Breakfast Links: Week of February 22, 2016
� The enduring appeal behind an iconic Boston painting.
� "Under the influence": mesmerism in England.
� Tickets on the royal dime: a tattered document tells what royal mistress Nell Gwyn saw at the playhouse.
� Skiing through the Depression (and colorfully, too.)
� How the Spirella Corset Company forever changed women's undergarments.
� The latest technology in 1790: George Washington ordered these argand lamps for Mt. Vernon.
� Scottish myths: Wulver the kind-hearted Shetland werewolf.
� Image: 1911 census page where a suffragette refused to complete: "no vote no census."
� How the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was celebrated in India.
� Preserving and displaying a pair of Egyptian curtains from 6th-7thc AD.
� While Charles Darwin was writing hist masterpiece, his children were drawing on it.
� Belinda's petition: how an ex-slave successfully won a case for reparations in 1793.
� Sex in the Middle Ages.
� Eighteenth century families on terraces and out-of-doors in art.
� Image: Waiting for parcels of food, Cheapside, London, 1900.
� Harry Stokes and "female-husbands" of the 1800s.
� How Catherine de Medici made gloves laced with poison fashionable.
� "She was both poxt and clapt together": confessions of sexual secrets in venereal cases.
� Ancient Pompeii lives again as Italian officials unveil six more restored ruins.
� What makes Franz Liszt still important?
� Pocket Books and Liquid Bloom: advertising in the 18thc Lady's Magazine.
� Image: What the Victorians threw away: alphabet cup.
� The strange and mysterious history of the ouija board.
� Scientist Mary Somerville will be the first woman other than a royal to appear on a Scottish banknote.
� Mrs. Abigail Norman Prince and her French evening shoes, 1875-1885.
� Crime keeps you young - or maybe not.
� Pancake Day in the Georgian era.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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