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  • Beachcombed 59 May 1, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed , trackback

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    Dear Reader,

    Beach is knackered. An appalling month of business, exams and worst of all an audit that has driven Mrs Beachcombing to desperation. There is talk of 40,000 euros to be paid back…. Christ! Yesterday was the last exam, thank the gods, and today a headache and corrections, but almost there. Beach has been a very bad blogger and has not yet put up all the interesting comments from last month. Forgive please. Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Chris, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month. Thanks for all emails too and thanks for all good wishes.

    Beach

    PS all five tortoises are now out.

    403 Cossack Adolescents: on Soviet excesses…

    American Indian Settlers in Iceland? Bruce T on some genetic reflections…

    Ash Magic: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with some supplementary material…

    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 picture…

    Historical Barbies: TB writes in with a serial killer and a devotional Barbie, not history but very good…

    How Islam Created the Italian Renaissance: Opener fighting back for the west…

    Illinois’ Lion Man: Risker and CC on Illinois geography; and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on convicts…

    Man vs Horse: Chris S. on bottom problems…

    Manx Judge and Manx Fairies: Ivo writes in on Falga, good sources too…

    Natator: Mike Dash with the possibility of Natator on the gay scene… [shock]

    Pheidippides and the Myth of the Marathon: Beach’s reply to philological objections…

    Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Invisible notes Saki’s short story…

    Poxless 1492: Some brilliant comments from Chris S, Christy, Louis K, Nathaniel, BT and perhaps most interesting of an interesting bunch Stephen D…

    Searching for Mrs S***k*n*us: BT on the spelling of the name and Filip seems to have found a trace of the correct person….!!!!! but not in a census

    The Campestres, Romano-British Fairies: Lanark brings Cocceius Firmus centre stage..

    The Failure of Appeasement: ANL on Churchill’s culpability in WW1…

    The Hanging Bed: Southern Man on a parallel invention from Padua…

    True Bosom Serpents: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on the uterus serpent…