Richard Bartholomew

Well that's knackered David Mitchell's latest Observer column.

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

Who is Luigi Mangione: What we know about healthcare CEO shooting suspect The 26-year-old has been charged with murder in connection to last week's New York killing.

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...

#Darragh

I loved the hilarious Satanic choir in Omen IV.