Strange History
Dreams, signals and riddles: History
Strange History pages that draw on Dreams, signals and riddles, each with the sources shown. Start with Abraham Lincoln's dream of his own death, Admiral Byrd, the polar flights and the 'hollow earth' diary, The Dancing Plague of 1518, The Voynich manuscript.
Events · Dreams, signals and riddlesAbraham Lincoln's dream of his own deathA friend of Abraham Lincoln wrote that, days before he was shot, Lincoln described a dream of a corpse in the White House and a soldier saying the President had been killed by an assassin.Events · Dreams, signals and riddlesAdmiral Byrd, the polar flights and the 'hollow earth' diaryRichard Byrd was a real polar flyer whose 1926 North Pole claim is now doubted, and a 'secret diary' says he flew into a hidden world inside the Earth in 1947, when records put him at the other end of the planet.Events · Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Dancing Plague of 1518In the summer of 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced in the streets for days and weeks and could not stop, and the city council hired musicians to keep them going.Objects · Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Voynich manuscriptA hand-written book full of strange plants, bathing women and star charts, in an alphabet no one has ever read, kept at Yale University.Events · Dreams, signals and riddlesThe Wow! signalIn 1977 an Ohio radio telescope picked up a strong, narrow signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. An astronomer circled it and wrote 'Wow!', and it has never been heard again.
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