Curious Chronicles

A heavy snowstorm was blowing around the town of Moffat, on 1 February 1831.  The Mail Coach from Dumfries pulled up at the Star Inn, in the small town, laden with 100 pounds of mail and a few passengers.  In charge of the coach was Guard James McGeorge and Driver John Goodfellow.  They were all…

  Putting a Corpse on Trial – The Cadaver Synod of 897AD   Formosus was elected pope on 6 October 891. This was right in the middle of a period that was marked by a rapid succession of pontiffs. These brief papal reigns were often the result of the political machinations of local Roman factions.…