Breakfast Links: Week of March 4, 2012

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

• Nunhead, one of London's "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries: http://bit.ly/vZARQy

• Second of two minor earthquakes causes panic in London,1750. http://bit.ly/zWTuQq

• The extravagant 1902 carriage house in NYC so large it became a private school. http://bit.ly/yvOcsh

• Pie Week ends with a classic of the genre: 17th c recipe for pork pie, plus how to pickle walnuts http://bit.ly/xZms3Z

• Rebellious Virginian slave named Violet, executed & her head stuck on a pike as a warning,1780 http://ow.ly/9hwEO

• When Huckleberry Finn's Pap had the "delirium tremens", this is what he meant, c 1844: http://bit.ly/yn4cLn

• A churchyard memorial to Tiddles the cat in Fairford, Gloucestershire: http://bit.ly/xiw62S

• Whitework embroidery, cutwork , & draping embellish this stunning 1870s polonaise bodice: http://bit.ly/zR69Fz

• How do fabric samples provide a glimpse into the life of a colonial NYC businesswoman? http://ow.ly/9xDcW

• The Shoe Project: stories of women who immigrated to Canada & the shoes that mean something to them: http://bit.ly/yJMrAJ

• Le Baron de Besenval (1722–1791), the last commander of the Swiss Guard http://bit.ly/x0wHv3

• Princess Alexandra's Spinning School - http://bit.ly/x8yia5

• Elizabethan clown Richard Tarlton. Part Tommy Cooper, part Marty Feldman & a dash of Lenny Bruce. http://wp.me/p1EDRx-80

• The Boston Massacre in Black, White & Color http://wp.me/p1fREw-2nP

• This week in 1812: Lady Caroline Lamb writes anonymous letter to Lord Byron praising poem ‘Childe Harold’. http://bit.ly/w12hPv

• 1862 - The true and tragic story of Mary Ramsdale and family http://awe.sm/5hGxb

• First-hand account of London clothes rationing during WWII - http://bbc.in/yU5jnN

• How to make the perfect chair screen, 1850, from Miss Leslie's Ladies' Handbook: http://bit.ly/ADo0cX

• This is lovely. Good old Pierce Pennilesse: 8 kinds of drunkenness, 1592: http://bit.ly/AsZCxs

• This week in 1900: 1st plague death occurred in Black Death epidemic in Victorian SF: http://bit.ly/AAPK9O

• How do you rate as a husband or wife of the 1930s? Take the test and find out: http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/