Breakfast Links: Week of September 19, 2011

Here’s a fresh offering of this week’s Breatkfast Links, noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and museums that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:

• The contents of a woman's bag, 1940 edition: http://bit.ly

• The over-the-top 1901 NY Yacht Club, with galleon windows, sea monsters, & stone waves: http://bit.ly

• Fascinating medieval ring incorporates a wolf’s tooth & charms against toothache & storms: http://bit.ly

• Barbara Bush once criticised The Simpsons as "the dumbest thing [she'd] ever seen." Marge replied: http://bit.ly

• News from the Dead': The Execution & Resuscitation of Anne Green' - http://wp.me/p1

• Gibson Girls in love! From the Museum of the City of NY:http://bit.ly

• Young Queen Victoria had a difficult childhood -learn more in this video featuring Chief Curator Lucy Worsley: http://youtu.be/AFdR

• Fantastic statue of her on the Cape: Mercy Otis Warren 1728-1814 Revolutionary War chronicler: http://bit.ly

• What do a 1940s Adrian blouse and a 1970s Halston dress have in common? http://fb.me/1c

• Dublin Front Doors - Flickr slideshow - http://bit.ly

• In 1671 Colonel Blood tried & failed to steal the Crown Jewels. How did he survive such a treasonous act? http://www.historytoday.com/nigel-jones/blood-theft-and-arrears-stealing-crown-jewels

• Great photos: The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibition, http://wp.me/pGJsu-1MG

• Clearly all careers require corsets: Women of the Future, 1902 - http://tinyurl.com/

• Coronation of King George III, this day 1761. Read all about it! http://post.l

• Advice for Am. & British tourists to Paris 1869: Avoiding "the uncouth boldness of the streetwalker", other dangers: http://bit.ly

• The Reichstag Nazi flag that became Beatrice Jackman’s red evening dress: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2040004/War-heroine-91-sells-dress-Nazi-flag-liberated-soldier-fianc--buy-flatscreen-TV.html

• Looking at an eighteenth-century pistol acquired for Ham House: http://bit.ly

• Meet William Innys: book-seller, rabble-rouser, & the 18th c Centenary Club's most loveable drunk: http://bit.ly

• A Necklace Jane Austen May Have Coveted (and Liz Taylor wore) http://wp.me/pG

• Embroidered velvet coat, Marshall & Snelgrove Ltd (retailers), 1895-1900: http://fb.me/16

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898