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Here comes this week's Link Dump!
Come on in, the water's fine!
A very good reason not to become an astronaut.
The murder victim who became a fertility symbol.
The hotel with a Duckmaster.
Contemporary newspaper coverage of the 1969 Moon landing.
A cave has been discovered on the Moon.
Ancient Roman medical techniques.
Two real-life deaths that inspired a work of fiction.
Nine facts about the ancient Olympics.
A fascinating Tang dynasty tomb.
Abraham Lincoln in battle.
Something has been making an elaborate pattern for 500 million years, and we're damned if we know what it is.
19th century child funerals.
Futuristic war machines from the late Roman Empire.
Possible evidence of a Neolithic plague.
The graffiti of the Tower of London.
An International Man of Mystery's bad end.
A look at medieval bathhouses.
Why "crickets" has come to mean "silence."
We're not having much luck figuring out why Cahokia was abandoned.
It's possible that Neanderthals didn't really become extinct.
Early humans ate a lot of giant armadillos.
The power of the potato.
When Buddhists go to war.
A Tudor bed and a Northern rogue.
Why they're called "deviled eggs."
A theft at Agra, 1862.
Love divination in Shropshire.
The man who hiccuped for 68 years.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll investigate yet another poisoning mystery. In the meantime, here's a bit of Early Music.
I recall the San Ysidro massacre when it happened; what a terrible event. Mass shootings weren't common then. I'm surprised no one has made a movie or tv series about Lai Teck. He sounds an interesting man, though possibly a frustrating character in a story. Cahokia sounds interesting, too. There seem to be a number of big centres from ancient times that simply were abandoned.
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