Breakfast Links: Week of April 11, 2016
� Behind the music: the story of a rare and beautiful three-piece man's court suit.
� Conde Nast to release thousands of unpublished fashion photographs from its archives of Vogue and Vanity Fair.
� The hidden history of maps made by women.
� Why slaves' graves matter.
� Women's work: depictions of idealized women and labor on paper currency.
� The amazing story of Dorothy Levitt, holder of the world's first water speed record.
� Image: Now this is a regal signature - zoom into see the signature of Elizabeth I.
� Midwives, abortion, and the Offenses Against the Person Act of 1861.
� You don't want to know: the mystery of "French kid" gloves, 1858.
� Microbiologists find Hannibal's route through the Alps, a crossing made 2,000 years ago.
� Joseph Crouch: "a Body Snatcher since a child."
� After 36 years of hunting, archivists finally found the Wright Brothers' airplane patent.
� Marbled madness.
� The mysterious Thelma X and the struggle of black domestic workers.
� Image: "The Dinner Horn" a wood engraving by illustrator and artist Winslow Homer.
� Fifteen characters by Charles Dickens with really silly names.
� At the center of a difficult and contested marriage: Ingeborg of Denmark, a 12thc Queen of France.
� Photographs of a vanishing world: the disappearing post offices of the rural South.
� Graves with a view: exploring the picturesque burial grounds of the Isle of Mull.
� New insight into Shakespeare's life revealed through scientific analysis of his will.
� Image: From 1874: train schedules were much more complicated to decipher before time was standardized.
� A favorite topic of ours: Queen Victoria was NOT the first bride to wear white.
� The English earthquake of 1580 had a moral and religious dimension that far outweighed the damage it caused.
� The peculiar history of celebrity dolls.
� Poisons, potions, and charms in Shakespeare's plays.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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