Friday Fun Facts Index
This is an index of all items that have appeared in my Friday Fun Facts posts since January 27, 2012. Click on one of the links below to go to the list of Friday Fun Facts that refer to that book.
OUTLANDER
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
VOYAGER
DRUMS OF AUTUMN
THE FIERY CROSS
A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES
AN ECHO IN THE BONE
WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD
LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER
LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE
LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS
THE SCOTTISH PRISONER
A TRAIL OF FIRE
OUTLANDER
- Amber
- Aubusson rug
- Bannocks
- Black Watch
- Boar's tusk bracelets
- Borage
- Color of a red deer's pelt
- Comfrey
- Coracle
- "Da mi basia mille"
- Dirks
- Dislocated shoulder
- Dovecote
- Dragoman
- Eyebright
- Forget-me-nots
- Freshwater pearl mussels
- Fort William
- Gaberlunzies
- Glencoe Massacre
- Gorse
- Harled stone
- Hedgehogs mating
- Highland cow
- Interior of a broch
- Hemipenes
- Jabot
- Jackdaw
- Jet rosary
- Kelpies and waterhorses
- Monstrance
- Leeches
- L'Heure Bleue perfume
- Loch Ness monster and plesiosaurs
- Mallow roots
- Moonstone
- Mutt and Jeff
- Peach pits and cyanide
- Plant press
- Plover
- Quaich
- Scottish deerhound
- Scottish wildcat
- Shinty
- Smallpox
- Sporran
- St. Sebastian
- Strathspey
- Tawse
- Thistle
- Tickling trout
- Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome
- "Up Among the Heather"
- Witch-prickers
- Woodlice
Back to the Top
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
- Aloe vera
- Arisaid
- Bagpipes
- Basket-hilted broadsword
- Beauly Priory
- Bilboquet
- Bitter cascara
- Black hellebore
- Boucher painting
- Bronzino paintings
- Charles Stuart's picnic set
- Crocodiles in apothecary shops
- Crown vetch
- Cuckoo clock
- Deer fly
- Dragonfly in amber
- Electric fire
- Fans in the 18th century
- Fiacre
- Four Humors of Man (statues)
- Foxglove and digitalis
- Goldberg Variations
- Grapeshot
- Heather
- Hildegard von Bingen
- Hip bath
- Holyrood Palace
- Hyacinth
- Jenny Cameron
- Kabbalah
- Kirk of the Canongate
- Lord Lovat, the "Old Fox"
- Louis XV and Madame Nesle
- Mullein leaves
- Neolithic couple
- Nettles
- Orange Morris Minor
- Orangutan
- Owl pellets
- Percheron horses
- Portrait miniatures
- Prestonpans
- Quicksilver, aka mercury
- Quince jelly
- Rat satire
- Roses, and Claire's reaction
- Rose madder
- Saracen's consound
- Sgian dubh
- Stirling Castle
- Urinoscopy
- Waulking wool
VOYAGER
- A.E. Housman poem
- Anteater
- Arbroath cliffs
- Asafoetida
- Ashness Bridge
- Baboons with red behinds
- Blackthorn berries
- Blind cave fish
- Boundary stone at Carter Bar
- British man o' war
- Cape Wrath
- Coigach
- Copper penny from 1766
- Cuckoo in the nest
- Dark lantern
- Dauco seeds
- "Dry Bones"
- Dunbonnet's cave
- Elecampane
- Epergne
- Fish falling from the sky
- Four-eyed fish
- Foot-binding
- Frigate bird
- Fugu fish and zombies
- Geillis's skull
- Great white pelican
- Greylag geese
- Hardtack or ship's biscuit
- Hawksbill sea turtle
