Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
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An "infatuated love" ends very badly.
An old man's attempt to marry a teenager also ends very badly.
The birth of the chili cookoff.
A hidden royal trove in Lithuania.
A visit to the Glasgow necropolis.
A visit to Old Globetown.
A bullet-proof U.S. Marshall.
How to make a career out of being a wet blanket and a killjoy. No, I'm not talking about writing this blog. Stop that.
19th century French newspapers were a "tissue of horrors."
A dead Captain and his sunken ship.
That classic true-crime combo: arsenic and insurance money.
In praise of 2,000 year old wine.
Some early attempts at rainmaking.
A landlady's mysterious death.
Europe's horrible winter of 1709.
A town in England is dealing with Mystery Bananas.
Saving the dogs of interwar Britain.
The mystery metal of Atlantis.
Mummies and their ancient tattoos.
What we can learn from singing lemurs.
A metal ring fell from the sky, and nobody seems to know where it came from. Swell.
A strange Neolithic burial.
The mysterious "black books" of Norway.
The tomb of a doctor to the Pharaohs.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a cook's very peculiar death. In the meantime, this is for everyone who's wondered, "Why doesn't she ever post Romanian folk music?"
The finding of the treasure in Lithuania is astounding; they were buried in '39, when Lithuanians must have known they would be swallowed either by Germany or the Soviet Union. It's good that they are unearthed in a free Lithuania. I like the articles about little neighbourhoods, such as Globetown, in big cities; it seems a nice place to live, especially with a pub called the Florists' Arms. Sober Sue certainly had a unique talent (?)... The mystery bananas are just bizarre. Five months of severe winter right across Europe in 1709; I hadn't heard of this. And the tomb of the doctor from the Sixth Dynasty is astonishing: such vibrant colours surviving all that time.
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