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🚨 NEW POST: This is what happens when you hire Florida Man as your attorney. #HistoryBlog secondglancehistory.com/clip-of-the-we…
Useful advice from @2GlanceHistory again: after a career change, be careful not to slip back into your old routine.
🚨 NEW POST: This is what happens when you hire Florida Man as your attorney. #HistoryBlog secondglancehistory.com/clip-of-the-we…
"Irish born American engineer John Philip Holland, a bespectacled school teacher by trade...climbed aboard a strange looking craft...and descended below the surface of the Passaic River...he risked his life in an angular sort of tube." creativehistorystories.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-wo…
Today's Weekend Link Dump is full of wisdom: make sure your spouse is dead before they're buried 🪦, do not talk to the Russian spy whales 🐋, and make sure you know which side your lawyer is on ⚖️ (that's me!). strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/weeken…
Weekend Link Dump: Fake deaths, alien abductions, death omens, levitating saints, medicinal leeches & more! strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/weeken…
"All three were found by their husbands dead in bathtubs...drowning in a tub was an exceedingly rare event. Moreover, all three women were married to the same man—one careful to use different aliases." mentalfloss.com/posts/brides-i…
A man nearly manages to name his killer. (Via @_newspapers) strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/newspa…
“Manumitted... yet still unfree: Enslaved people...lived for years in this limbo...in several Northern states during the early Republic. Their extraordinary stories and those of 300 other Black New Yorkers are accessible online for the first time.” smithsonianmag.com/history/remark…
In 15th century Innsbruck, a group of accused witches lawyer up and fight back. strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-wi…
On #NationalSundaeDay, scoop yourself a dish of ice cream and settle in for “as unique a romance as ever a pair of young lovers engaged in.” You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll bang your head against the nearest wall. 🍨 #SundaeDay #ChronAm #HistoryBlog secondglancehistory.com/love-in-the-ti…
History-approved suggestions for #VeteransDay, #ArmisticeDay and #RemembranceDay: ☑️ Attend a ceremony and contemplate the sacrifices of those who lost their lives ☑️ Enjoy a day off work ☑️ Expose etiquette atrocities ☑️ Misplace your pajamas and candles secondglancehistory.com/clip-of-the-we…
The brilliant film "Home Alone" was released #OnThisDay in 1990. However, fearless children, negligent parents and dumb thieves have been around for at least as long as there have been newspapers to chronicle their antics. #OTD #HistoryBlog secondglancehistory.com/home-alone/
"When my grandmother was a little girl and took a shortcut through the woods, she kept her head down..she knew...Baba Yaga preyed upon the young, especially those who didn’t listen, those who broke the rules, those who lived by their own internal compass." atlasobscura.com/articles/who-i…
Happy 177th birthday to Bram Stoker, born #OnThisDay in 1847! 🥳 Along with the novel that spawned a thousand teenybopper vampire romances, he wrote a hagiography of his bestie, featuring epic battles against horses, old shoes and railroad companies. #OTD secondglancehistory.com/brams-buddy/
Weekend Link Dump: Medieval nurses, Iron Age massacres, Ice Age infants, London mice, Frankenstein skeletons, the day it rained cats & more! strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/weeken…
"June 1845. London...Frederick Gowing, known as the 'greatest poacher in England,' was there to explain his business to a House of Commons Select Committee on the Game Laws...he would pull back the curtain on a huge underground economy." daily.jstor.org/frederick-gowi…
"Diedrich Knickerbocker’s disappearance played out over several issues...the term knickerbocker came to refer to a type of person, a type of pants, and a basketball team. Quite a legacy for old Diedrich—especially considering that he didn’t exist." mentalfloss.com/posts/washingt…
The Case of the Homicidal Ghost. (Via @_newspapers) strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/newspa…
"For impossibly wealthy industrialists, Hunt was the architect of choice...For millions of poor...immigrants, his work was among the first things they saw...with the Statue of Liberty standing atop the monumental pedestal he designed." blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/09/ri…
"An Englishman named Sir George Yeardley was likely the first person in the USA to be memorialized with a tombstone...'Colonists were ordering black marble tombstones from Belgium like we order items from Amazon, just a lot slower.'" iflscience.com/americas-oldes…
The mysterious shipboard death of heiress Elizabeth Cook. strangeco.blogspot.com/2024/11/fake-t…
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