorian picture.
Fairies Among Us: How Invisible almost married a seal.
Fireballs and Dead Sheep: Sword&Beast and TW with some Fortean parallels and Michael R. dealing with the dates.
Hidden Flags: Nathaniel finds a flag used to hide two other flags
In Defence of the Dark Ages: Stewart wades in with some examples from the US
In Search of Enys Tregarthen: PCB with a reflection on ‘cripple’ and Lisa L with some hard data.
Last Shot at Waterloo: nice parallel in Kipling from Michel C.
Last Stand at Calais: Neil H. on the resting place of the Gulzar…
Maid of Hatfield: the original sources thanks to Abrams…
Mexican Indians Glow in the Dark: Borky gets distracted with radium (and some horrific details!)
Oldest Flame: KMH on Zoroastrianism and Louis and Borky on the Trail of Tears.
Preferring Hell to Heaven: S&B and Chris S with hell jokes
Punishing Suicide: Ricardo and Mike L on countries where suicide is still illegal.
Searching for the Author of ‘Do not Stand at My Grave’: P. gets the ball rolling with some useful negatives and Jimbo corrects John Wayne (and Beach).
Sink or Swim on the Rhine: ANL brings some new evidence to bear
Strange Encounter in Tunisia: Chris S. talks Prester John (intriguing)
Unusual Riots: Janet writes in with the weirdest riot of them all, which somehow I’d missed.
Victorian Venus Spokes: Stewart write on my favourite post ever to share another problem of Venus and eyesight