- Healthy balls
- "In the Heather's My Bed"
- Jacobite white rose
- Jamie's printing press
- Lawrence Stern and Laurence Sterne
- Lead type slugs
- Leanach farmhouse
- Loa loa worm
- Manatees
- Mandarin civil servant's rank badge
- Mangroves
- Mayer Rothschild
- Orb-weaver spiders
- Peat fires
- Porpoise
- Port Royal earthquake 1692
- Priest hole
- Puffball mushroom
- Robert Burns poem
- Rose Hall
- Rowan berries
- St. Elmo's fire
- St. Finbar
- Sangria
- Sapphires
- Seasickness
- Snuff box
- "The Sprightly Tailor"
- Tansy
- Tarantula
- Tetradrachm
- Typhoid fever
- Watercress
- Whelks
- The World's End
- Vanilla beans
DRUMS OF AUTUMN
- 1969 blue Ford Mustang
- Aconite
- Bactrian camel
- Brickell's NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA
- Bridies
- Catamount/cougar/mountain lion/panther
- Cinchona bark
- Clan MacKenzie crest
- Commode chairs
- Devil's Stomping Ground
- Easter vigil at Notre Dame
- Edinburgh Tolbooth
- Elderberries
- Froe
- Garnets
- Ginseng
- Gooseberries
- Habetrot the Spinstress
- Handfasting
- "Hey Johnnie Cope"
- Hook prosthesis
- Horse chestnut
- Jamie and Bree and the diamond-shaped mole
- Jamie's handwriting and Lord John
- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
- Longhouse
- Longleaf pine trees
- "MacPherson's Lament"
- Macadam
- Maggots
- Maypop fruit
- Medical chest
- Monty Python "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"
- Morbid sore throat (diphtheria)
- Mountain laurel
- Mowgli and the Red Flower
- Munro bagging
- Musket
- Oak galls used to make ink
- Opal
- Pennyroyal
- Pink tulip and violets
- Polecat
- Porcupines
- Possums
- Rhododendron hell
- Rousseau paintings
- Salt and leeches
- Silkworms and mulberry trees
- Smokehouse
- St. Dismas
- Stede Bonnet
- Tetanus
- "To Anacreon in Heaven"
- Trepanation
- Turpentine production
- Tuscarora
- Valerian
- White piglet
- White Raven
- Willow bark tea
- Wolf-dog crossbreeds
THE FIERY CROSS
- Adso of Melk
- Albino bear
- Amusia
- "The Ants Go Marching"
- Astrolabe
- Beauty marks
- Binocular vision
- "Birnie Bouzle"
- Bison
- Bloodroot
- Butter churn
- Cairngorm gemstones
- Carolina parakeet
- Chaga
- Chestnut mast
- Claire's parents' names
- "Clementine"
- Congenital syphilis
- Corn-husk dolls
- Cricothyrotomy
- Crossed writing in 18th century letters
- Darby and Joan
- Deiseil
- Fleam
- "Flower of Scotland"
- Friesian horses
- Girdling trees
- Gorget
- GREEN EGGS AND HAM
- Hieronymus Bosch
- How bats got their wings
- How to put on a great kilt
- Indigo dye
- James Nayler
- Jamie Telfer ballad
- Jamie's first Christmas gift to Jemmy
- Hermon Husband
- "Bonnie Dundee"
- Hogmanay
- Kewpie doll
- "Killiecrankie"
- Lavender and migraines
- Leading strings
- Lillibulero
- Masonic compass
- Mobcaps
- Mohawk bow
- Mongolian spot
- Moose
- Nannyberry bush
- North Carolina BBQ
- Passenger pigeon
- Penicillin
- Perseus and Medusa statue
- Persimmons and pawpaws
- Petechiae
- Poison ivy
- Portable writing desk
- Quern
- Regulators
- Roger's birthplace
- Scarificator
- Sponges
- Stomacher
- "Summer dim"
- Syllabub
- Tarot card
- Thrush
- Toby jugs
- Tomatoes are poisonous?
