Beachcombed 82 April 1, 2017
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Dear Reader,
Sad month, the suicide, on another continent, of one of Beachcombing’s old and beloved aupairs: she sat in a car and gassed herself. No words. You haven’t lived in the twenty-first-century until you’ve read a memorial board on Facebook. ‘I once met ‘Jenny’ for an hour in a youth hostel in Paris…’
The only good news has been that all six tortoises are now out and breathing: no casualties there at least.
There follow the most interesting words sent in to StrangeHistory. Thanks to all contributors and linkers… Have a warm April, soak up the vitamin D, and shrug off the winter.
Beach
Catching an Airship: Andrew with airship tales…
Circus Duel: Brian with an amazing image…
Early Alien Encounter: Andrew on science fiction…
Edith Turner Meets the Blob: Bruce T on spirit healing…
Exploding Pipes: Bruce and Gary V on the pipe joke…
Granddad Became a Seal: Leif with an article and WDR with puffins…
In Search of Medieval Pain: Invisible on a new book…
In Search of the Anomaly Gap: Mike Dash contests and Beach parries…
Killer Rabbits: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a dangerous rabbit…
Nineteenth-Century Gravegoods in Somerset: Bruce T on modern grave goods…
Phoenician Sun God in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Floodmouse brings in Machen…
Shiatsu and Hallucinations: Lots of interesting emails here…
Snakes and Sleeping Humans: several emails and a horrific video
Socrates Criminal: Nathaniel with an earlier Christ example…
The Egg Ring: Brian with some great parallels and Ruth in WA with an expert opinion…
The Eternal Mystic: Leif on definitions and Ruth in WA on girls…
The Last Italian Emirate: LTM plays the Albanian card…
The Train, the Turnip, the Knife and the Girl: Brian and Gary make the case for a 19C meme…
Three Sheep Killers: Bob and Floodmouse with fiction and fact…
Transvestite Vicar Ghost in Interwar England: Invisible with another joker…
Udder Snakes: Dustin on fleshy udders…
Vulva Bread: Anonymous on Japanese equivalents…
Were Ancient or Modern Soldiers More Likely to Die? Kevin B broadens the argument…
When God Spoke in a Wind: Bruce T and Leif, Bruce goes west, Leif goes north…
