Here's another serving of our favorite links of the week, highlighting other blogs, web sites, and articles, and all collected for you from around the Twitterverse.
• Celebrating the Jubilee...in 1809.
• Lament for a 19th c wayward wife: "Perhaps she's gone to Bringham Young, a Mormon saint to be..."
• Lost 1918 NYC "Cadillac Salon" where princes and movie idols bought custom automobile bodies.
• Thomas Jefferson's spectacles.
• Half a million golden buttons, sewn with 31 miles of thread? Why, for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Banner, of course!
• A 1945 dress with highlights of D-Day printed on the fabric.
• You know you want one: Edwardian-style steampunk laptop.
• "Miss Monroe refused to wear underclothes."
• Do you recognize this happy, giggling toddler with her parents? Eighty-four years later, she celebrates her Diamond Jubilee.
• The historical truth about General Tso's Chicken, the most popular Hunanese dish in the US.
• Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre unearthed in East London.
• A fabulous find! In 1896, Liverpool Council began to photograph old streets & neighborhoods.
• 180 panorama of inside of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
• All the animals come to the marriage and coronation of Babar & Celeste: draft for the story of Babar.
• American Civil War hero Alonzo H. Cushing may yet get a Medal of Honor for Gettysburg.
• Be afraid! Poisonous shoes in Paris!
• Edwardian problems with the "depraved" sex life of penguins during Scott's arctic expedition.
• The fascinating (and unexpected) history of a female shipwright.
• History of the humble broom.
• Happy birthday to rather snooty dandy George "Beau" Brummell, born this week in 1778.
• Watch your step! 19th c San Francisco tombstones wash up on Ocean Beach.
• Beautiful and unusual. One of the earliest surviving tarot card sets is the Visconti Tarot Deck.
• A fine perambulation: strollers & prams through history.
• Wartime swimsuits hit the beaches.
• The Etiquette of Appropriate Dress, 1900.
• Lace and needlework charts from 1587.
• This cross-dressing squirrel was a stylish & popular fashion plate in the 1940s.
• Georgian ices: pictures & recipes.
• A time-capsule, untouched for 70 years. Paris apartment vacated before WWII, unentered since.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Breakfast Links: Week of June 4, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
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Some really good ones! Enjoyed the Paris mystery, but also the pic of Elizabeth as a toddler, and Liverpool's old street photos, the cadillac salon, the etiquette of tea party dress, just to mention a few.
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