Breakfast Links: Week of December 29, 2014

We're back from our holiday break with a super-sized serving of our fav links of the week to other web sites, blogs, articles, and images, all collected via Twitter.
• Seriously cool: Dr. May-Britt Moser accepted her Nobel Prize for Physiology & Medicine wearing a gown covered with sequin versions of the neurons that she discovered.
• Lost and found: toys, tears, and the Thames.
• A brief history of 17th c. women's make-up.
• A unique early 19th c., double-sided paisley-style shawl, woven in Russia.
• A deceased mother's 1739 brocade wedding dress poignantly repurposed for her daughter's wedding shoes in 1773.
• Gowns, illustrations, and more from Gone with the Wind, one of the most iconic costume movies of all-time.
• What a treasure: Bodelian Libraries receive gift of Charles I's traveling library.
• Image: 1860s photo of tollgates, the Old Kent Road, Southwark, London.
• "A festival...held sacred by good eating and drinking": the Christmas season in the 18th c. Lady's Magazine.
• Charles Goss' vanishing London: evocative early 20th c. photographs of a city now gone.
• Autumn comes to Abney Park, one of London's "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries.
• Burn your corsets: 19th c. anti-corset propaganda and their curious use of "science."
• How the Waterloo Medal came about.
• Image: Swedish Queen Kirstina's hat in purple velvet, made in Paris c.1650.
• The smells of a Shakespearean playhouse: early modern recipes for the stage.
• The purpose of perfume in the 18th century.
• Fleeing to Great Dismal Swamp, slaves and other outcasts found freedom.
• Nota Bene: the top ten most important notebooks in history.
• Image: Unusual early 20th c. composite postcard includes real hair.
• Strong constitutions: phenomenal bar bill run up by George Washington and other Founding Fathers.
• The Kitty-Trot, a 1919 dance sensation.
• Montpelier Hill: the mysterious abandoned home of Ireland's 18th c. Hellfire Club.
• Image: Hush! by James Tissot, 1875, Manchester Art Gallery.
• Three-Fingered Jack: the story of Victorian actor Richard John Smith.
• Was Sir Isaac Newton homosexual - and does it matter?
• "Where I See Fashion" tumblr juxtaposes visually striking photographs of art with clothing.
•  Image: According to 1950s magazine, a Man's Life looked pretty terrible.
• Searching for the original color of the Queen's Staircase at Hampton Court Palace.
• Spectacular video links: flying over the Middle Ages.
• Lavishly reimagined interiors in the now-lost NYC house of architect Stanford White.
• Depending on your POV, this is either enlightening, depressing, or confirming all your worst fears: new map reveals Americans' taste in art state by state.
• A long-hidden (and tragic) legacy of the American Civil War: did soldiers 150 years ago suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder?
• Image: Gorgeous detail of the bodice of an 1890s ballgown.
• Unraveling the mystery of a sampler made by a 10-year-old liberated African slave in 1831.
• Etienne-Gaspard Robertson and the 19th c. phantasmagoria.
• A not-so-brief history of American cheerleading.
• Image: So much detail in all those missives! Portrait of a Merchant, by Jan Gossaert, c1530, National Gallery of Art.
• A bestiary of bobs, 1930s.
• "I should apologize...for being absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders... to be desposited like a dead log": Charles Lamb's unapologetic letter of apology following a night of drunken excess.
• An elegy for London's famed White Hart tavern - seven hundred years of history destroyed for a modern office building.
• The best quotes regarding cats from Mark Twain (who was a fervent cat-lover.)
• Looking for a challenge for 2015? Learn to play the game of piquet - 1892 on-line book: The Laws of Piquet as Adopted by the Portland and Turf Clubs.
• Image: Covent Garden Market by Balthazar Nebot, Tate Gallery.
• Anne Brontë's ghost turns up in a house on Long Island looking "pensive....She seems content just going up and down the stairs."
• Just for fun: Congratulations to 16-year-old Jack Magee, U-18 Cartoonist of the Year, for this beauty about Richard III.
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