Saturday, April 22, 2017

Breakfast Links: Week of April 17, 2017

Saturday, April 22, 2017
Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The day in 1881 when the mastodons left the British Museum.
• "We lost our appetite for food": why 18thc hangriness might not be a thing.
• How a generation of consumptives defined 19thc romanticism.
Samuel Adams, "Curer of Bacon"?
• The 1906 menagerie on Bleeker Street, NYC.
Image: The Queen's House Tulip Stairs are the first
geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in the U.K.
• The secret family of the Duke of Wellington's nephew.
• When Bram (Stoker) met Walt (Whitman.)
• Pioneering French midwife Angelique du Coudray.
• The 12thc Irish Cross of Cong was made to encase a fragment of the True Cross.
• Countering war-time fabric shortages: keeping khaki kool during World War One.
Image: Fifty years ago organizers tried to keep Katherine Switzer from running the Boston Marathon because she was a woman; this week, at 70, she ran it again.
• Memories of 1775: "About one o'clock, the minute men were alarmed."
• Snapshots of Victorian seaside life.
• "You are so saucy": John Adams replies to his wife Abigail's famous "remember the ladies" letter, April, 1776.
LIFE magazine's mysterious quarter, and the Birth of a Baby, 1938.
• Joseph Priestley of Birstall, UK invented the rubber eraser 247 years ago this week.
Image: Wool and rainbow-striped woman's festival costume shoes from Mexico, c1932.
• "When that April with his showers sweet....": Chaucer's Canterbury Tales may have taken place this week in April.
• Some things never change: in 1743, undergraduate James Otis wrote this letter to his father to ask for money for commencement expenses and sundry "entertainments."
• What sadly happens when you store gunpowder in the over, "out of the Way of Children", 1757.
• Built by Vikings, medieval Irish monks, or Native Americans? Six mysterious stone structures in New England.
Deadline, and seven other words that originated during the American Civil War.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection

2 comments:

Karen Anne said...

I get a database error on the stone structures link, but it is in google's cache. I hope this works:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gHSMpPbRQlcJ:www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/six-mysterious-stone-structures-new-england/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Susan Holloway Scott said...

Karen Anne ~ Hmm...I just tried the link to the "Six Stone Structures" and it worked for me. I'm sorry you had difficulty with it - sometimes the internet does work in mysterious ways!

 
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