Breakfast Links: Week of August 15, 2016
� Three hellish places from London's past that you wouldn't want to visit.
� The bridges of Old London.
� A scandalous divorce: the two Mrs. Fenollosas.
� Where is King Henry VIII buried and why doesn't he have a tomb?
� DIY fashion continues to thrive at the McCall Pattern Company, founded in 1863.
� Image: Jane Austen finishes writing Persuasion on August 6, 1816 - and here's a page of the manuscript.
� "The pink of fashion": Mrs. Andrew Hamilton visits SweetBriar in Philadelphia, 1818.
� The many loves of Henry Tufts, the original colonial bad boy.
� How left-handed penmanship contests tried to help Civil War veterans after amputations.
� Paris, city of lights, romance, and urinals.
� Image: 2000-year-old Greek mosaic floor accidentally discovered in Turkey (and it's a beauty.)
� Mayhew's street traders of London, 1851.
� Stunning interpretations of El Greco portraits created with yarn, a loom, and an algorithm.
� Countess Leonor D'Oeynhausen, an 18thc poet and intellectual possibly involved in espionage.
� 1926 meets 1776 at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial.
� From the suffragettes to BLM: the unexpected ways that protestors have utilized fashion.
� Image: The 19thc Egyptian House in Penzance makes even the Brighton Pavilion look demure.
� The nostalgic glow of NYC's remaining historic neon signs.
� A short illustrated history of firefighting helmets.
� Occupational hazards: the maladies of early modern midwives.
� Who shot Edward Vyse? The Corn Law Riots of 1815.
� Image: A Victorian anti-drowning device.
� Bonded by love and liver: the story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng.
� How many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in places other than the state they represented in the Continental Congress?
� We love a ducky story with a happy ending.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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