No. 506
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
January 16, 2021
"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan MandijnWelcome to our Friday Link Dump!Where everyone is guaranteed a good time!Why the hell was Stonehenge built?Napoleon's last years, as described by his doctor.Don't try to steal a kiss from a maid who knits.A death at the Tower of London.Second hand hearses.Some handy tips for the next time you have to scrub thousands of years of bird poop from an
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Strange Company - 1/15/2021
Surprising news broke tonight of the listing for sale of the popular bed & breakfast, open as a business for …
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Lizzie Borden : Warps & Wefts - 1/10/2021
Ripley's Believe It Or NotUnknown newspaper1937Jeff Smith collection
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OAPY SMITH'S SKULL
STRANGE MONUMENT TO "SOAPY" SMITH
Famous Bad Man of the Klondike, Fashioned from natural rock 25 feet high.
On Moore's old wharf, alongside the bay and the railroad dock in Skagway, Alaska is an impressive wall of solid granite that is home to one of the most unique art
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 1/14/2021
Youth With Executioner by Nuremberg native Albrecht Dürer … although it’s dated to 1493, which was during a period of several years when Dürer worked abroad. November 13 [1617]. Burnt alive here a miller of Manberna, who however was lately engaged as a carrier of wine, because he and his brother, with the help of […]
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ExecutedToday.com - 11/13/2020
Luella Mabbitt.
Luella Mabbitt and Amer Green made a handsome couple. 23-year-old Luella was an attractive, well-formed young lady—“of the blonde type of beauty and very winning in her ways.” Amer Green, 34-years-old, was tall and good-looking with manly features. But Luella’s father, Peter Mabbitt, did not approve of his daughter’s suiter, so, reluctantly, Luella told Amer that they had to
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Murder by Gaslight - 1/9/2021
alias: GEO SCHWENECKE
The building of Central Park began in 1858. Later that year, the first section opened to the public: the “skating pond,” aka the Lake. You’ve probably seen paintings and illustrations of 19th century New Yorkers ice skating in Central Park and on the ponds of Brooklyn. But this Currier & Ives lithograph (after a painting […]
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Ephemeral New York - 1/11/2021
[Editor’s note: Guest writer, Peter Dickson, lives in West Sussex, England and has been working with microfilm copies of The Duncan Campbell Papers from the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The following are some of his analyses of what he has discovered from reading these papers. Dickson has contributed many transcriptions to the Jamaica Family […]
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