Breakfast Links: Week of February 21, 2011

Happy Sunday! Here's this week's serving of the freshest Breakfast Links, a selection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and other curiosities that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:

• Charles II may have loved the ladies, but perhaps not writing poetry in their honor: http://post.ly/1RRVV

• Yes! New cartoons at Hark! a Vagrant: http://harkavagrant.com/index.php

• Is this the best ATM site in London? Machines are on the right. Lloyds-TSB, Fleet Street. http://twitpic.com/43oemg

• Tracing the history of an evening gown c1900 A detective story, brought to you by the FIDM Museum http://fb.me/GpOQJ9oL

• Fabre d’Églantine’s symbolic choices for the French Republican calendar http://bit.ly/hXOoeN

• American Depicted As a Woman Before Revolution Evolves into National Symbol Lady Liberty: http://bit.ly/bHhKTs

• Another tale of love and lust that ended in sadness from Petworth House: http://bit.ly/dLQEFF

• Unnamed Triangle Waist Company Victims Identified - http://nyti.ms/ecAgMu - proof of what one genealogist can do.

• Eltham Palace - http://bit.ly/hwEWwQ - Wonderful 1930s interiors. The Dining Room ceiling was leafed in aluminium.

• Cheery versions of forgotten trades & hawkers in "Player's Cries of London" cards, 1916: http://bit.ly/ea3m1c

• Secret life of a dress curator at the Museum of London: http://tinyurl.com/6cu75go

• TeddyRoosevelt challenged ambassadors to swim naked in RockCreekPark: http://j.mp/i5IwNn

• The Handel House - Flickr slideshow - http://bit.ly/e2ITVp Click on 'Show Info' for a commentary

• One more B-day post for Pres. George:  Brother Washington’s apron: a Masonic mystery http://tinyurl.com/4tctg73

• Book us a room, please! 1808 house in Bath (now B&B) where 'Persuasion' was filmed: http://bit.ly/gb3eTg #JaneAustenfilms

• Peculiarly creative: Crocheted periwig for George & tall hat for Abe adorn fence posts at Harvard for Presidents Day: http://bit.ly/fPYoG

• Today in 1716: Jacobite leader Lord Nithsdale's daring escape from the Tower: http://bit.ly/eisB4Z

• A sad side to Edwardian England in the faces of public drunkards: http://bit.ly/caXlvF

• In Honour of London Fashion Week, a look at the father of modern fashion Charles Worth, and his muse http://bit.ly/gJjlfU

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898