The Ghost of a Dead Mother Visits Her Baby Mother’s Day is coming up, so I feel obligated to do something on the theme of maternal devotion, since last year I rather savaged Motherhood in a piece on Maternal Influence and Monsters. Prepare to be heart-warmed.
Beethoven’s Tenth: Re-composing a Composer On 30 April, 1895 a new work by Ludwig von Beethoven made its debut: his Tenth Symphony. The Master had a little help from Miss Helen Edith Green, to whom he dictated the music–long after he was dead.
A Lost Heart: Napoleon and the Rats There have been numerous stories—some true, some not–about Napoleon’s death. Today we look look at a Napoleonic body-part rumor: the story that Bonaparte’s heart was eaten by a rat and the heart of a sheep substituted.
The Headless Miner of Scofield The Winter Quarters Mine explosion in Scofield killed at least 200 miners on 1 May 1900; the mine was said to be haunted by the headless ghost of the last victim recovered.
