Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
We have tea!
A marriage ends with a murder/suicide.
"Through thick and thin" was originally used literally.
How prehistoric humans survived a supervolcano.
Why we call them "dive bars."
So maybe deflecting asteroids isn't such a great idea.
An extinct human species who appear to have buried their dead.
You will be pleased to hear that scientists spend their time staring at their fingernails and getting bats drunk.
The grave of a woman who never existed.
Photos of the markets of Old London.
Related: Some lost London taverns.
We just found the world's oldest known mummies, and wouldn't you know they'd be in the last place you'd look.
The buried treasure in China's Terracotta Army.
Nuns on the run!
The enslaved chocolatier who helped save George Washington.
How the Japanese find missing cats. They ask nicely.
The strange story of an author who chose death over revisions.
An assortment of Weird Wills.
Robert Baddeley's Twelfth Night cakes.
Rethinking part of the fall of the Roman Empire.
A Gilded Age childhood of "zany confusion."
So maybe it's aliens after all. (A side note: my problem with the "panspermia theory" has always been "OK, smart guys, so who created the aliens?")
The role of the British House of Lords in the Victorian era.
The FBI agent and the psychic who solve crimes together.
A description of the funeral of Elisabeth of Austria.
The Romanov photographs of Anna Vyrubova.
Charles James Fox's "Whig rump."
And, finally, RIP the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol," which has to be one of the greatest job descriptions ever.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at one very bizarre family saga. In the meantime, here's Sarah Vaughan.
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