Breakfast Links: Week of September 12, 2011

Served up fresh for you: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links, featuring loads of favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse

• ‘United forever’: Queen Victoria’s ring has a diamond and ruby heart, crowned with diamonds, linked her with half-sister: http://bit.ly

• Video of Jacqueline Bouvier and John F Kennedy's wedding celebrated on 12 September 1953 http://bit.ly

• Stripes of yellow,purple, & white - in an 18th c. gown? http://bit.ly

• "London Melodies": marvelous illustrations of street cries from 1823: http://bit.ly

• The Iron Duke in a Black Glass Cameo: wp.me/pPzeJ-Kl

• A love note from Johnny Cash to his wife, June: "The ring of fire still burns around you and I" http://bit.ly

• Did you know that Amelia Earhart designed fashion? http://fb.me/Y

• Unreal! When it comes to jaw-dropping settings, few castles come close to Dunnottar in Scotland: http://ow.ly/6pgFG

• The strange wax effigy of 18th c spinster Sarah Hare: http://bit.ly

• The Importance of 19th c Time-Balls - & why was NYC so slow to get one? http://bit.ly

• The Life of Condemned Massachusetts Witch Rebecca Nurse 1621-1692 - http://bit.ly

• Who painted these boys with bats and ball in the late 1700s? http://ow.ly/6tjb0

• Sightseeing guide to Paris for English & Am. visitors 1869: http://bit.ly

• Extraordinary C17th jewelled toothpick in the V&A: a skull & sickle, symbols of death: http://bit.ly

• Do not glare upon thy snot - advice to gentlemen from 1576 http://bit.ly

• On June 13th, 1920, the U.S. Postal Service ruled that children may not be sent via parcel post http://flic.kr/p

• The most consumed 18th century fruit? Apples beat out gooseberries, cherries by a longshot: http://bit.ly

• In the Name of Fashion: Feathers, Carnage, & Protest in Victorian England: http://bit.ly

• Handsome 18th c miniature of Col. Stewart by Charles Wilson Peale, orig intended for wife's bracelet: http://bit.ly

• Morgan mansion on Madison Ave, NYC, rare 1854 gem survived onslaughts by progress & Lutherans: http://bit.ly
Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898