"The best hotels--and hotel bars--in espionage fiction" were featured in CrimeReads.
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"Eat like an Ancient Greek philosopher" with Deipnosophistae (The Learned Banqueters), describing dinner parties Athenaeus attended in Rome. (via Gastro Obscura)
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Messy Nessy explored the first Birth Control Handbook, written by a group of teenagers in 1968.
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Mental Floss remembered "when Ernest Hemingway walked away from two plane crashes just hours apart."