Breakfast Links: Week of March 7, 2016
� Was bundling in the winter really less dangerous than a sofa in the summer?
� Be amazed by the many achievements of France's most-decorated woman, Marie Marvingt.
� The bawdy history of medieval playing cards.
� Cow's dung, ash-boughs, and rose petals: how to sleep safely in early modern England.
� The truth about Lady Barrymore, the boxing baroness.
� Image: American author John Steinbeck totally used the "dog ate my homework" excuse.
� "On board the schooner Pilgrim at sea, a prisoner."
� Days before John Adams' inauguration, his wife Abigail was working out the year's farming at home in Massachusetts.
� Waterproof garments in the 19thc.
� St. David meets the Victorians.
� Image: Beautiful flowered shoes that belonged to the Empress Josephine.
� Thirteen women who changed science.
� Edgar Allen Poe writes a story based on a Boston Harbor legend.
� Real-life "Downton Abbey": drudgery, abuse, sexual harassment.
� Making a black ball gown and social change in the 1870s.
� The "Lady Nurse of Ward E" watches the Civil War come to Washington, DC.
� Why are goats associated with the Devil?
� Battle-scarred skull from Culloden now 3D scanned.
� Image: Cats dance in The Witches Cove, a 16thc Flemish painting by a follower of Jan Mandijn.
�A baffling story from Victorian London: a mother arranges for her daughter to marry her stepfather bigamously.
� How to defraud your lord on a a medieval manor.
� The Anti-Slavery Alphabet: 1846 children's book designed to teach the ABC's of slavery's evils.
� The story of lorem ipsum: how scrambled text from Cicero became the standard for typesetters everywhere.
� Just for fun: a quiz to determine how Jane Eyre you are.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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