Breakfast Links: Week of May 2, 2016
� When booklovers guarded their prized possessions with tiny works of art.
� Were the Victorians healthier?
� Frolicsome engines: the long prehistory of artificial intelligence.
� Expenses, 1774: the cost of living and the cost of giving.
� Egyptian mummies in tartan?
� Medieval "proof" that Star Wars happened (maybe).
� Walking and skipping: how Edwardian footballers trained.
� Image: When a lady is corseted and nature calls....
� Duart Castle: the turbulent history of the ancestral home of Clan Maclean.
� Fearless photographs of the first tornado chasers, 1890s.
� These shoes once stomped out the rhythm of Los Angeles.
� Is Thomas Jefferson the most over-rated of the Founding Fathers?
� A 19thc map of our "square and stationary" Earth.
� Saucy escort cards were a way to flirt in Victorian era.
� Punch and Judy still live on in London's Covent Garden.
� Image: Cancan boots, c1900-1920.
� A 1900 advertisement for bicycles for women made a daring claim.
� Medieval textiles: Italian silks and velvets.
� "That country is my country": Loyalism and 18thc maps of British America.
� Rate this 1860s dress and all its flowers and swags.
� Napoleon's napkin from the Island of Elba, 1815.
� Bathing in an age of extravagance: make your own 17thc scented washball.
� Image: New rates for traveling the Thames in 1803.
� A forgotten plague: making sense of medieval dancing mania.
� A bottle with a message tossed into the sea in 1906 is finally recovered.
� Canoeing fashion in 1903 and the United States Postal Service.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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