Breakfast Links: Week of July 18, 2016
� How the corset turned into a girdle, 1900-1919.
� The now-forgotten "girl mayors" of the 1920s became the first face of feminism.
� Keeping khaki-kool during World War One.
� Baunscheidt's Lebenswecker: the 19thc "life-awakener" (and now considered fraudlent.)
� The peculiar history of cows in the OED.
� Video: Short video of magnificently embroidered early 20thc evening dress.
� The (almost lost) art of handwriting.
� How and when did the thirteen colonies learn of the Declaration of Independence?
� Image: 19thc purse made from hundreds of melon seeds.
� Magical photographs of fireflies in Japan.
� The rich and fascinating history of dhaka muslin.
� Ten strangest deaths of Roman emperors.
� Descendants of a South Carolina plantation owner and slaves unite to have dinner together 181 years later.
� The 18thc anatomist who celebrated life with dioramas of death.
� Image: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White sets up camera on a gargoyle on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, 1934.
� Cleopatra's Needle: how an Egyptian obelisk ended up by the Thames.
� "An extraordinary delivery of rabbits": how Mary Tofts convinced doctors she'd given birth to rabbits, 1726.
� Creating La Dolce Vita in post-war Italy.
� The surprisingly raucous home life of James and Dolley Madison.
� Why women led anti-suffrage movements against themselves.
� Silk-dyers in 18thc London.
� Image: Women's day at the free public bathing house in the East River, NYC, 1876.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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