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  Matthew Paris's self-portrait, British Library Royal MS 14 C VII, fol. 6r, the manuscript that contains the 1254 annal Scan

  British Library, via Wikimedia Commons ·from The ship in the sky over Redbourn, seen by the monks of St Albans (1254) (1254)
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  Belon's book on display in the British Library Animals exhibition (2023) Scan

  Mgiganteus1 ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  actually er seen word of a later ns of plants artists ced stake. Monkfish This inaccurate depiction of a monkfish highlights the value of first-hand observation. This publication was the first comprehensive collection of illustrated fish descriptions. The author Pierre Belon's image was based on an …

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  Second view of the British Library Animals exhibition display (2023) Scan

  Mgiganteus1 ·from The Sea Monk of the Øresund (1546)

  Mon frorum superius enumeratorum figuram ac formam quibuldam in locis reperin diderim, if verum est quod de Monacho pifce in Noruegia apud Diezunt appellator pop oppidum Den Elepoch repertum fuisse tradunt:cuius formam sequens figura te docbitit dies vixiffe aiunt, ac nullam vocem edidiffe, praterqu…

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  Report of the poker assault on a woman mistaken for the ghost, 31 March 1883 Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Weekly Irish Times - Saturday 31 March 1883 Image $ \textcircled{2} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment b man for it. I of Bladensburg not responsible will be than andon legislat- it is a matter future either ont would not 11 ned to London. he day in many we …

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  Newspaper clipping, 17 February 1883 Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 17 February 1883 Image $ \textcircled{2} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment that the rave might go to war. is so self-ISBURY to entured to cure some men which reduced once, and and in the government. All would interfered a…

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  Butcher's "Beef, Mutton, Pork!" advert joking about the scare, 9 February 1883 Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 09 February 1883 Image $ \textcircled{3} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment winter here his name has been prominently benighted by the names of Italian. Fifteen years ago he was then reading in San Marco with a wife, who was…

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  Newspaper clipping, 7 February 1883: the carter's court remarks Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Dundee Courier - Wednesday 07 February 1883 Image $ \textcircled{2} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ade in his ted eminent of or their own The facts, racial that nt be League is tion of the which have y in Ireland, he of which . That the the Land is a proposi- as he is, ity in esta…

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  Newspaper clipping, 6 February 1883: the Hilltown carter Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  image $ \textcircled{3} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment position ward for notably spinners are long AN INTOXICATED CARTER AND THE HILLTOWN GHOST. A carter named James Park, residing in Hilltown, was brought before Baile Hunter at the Dundee Police Court t…

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  Police court report on William Anderson, 19 February 1883 Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Image $ \textcircled{c} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment prove umented nebriety able and tem has dificulties of the is there, antleman on the molism." igist, M. erg, the y other sink into e, on an d fifty A GHOST SEIZED. For two or three months back consid…

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  Newspaper clipping, 6 February 1883: the Hilltown ghost report Scan

  strangehistory.net ·from The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83) (1883)

  Image $ \textcircled{c} $ THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Print Download Tag Comment COURT. HOUSE v. BAILIE tance of the Guild Court sh him by a that Bailie on of certain warrant from the adjoiningger of having buildings com-Bailie Philip ing with his A "GHOST" AT LARGE IN DUNDEE. AL…