Breakfast Links: Week of April 25, 2016
� Ownership and imprints: famous hands and famous gloves.
� Even a genius has to sell himself: the remarkable resume of Leonardo daVinci.
� Wealthy boys from Eton who were accustomed to getting their own way: The Eton College Riot, 1818.
� "I don't know whether to kiss you or spank you": a half-century of fear of an unspanked woman.
� Image: 17thc blocks for printing playing cards.
� The golden age of the classic high heel: Ferragamo, Vivier, and the stiletto.
� The extraordinary life of Marianne North, Victorian explorer, naturalist, and painter.
� A history of virility, and why it's different (and maybe better than) mere manliness.
� Blue men, the bean-nighe, and a brownie: more mythical creatures of Scotland.
� Image: Postcard of American tourists in Europe, 1910.
� Why the colors you see in an art museum can't be replicated today.
� Why there's nothing vanilla about vanilla.
� An early 19thc church in Manhattan's Henry Street still retains its slave galleries.
� Painstaking portraits of 19thc dermatology patients.
� Image: Central dome of the 1889 Paris World's Fair Gallery of Machines - the world's largest interior space at the time.
� Could the Broadway smash Hamilton keep a woman's face off the $10 bill?
� The secret history of the Civil War photo at the center of the black confederate myth.
� Egyptian blue, the oldest known artificial pigment.
� Only a year after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, Mrs. Irwin wears an "earthquake costume" to a party.
� A tale of two 18thc patriots from Salem, MA.
� For an editor in 1800, the best way to document a brutal local murder was to publish an epic poem about the crime.
� Image: Good luck using this 19thc tax calculator.
� Long (but interesting!) read: conversations and chimney-pieces: the role of the hearth in 18thc British portraiture.
� Watch 65 of Charlie Chaplin's films free online.
� Presidential inaugurations: national unity and partisan poking.
� Is Longfellow's famous poem about Paul Revere's ride really a call to 19thc abolitionists?
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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