Breakfast Links: Week of July 4, 2011

With Independence Day to begin the week, this selection of Breakfast Links has a definite patriotic flavor.  But you’ll also find everything from 16^th c. armour to 20^th c. suffragettes in our collection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, and news stories from around the Twitterverse.

• Amazing 360 degree view of the Royal Pavilion's Great Kitchen: http://ow.ly/5w6HA

• Early 4th of July celebrations at the White House by Thomas Jefferson, others: http://bit.ly/jCGQMU
• A special treat on 18th c American dining tables (at least on George Washington's): robins! http://bit.ly/b2dffP

• Modern myth that needs debunking:African-American quilts used as secret codes by slaves on 19th c Underground Railroad: http://bit.ly/lLYwSr

• They certainly don't look like dangerous criminals: Suffragette Surveillance, 1913 - http://tinyurl.com/6y8nho2

• Currier, Carrier, Cottager: Occupations of the past: http://bit.ly/pcMyeG

• Gold script, rich and complex interlace; a magnificent example of Ottonian illumination http://ow.ly/5uCD6

• Some great seaside snapshots, taken in 1920s Ireland - http://wp.me/pd5mr-uD

• These shoes are made for dancing - and for music hall performer Kitty Lord (1920s) http://bit.ly/mSst9k

• An extraordinary French memento mori ivory rosary pendant, c.1500: http://bit.ly/qGydyU

• The inkily dark history of the Parc des Buttes Chaumont: http://t.co/B6p279D

• The Gilded Age lives on: A luxurious marble townhouse c1901 on NYC's Riverside Drive can be yours for $61.9 million! http://bit.ly/ptXipF

• For the best-dressed 16th c warrior: Costume Armour, German, c.1525 http://bit.ly/nVMxpW

• Much better than staring a computer screen on a summer day! Victorian ladies in fancy dresses go boating: http://tinyurl.com/3z3ke7g

• Have you no scruples? Understanding your 18th c apothecary's prescription. http://post.ly/2M8db

• The lunch counter as a vexed symbol in U.S. cultural history: http://bit.ly/owCxK2

• A history of pie and mash - Londoners and their eel pies! http://bit.ly/oM8Uga
• Some wonderful images of Marie Antoinette's Chateau, the Petit Trianon http://bit.ly/qxkHVX