Breakfast Links: Week of November 4, 2012

Served up fresh - our latest helping of Breakfast Links! Our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, blogs, articles, and images, all gathered for you from around the Twitterverse.
• Know a woman who is bossy or wants the right to vote? "Fun" badge from 1898.
• The Vikings had a taste for fine Persian silk.
• Beautiful portraits show sisters and sisterhood.
• Useful for chilly days: a 12th c. Irish bronze handwarmer.
•Paper instead of gold? The 18th c. furor surrounding the issue of the first paper bank notes.
• A brief fashion history of the iconic LBD, or little black dress.
• Recreating a 1920s that may not have existed: short video from the VFX team behind the recent film The Great Gatsby.
• Nice to see some highly immature 19th c. behavior involving a painted moustache immortalized in print.
• At the ghost parade: night-time rehearsal for the Lord Mayor's Show, and oh, that coach!
• From Jane Austen's handwritten manuscripts to the Lindisfarne Gospels - explore treasures of the British Library with these eBook downloads.
• A look at Hart Island, New York City's Potter's Field, and the largest mass grave site in the U.S.
• This 1747 recipe for "Nothing Pudding" has far more ingredients than the title indicates.
• A dog named Bashaw: 1832 life-sized marble statue of a faithful Newfoundland, plus other canine portraits.
• Charlotte Bronte's tiny, tiny handwritten book.
• Using garlic to test for fertility in the ancient Greek world.
• Let your closet dream big! Catalogue to upcoming auction of Victorian, Edwardian, & 1920s clothes and jewelry.
• Ignatius Sancho, a black Georgian in 18th c. London.
• Why do we kiss?
• Charlotte Bronte's portrait of her friend Sophia Hudson returns to Bronte Parsonage for the first time in 170 years.
• The Great Storm of 1703: eyewitness accounts of the worst storm in England's history.
• How much meat did medieval people eat?
• Feeling lonesome? 19th c. love charms and party games.
• Ending washday blues: the invention of Washing Mill.
• Georgian comfort-food: 18th c. recipe for Shin of Beef Stewed.
• The lost NYC mansion of Mrs. Mary Mason Jones, the indomitable aunt of Edith Wharton and inspiration of her character Mrs. Manson Mingott.
• Confessions of 19th c. children who committed murder.
• Ready for a 1606 masque at court in a costume 'A la nimphale.'
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