Breakfast Links: Week of October 10, 2011

Just for you: another fresh offering of this week’s Breakfast Links, noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and museums that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse: 

• Quilt with a message by 19th c. American quilter Emily Holbert: http://ow.ly/6Y0Cj Plus a historical mystery: http://ow.ly/6Y0BL

• These should come back! Posing on a paper moon - http://bit.ly/ndbnuZ

• Mountmaker's challenge: how to display beautiful embroidered 1870s jacket worn by Princess of Wales:http://bit.ly/pl6O7M

• 18th c recycling, but in the kitchen: recipe for Chicken Surprise uses leftovers: http://bit.ly/qaDTJa 

• The Green Cathedral: Interpretation of Paris’ Notre Dame in Treeshttp://zite.to/r5jkIW

• 'A Remarkable Birthday Present: The Corpse of Thomas Parr (1483 – 1635)' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-oO

• Sadly 'accidentally leaping into a pond' was not the only peril of early railway travel. http://bit.ly/oG1oEu

• Perfect in every way: This is how you write a love letter: http://bit.ly/nH5eZW

• 'Wambling Trot' & 'Quavering of the Kidneys': ailments treated by quack "doctors" in Georgian Englandhttp://bit.ly/qPMi7d

• Gorgeous, delicate late 18th c painted ivory fan up for auction this week: http://bit.ly/qi1TiI

• Edison vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry: http://bit.ly/qYeB0v 

• The story behind the WWII camouflage colours:http://bit.ly/o973eG

• Mogg Pocket Map of London, 1806 -http://is.gd/03jduo

• Inventory of Harewood House, 1795, reveals details of taste & personal habits, plus contents of each room: http://bit.ly/rtmfJr

• Original Central Park Garden was lost 1868 pleasure garden in heart of NYC: http://bit.ly/qZ9oEa

• Ooooh feathers! Fashion in Motion: 1950s hairstyles in San Mateo, Ca http://bit.ly/qyuhLb

• Why is there a tiger instead of a manatee on my cereal box? History of food packaging in Americahttp://ow.ly/6WwMp

• The Unicorn Is Found: Use the new zoom see every splendid feature of this beloved tapestry from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://met.org/oa2YeA

• Executed 14 October 1767: William Guest, coin shaver http://bit.ly/qxhktb

• The Nelson Mourning ring - only 56 were ever made. See it displayed at Soho House until the end of Oct.http://on.fb.me/oVytJa

• Newly published history of Boston from Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829): http://bit.ly/q2DF9w

• The brooch that Albert, her new fiancé, gave Victoria as an engagement gift http://bit.ly/pjtkcg

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898