Breakfast Links: Week of May 16, 2016
� The Swan with Two Necks and other important London coaching inns in early 19thc London.
� The First Children who led sad lives.
� The hidden messages of colonial handwriting.
� The deadly pain medicine sold by skeletons.
� Image: A Victorian book called Pleasing Stories for Pleasant Children naturally begins with King Herod ::shudder::.
� "Novelties that Create Fun" c1920.
� "This faithful machine": the literary history of word processing.
� Who could marry whom - a matter of concern to the law.
� The insults that sparked duels in Alexander Hamilton's America.
� Who let the dogs out?
� Art history project replicates hair styles worn by Porch Maiden caryatids on the Athenian Acropolis.
� Eavesdropping on Weimar: the true story behind the bestseller & movie Grand Hotel.
� Couture copies in America.
� Image: An 18thc snapshot of the grim conditions for bound coal miners in Scotland who have escaped from their master.
� The worst epidemic in 18thc North America (and it's not what you think.)
� Workhouse diets: paucity or plenty? Part two here.
� An important part of the early slave trade, Narragansett Pacers were one of America's earliest and most reliable breeds of horses.
� The biggest cat painting in the world.
� Image: The severed head of Medusa stares out from this 1911 silver-gilt relief.
� Airships over London, in war and in peace.
� A conspiracy unraveled: the murder of Captain Joseph White, 1830.
� Isaac Newton and the apple: the story and the myth.
� Glorious watercolors of tulips, the favorite flower of the 17thc.
� Image: John Adams' "Miss Adorable" letter to Abigail, 1762.
� "Time me, gentlemen": Dr. Robert Liston, the fastest surgeon of the 19thc.
� The flattering tricks of 19thc portraiture.
� A visit to the blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green - an infamous Regency landmark.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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