Breakfast Links: Week of June 13, 2016
� Circassian bloom: cheek rouge for 18thc and 19thc ladies.
� "My present dreadful situation": the perils of fame as an 18thc actress.
� Tabasco and the war against bland military meals.
� Jane Austen's manuscripts are finally all digitized, and may now be viewed as a whole online.
� Video: If you're a Regency era lady, a new spencer jacket is a great way to spruce up your look for summer.
� Converting Jews to Christianity in Regency England, 1809-1813.
� Lavish lace in the Martha Washington collection at Mount Vernon.
� What spilled ink and fingerprints reveal about medieval manuscripts.
� Soldier newspapers in the American Civil War.
� Epic battles in medieval manuscripts: knights vs. snails.
� Image: Pretty much all you need to know about Victorian children's literature.
� What did it mean to be called an Amazon during World War One?
� Why memes matter for feminism.
� America's mid-century rest stops were real roadside attractions.
� A Coney Island pie-maker invents the hot dog, 1870.
� Built around 1780, this Federal-style house in what is today Chinatown, NYC, managed to survive until the 1920s.
� Image: Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his Chelsea home.
� Eight places associated with the wives of Henry VIII.
� Uncovered in Hyde Park: 165-year-old toilet remains from "spend a penny" exhibition.
� The Endicott pear tree: still alive in Massachusetts after nearly 400 years.
� Blood, controversy, and puddings in early New England.
� Changing concepts of time: art in a speeded-up world.
� Image: Medieval church door in Gloucestershire believed to have been the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's entrance to Moria.
� They marched with torches: getting out the vote, 1840-1900.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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