Breakfast Links: Week of April 18, 2016
� What is dazzle, and how did it influence 20thc fashion?
� "Deserved and received respect": how after twenty-four years as a female, Deborah Lewis transformed into the male Francis Lewis in 18thc Massachusetts.
� Image: Tiles with instructions for gymnastic exercises for young girls, 1840.
� D-Day hero set to marry his first love - 72 years after he first proposed to her.
� Poignant 19thc petitions from mothers hoping to find sanctuary for their illegitimate children.
� A 17thc silk gown with possible royal Stuart connections discovered off the Dutch coast.
� Extreme longevity in the 1700s.
� After centuries of innovation, is the library card dying?
� The sound of the past: Wheatley's Cries of London.
� Image: Warning sign at Yosemite National Park, 1915 - not that it stopped the people on that rock!
� On the trail of the Last Supper.
� Why the hit musical Hamilton is a potent reminder that historians are not the only custodians of history.
� Previously unknown Shakespeare First Folio discovered just lying around a grand Scottish home.
� A shot in the dark? A mysterious find in a bundle of archived papers.
� Image: Tax avoidance, 17thc style: a house built over a river between two jurisdictions.
� The tragic love story of children's illustrator and author Beatrix Potter.
� Lady Hamilton as a bacchante, restored and rediscovered.
� The life of a movie costume after filming is done.
� "Beware of the lascivious tango", warned the Ladies' Home Journal, and these are the boots to prove why.
� Image: Nineteenth century Coca cola contained cocaine, and doctors prescribed it as a "nerve stimulant."
� Where's a witch to rest? Chimney stacks and witches' seats.
� Historical socks and stockings from the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm.
� George Washington's troublesome teeth.
� Image: Fantastic 18thc Polish pulpit.
� William Kidd, the pirate who was framed.
� Book quiz: do you know these last lines of famous novels?
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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