- Tongue-rolling
- "Twa Corbies"
- University of Glasgow emblem
- Venus of Willendorf
- Water-pepper
- Wax myrtle berries
- Wild boar
- Window tax
- Yarrow
- Yogi Bear
- Zugunruhe
A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Achondroplasia
- "The African Queen"
- Amoebic dysentery
- Anemone
- Beavers
- Bee gums
- Black Malva shampoo
- Black pudding
- Bodhran
- Boston Massacre
- Brag (card game)
- Branding iron
- Brazier
- Bullet mold
- Cartridge box
- Chrysoberyl
- Corset busk
- Cradleboard
- Declaration of Arbroath
- Dupuytren's incision
- "Eppie Morrie"
- Ether mask
- FANNY HILL
- Fireflies
- Flora MacDonald
- "Folsom Prison Blues"
- Gallberries
- Goats with blueberry-colored tongues
- Gold bars
- Grasshoppers
- Great Wave off Kanagawa
- Groundhog kiln
- Herring boats
- Hookworms
- Hussif
- Iroquois masks
- Jocasta smoking pot
- Laminaria
- Laundry in the 18th century
- Lexington Alarm
- "The Maid Gaed to the Mill"
- Making fire with flint and steel
- Mammoth skeleton
- Marlinspike
- McBurney's spot
- Men's wigs in the 18th century
- Mickey Mouse
- Mockingbird that sounds like Adso
- Moores Creek Bridge
- Moravian pottery
- Moray eel
- Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
- Panther-cap mushrooms
- Paper-making
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pelican distillation apparatus
- Penis syringe
- Perry Mason
- Phosphorus
- Pie safe
- Pinard stethoscope
- Plasmodium vivax
- Pockets
- Polonaise gown
- Pop-it pearls
- Proclamation money
- Roman hypocaust
- Rope beds
- Rotary dial telephone
- Scarlet kingsnake
- Shilling coin
- Silkies
- Smooring a fire
- Solway martyrs
- Swiss army knife
- Tar and feathers
- Thurso
- Timmy's in the well
- Trail of Tears
- Trundle bed
- Tryon Palace
- Video about whisky-making
- Wendigo
- Wild horses on Ocracoke
- Woodears
- Wooden whistle
- Writing with a quill
AN ECHO IN THE BONE
- Abatis
- Aga cooker
- "Animal Nursery Tales"
- Andrew Bell
- Ant rafts
- Aurora Borealis
- Bath hot springs
- Bracken
- Buffalo robe
- Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga
- Buttonwood Agreement
- Caltrop
- Carmina Gadelica
- Corrimony Cairn
- Chambered nautilus
- Daniel Morgan
- Death of Brig. Gen. Simon Fraser
- Diana and parentheses
- Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Dunbonnet's cave
- Fort Ticonderoga
- Fortune-teller
- Gigging frogs
- Glutton, or wolverine
- Great blue heron
- Gum arabic
- Hairstyle with sailing ship
- Hammerhead shark
- Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
- Hippopotami
- Hogsheads
- Impressment
- Jamie's baby brother
- Jamie's hand with missing finger
- Jane McCrea and the scalping
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanagea)
- Jugum Penis
- King George VI
- Tadeusz Kościuszko ("Kos")
- Laudanum
- Ley lines
- Loch Errochty and "Tunnel Tigers"
- Lord Charles Grey and Paoli
- Mandrill
- Mattock
- Mischianza
- Molly Stark
- Mumps
- "My Nut-Brown Maiden"
- Netsuke
- Nuckelavee
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Oenomancy
- Old High St. Stephen's church
- Ostrich
- Phantom limbs
- Pitlochry Dam
- Red stag belling
- Rh incompatibility
- "Sixteen Tons"
- Spanish conquistador's helmet
- Springhouse
- Spontoon
- Spurtle
- Stubbs paintings
- Subclavian artery
- Swamp video
- "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell and the Drells
- Tranquil Teal
- Transverse lie
- Weather gauge
- Westminster Confession
- White deer
WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD
- Amaranthus
- Frenulum
- Old Tennent Church
- Pokeweed
- Phrygian cap
- Scots Dumpy chickens
- "Spirit of '76" painting
LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER
LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE
- Automaton
- Dachshunds
- Duke of Buckingham portrait
- Foundling Hospital in London
- Frederick the Great
- French grenadier
- "Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn"
- Perseid meteor shower
- Roc's egg
- Rush dip
- St. Margaret's church in Westminster
- South Sea Bubble
- Horace Walpole
- Warming pan
- Whirligig
- White's Chocolate House
LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS
THE SCOTTISH PRISONER
- 18th century shoe buckles
- Amplexus
- Athlone Castle
- Bog butter
- Bran mash for horses
- Bridle with snaffle bit
- Cave bear
- Folly
- Fridstool
- Great Lord Frog and Lady Mouse
- Inchcleraun
- Iroquois war club
- Jamie measures distances with his middle finger
- Leyden jar
- Oast house
- Oranges studded with cloves
- Picquet
- Powder horn
- Puce
- Punch and Judy
- Sedan chairs
- Tower of London
- Wild Hunt
- Yule log
A TRAIL OF FIRE
- 1943 Bethnal Green tube station disaster
- Battle of Quebec
- Blue vitriol
- Calendar change in 1752
- Catacombs of Paris
- Chalice and paten
- Comte St. Germain
- Dueling pistols
- Electric eels
- Fireships
- John Cinnamon connection
- Krait
- MID medal from WWII
- Mile-castle 37 of Hadrian's Wall
- Parrots in Jamaica
- Sailor Malan
- Spitfires used for photo-reconnaissance
- WWII RAF dog tags
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