Breakfast Links: Week of June 6, 2016
� Dick Turpin, 18thc butcher and highwayman.
� America's bloody history: five famous dueling grounds.
� Why these anatomical models of women are not disgusting.
� The heraldry windows of Chawton House Library, here and here.
� How a chemical engineer returned home from World War Two and created a company that led to the...Tunnel of Fudge.
� Photographs that remind us what polio � now nearly wiped out world-wide � once looked like.
� Image: A c1900 bodice with built-in bust enhancers.
� "The Newsboy is a trifle profligate": sketches of New Yorkers from 1840s.
� A gold "safety pin" from the 7thc BC.
� Louisa Catherine Adams, the first and only foreign-born First Lady.
� Will the last person to leave Regency England in 1816 please turn off the light?
� Image: From an 1880 census, Ellen Adams' occupation is "taking it easy."
� Fascinating obituary for Jane Fawcett, who went from being a London debutante to a decoder at Bletchley Park who helped doom the Bismark.
� For Outlander fans: ten things you (probably) didn't know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites.
� A soldier of the Massachusetts line, 1777.
� Star-shaped Sunday school badge honoring Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
� Image: Grand Central Terminal, NYC, by John Collier, 1941.
� What would Britain be like today if Charles II had been captured and executed in the 17thc?
� The murder confession of Mary Voce, 1802, which inspired George Sand.
� Discover the hair industry of the past through a 19thc hairwork buckle.
� Gabrielle d'Estrees, mistress of the French Henri IV.
� Stuck on 1962: the ghost advertisements in London's abandoned underground stations.
� Image: Some days, exactly, c1800.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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