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-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

3rd: Puccini's La bohème from Latvian National Opera & Ballet. Featuring Inga Šļubovska-Kancēviča, Dmytro Popov, and Katrīna Paula Felsberga. Free!

3rd: Fantasy & Fairytales from the Royal College of Music and Tête à Tête. World premieres of five mini operas from RCM composers, singers, and instrumentalists. Free!

4th: Wagner's Die Walküre from Bayerische Staatsoper. Featuring Miinna-Liisa Värelä, Nicholas Brownlee, and Joachim Bäckström. Free (with registration)!

9th: Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten from Festival Aix-en-Provence. Featuring Vida Miknevičiūtė, Michael Spyres, Ambur Braid, and Nina Stemme. Free!

10th: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra from Dutch National Opera. Featuring George Petean, Federica Lombardi, and Georg Zeppenfeld. Free!

11th: Mozart's Die Zauberflote from Festival Aix-en-Provence. Featuring Ying Fang, Mauro Peter, Sabine Devieilhe, and Sean Michael Plumb. Free!

12th: Bellini's I Puritani from the Metropolitan Opera. Featuring Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee, and Ricardo José Rivera. Geolocked to US IPs. Will also air on PBS member stations (times vary). Free!

📻 Audio Spotlight: Many of the productions from Festival Aix will be broadcast for free on France Musique.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Burials of female warriors,Jrapi, Shirak, Armenia from 8th to 6 BC.