Murder – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

French and Russian cavalry rode backwards in retreat?!

This claim helped defeat Valentine Shortis’ insanity plea at his murder trial in 1895-6, but was it true?

En avant marche: General Hulin's horse flees his troops as the allies approach, 1814/03/30. Source: <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1336768&partid=1&searchText=horse+backwards&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>British Museum</a>.

Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden

This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky. This and more on FollowTheBaldie.com‘s customised hiking tours.

Bloody Galicians

But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?