Breakfast Links: Week of May 27, 2013

We're a bit late with this week's Breakfast Links, though we DO have a good reason. Saturday was Isabella's/Susan's birthday, and today is Loretta's. Double Gemini celebrations! But we wouldn't want to neglect you when there's been a week filled with great links to share from other blogs, web sites, articles, and pictures, all gathered from around the Twitterverse.
• A tale of the male pannier, a lost garment of the 18th century.
• "You ain't ruined": how Thomas Hardy challenged the Victorian culture of female purity.
• A visit to the Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle.
• Casting a wide shadow across Victorian fashion: the crinoline silhouette.
• Vintage photo of Victorian ladies curling.
• Mother Goose's French birth (1697) and British afterlife (1729).
• In 1919, the monumental task begins of restoring the nearly obliterated Theodore Roosevelt house in NYC.
• Scientists find a frozen 10,000 year old wooly mammoth that still has liquid blood.
• Now that it's summer...time to break out a short history of flip-flops.
• Dramatically different undergarments for women, c. 1925.
• Roman golden phallus so popular museum to sell replicas.
• "Domestic differences & little broils": women working in the East India House in the early 19th c.
• Barley sugar twists, an 18th c. treat.
• Mysterious ghost map of WWI battlefields appears on a Texas wall.
• Twenty exquisite sorrows: 1920s flappers with sad eyes.
• Art in the 19th c. classroom: designs for blackboard drawings for every month of the school year, c. 1890.
• "A snake in the chimney-corner": early modern crime and extended families.
• Curiosity killed the cat: historical origins of cat idioms and expressions in English.
• Ancestors who died on the Tudor ship Mary Rose may soon be identified by DNA.
• Young Mozart's 18th c. London.
• "Get me a radium highball!" New York and the radium craze.
• How people in the 17th c. faced up to their own climate change.
• Wallpaper that expands your horizons, c. 1900.
• The sisters Tatin and their famous apple tart.
• Friends of war: affectionate portraits of Civil War army friends.
• Living vertically: Parisian housing in 1850.
• History myth or truth? The American colonists won the Revolutionary War through the use of guerilla war tactics.
• Radical fashion from Nuremberg's Schembart Carnival, 1590.
• Risque nose art on WWII planes.
• The soldier's mother, 1864.
• Truth behind the death of suffragist Emily Davison finally revealed.
• The Tower of London in old photographs.
• Jane Austen on the block.
• Images of 19th c. Decoration Day: Harpers Weekly honors the Civil War fallen.
• Considerably intoxicated, 1832.
• Cold waters, plunging showers, & warm baths: early American public gardens for swimming & bathing.
• Recipe for Chicken Pudding, a favorite dish in 18th c. Virginia.
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