Just like the Easter Bunny, we’ve gathered up a basketful of fresh Breakfast Links for your amusement. Here are this week's favorites from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and sundry curiosities from around the Twitterverse:
• Lovely tradtion for the holiday: Easter buns, sailors, & a Victorian mother's faith in her son's return: http://bit.ly/horeiU
• Winterthur Museum acquires one of the earliest known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny: http://bit.ly/h8SQI4
• Winterthur Museum acquires one of the earliest known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny: http://bit.ly/h8SQI4
• Charlotte Brontë was born 195 years ago on 21 April. http://bit.ly/hL33X4
•To-die-for jewels from VanCleef & Arpels, from 1906 onward: http://ow.ly/4oT7X
• Just in time for Easter Week: Hot cross buns in 18th c England: http://bit.ly/dLsMjY
• Behind the scenes look at making 'Napoleon & Empire of Fashion' catalog/book from recent costume exhibition: http://bit.ly/fVdWuv
• Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier marry today in 1956 http://bit.ly/gQM7xZ
• Jane Austen and American painter Benjamin West: http://t.co/qYt
• Death of Lord Byron, on this day, 1824; news reached The Times, May 15 http://twitpic.com/4mtv3a
• 'Banner ladies': An intriguing series of advertising cabinet cards by photographer Mrs. G.M. Bowen http://bit.ly/dUijF9
• Jack Ketch: Bodgy Axeman: http://t.co/xRQSFqm the notorious Restoration executioner.
• Like writing? Like cats? Then you'll love this: http://cl.ly/67yG
• The Rolling Stones Rice Krispies commercial (1964). This precise level of selling out seems good for humanity. http://bit.ly/i7pSwU
• A story of a Royal hideaway, Lily Langtry & Wallis (and glimpse of Dartmoor Prison): http://bit.ly/fyYUyX
• Teeny tiny Shakespeare: In honor of his upcoming birthday, some miniature Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/gxCozo
• Protecting against amatory advances: an interesting explanation for the symbolism of a medieval brooch in the V&A: http://bit.ly/eh9sMA
• Gaudy garden promises: Spring is here...Seed catalogues from the Smithsonian libraries - http://bit.ly/eV0932
• “She Threads Her Way...With an Unconscious Air” London’s Most Famous Prostitute, ‘Skittles’ http://bit.ly/gaHfeo
• See all the secrets of an 18th c French lady's table/desk unlocked & revealed in this video: http://getty.us/i3FjF9
• Video of the royal wedding dresses of Queen Victoria & others kept at Kensington Palace: http://is.gd/JXzbNB
Grace Kelly was gorgeous in her dress. I'm a bit surprised though that Ranier would exact a dowry from her and then turn around and buy her a yacht that must have cost twice as much. To think, her father wouldn't have had to pay Cassini a thing! ;o)
ReplyDeleteThanks for another morning of time spent well.