This is a picture of Dunluce Castle, Co Antrim in the 1880s. Dunluce was in an incredibly state of disrepair but has been shored up a lot in recent years and gets used as the backdrop in a lot of fantasy films.

More importantly it is the only place anyone has ever actually set dogs on me after saying "gerruff or I'll set the dogs on you"

I was quicker when I was in my teens and these days I'd have got eaten by the dogs.

The character in the foreground presumably fights crime.

#oddhistory

In 1814, London Was Terrorized By A 320,000-Gallon Tsunami Of Beer

https://www.iflscience.com/in-1814-london-was-terrorized-by-a-320000-gallon-tsunami-of-beer-76882

#history #englishhistory #britishhistory #ukhistory #WeirdHistory #strangehistory #oddhistory #beer #london #londonbeerflood #flood

A brief, weird history of brainwashing

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/12/1090726/brainwashing-mind-control-history-operation-midnight-climax/

#history #WeirdHistory #strangehistory #oddhistory #americanhistory #ushistory #worldhistory #brainwashing

After the death of Rudolf Hess, its final inmate, Spandau prison was demolished and a supermarket built on the site by the British army to serve troops in Berlin.

Officially this was called the Britannia Centre.

In true squaddie style, however, it soon became known as 'Hesscos' #oddHistory