Welcome to this week's Link Dump!
The Strange Company team wishes you a happy Valentine's Day!
The use of drugs in ancient Egypt.
The diary of an 1870s Manhattan schoolboy.
The original meaning of "spinster."
How the British Empire changed food consumption.
A new theory about how the Great Pyramid was built.
A 5,300 year old drill.
A look at "Vinegar Valentines."
Hannibal Lecter, antihero. (Some years ago, while idly channel-surfing, I came across the middle of "Silence of the Lambs." Within about two minutes, I saw something--I thankfully forget what--that caused me to shriek and quickly change the station. If there is a Hell, it probably plays that film 24/7.)
When coffee was illegal.
Yet another marriage ends in murder.
Ancient Roman medicine may have included...things you wouldn't expect to pick up at the Walmart pharmacy.
Some fatal Valentines.
A possible link between space weather and earthquakes.
Chinese civilization may be older than we thought.
Paging Graham Hancock!
Some mysterious deaths in Bulgaria.
A reworked portrait of Anne Boleyn.
Reconstructing the faces of famous composers.
The mystery of an abandoned Welsh village.
The hidden tunnels of Venus.
What (might) have inspired "Wuthering Heights."
The presidents who had notable non-presidential careers.
The little that we know about Shakespeare's wife.
Tragedy at Wolf Creek.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll visit a very sinister village. In the meantime, here's a bit of '60s pop.
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