Served up fresh for you, our weekly offering of Breakfast Links: our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, all collected for you from around the Twitterverse.
• Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific publisher. Its journal archive is now freely available online http://bit.ly/uP0uoW
• 17th century Glass Trade Beads http://bit.ly/vAq925 #chs
• General Grant’s sword and an unusual use for a Civil War artifact: http://ow.ly/77gF2
• Death attacks! The Nightingale monument at Westminster Abbeyhttp://bit.ly/hbCskq
• 'The Final Indignity: Dissecting the Criminal Body' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-rc
• Ring lost in Wiltshire returned after 180 years - http://bbc.in/oRGI3v
• Degrees of prostitution in 19th c Paris: http://bit.ly/uBcnOC
• From the pages of Thomas Hardy: shepherds' huts:http://bit.ly/uJ5GLd
• Interiors of the Titanic - 1912http://bit.ly/oI4ZhN
• Sad, symbolic & beautiful creations: mourning quilts: http://ht.ly/77UDK
• The Golden Age of Dirty Talk: http://bit.ly/v3U3sv Ruff diddling ahead!
• Roots of binge drinking traced back to 17th century studentshttp://j.mp/uxswG9
• Re-opening of 18th c artist William Hogarth's house, Chiswick http://post.ly/3h2yi
• "The Negro Girl of Mr. Wheatley's": http://bit.ly/uTnaKx
• 1930s Madeline Vionnet bias-cut gownhttp://bit.ly/tZsqs3
• Cork family parts with Titanic victim's message in a bottlehttp://bbc.in/uqEN1c
• It's that time of year again! Tudor Ghost Caught on Film http://bit.ly/srQXuX
• Edith Wharton’s lessons on writing are still valuable today: http://bit.ly/v3NC3U
• Living ghosts of Civil War veterans come alive in silent newsreel footage. http://fb.me/BtWT5cZw
• London's lost amulets and forgotten folklorehttp://tgr.ph/tneUUt via
• Ham and hay: 19th c cooking method inspired by autumn harvest, recipes: http://bit.ly/v3sgC4
• A Capability Brown walk at Dinefwr Park, Carmarthenshire, restored and reopened:http://bit.ly/vJrXmd
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5 comments:
Thank you so much for the links! I find the Tudor Ghost link to be truly fascinating!
Great links. Really like the Edith Wharton post.
Thanks for the posting the piece on Confederate veterans. Hearing the old-timers do the rebel yell was so interesting, but I would have loved to have heard their younger selves do it in mass formation as they made a charge. Would have had a different effect, I'm sure. Here is a small image of the effect of age and circumstances: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, vol. 3 (three volumes; New York: Random House, 1974), 1046.
Oops! Didn't post the entire quote ... Historian Shelby Foote noted that the Confederate yell, used when attacking, was “a sort of fox-hunt yip mixed up with a sort of banshee squall.” He recalled that “An old Confederate veteran … [years after the war] was asked … to give the Rebel Yell. The ladies had never heard it. And he said, ‘It can’t be done, except at a run, and I couldn’t do it anyhow with a mouthful of false teeth and a stomach full of food.”
Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, vol. 3 (three volumes; New York: Random House, 1974), 1046. See also, Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns, The Civil War: An Illustrated History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), 267.
I am late commenting, because I was traveling when you posted this, but you had some great sites here and I bookmarked a few of them. Thanks.
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