I saw these enigmatic so-called ‘Music of the Spheres’ MSS at Edinburgh’s Blackie House Library & Museum. Their tantalising history of ancient Coptic-Egyptian music, hermetic interpretation, & likely fraud is painstakingly reconstructed here BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In 1907 Charles Dawson, who a few years later perpetrated the Piltdown hoax, wrote to the Natural History Museum's Arthur Smith Woodward with the claim that he had seen a sea-serpent in the English Channel. John Evangelist Walsh speculates as to why he did it.

Hester Jonas, a midwife, was beheaded for witchcraft #onthisday in 1635, in the German city of Neuss. A midwife who suffered from epileptic fits, she'd been denounced by neighbours, and tortured until she confessed. #badeurope

So we all want to know about the suspect, but the message (even if this is mistaken identity) is that an act of targeted violence is a shortcut to global fame and having everyone pore over your online writings. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...