Breakfast Links: Week of July 25, 2011

Here’s our weekly serving of Breakfast Links, featuring our favorite blog posts, news stories, pictures, and news stories gathered fresh from the twitterverse.

• Cold case at Ft. Anne: Fascinating steps towards identifying a Rev. War solider who died over 225 yrs ago: http://bit.ly/og8BUx

• Hasn't changed for hundreds of years: Annual Swan Upping on the Thames: http://bit.ly/r3LgBY

• Were these Victorian "coffin corners", or simply decorative niches for display? http://bit.ly/qrerAa

• Where's the party? A 1937 evening dress of silk and leather by House of Lanvin: http://met.org/nncFfq

• 18^th c. portraitist John S. Copley paints 3 cousins in the same pose & dress also borrowed from an English mezzotint - http://tinyurl.com/3r9awtb

• Utterly awesome gold royal earrings, India, 1st c BC: http://met.org/orEstN

• An extraordinary 16th c. book: A Renaissance Merchant's Life in Clothing: http://bit.ly/qKtRiA

• Magnificent embroidered gown in Jacobean portrait, soon to return to Dunahm Massey: http://bit.ly/nvaSuw

• A confession of despair sewn in tiny cross-stitched letters by a Victorian maidservant, preserved in the V&A http://t.co/7sRXDZg

• Wuthering Heights Classical Comics: http://bit.ly/pLRBX5 to be releasted late August: http://bit.ly/qz0OFf

• Test your nerdy/wordy side, learn size of your vocabulary: http://bit.ly/mNMpQB

• History of UK passports – which in the late Georgian era were written in….French! http://post.ly/2eLP7

• Breakfast in the Regency Era and their Definition of Morning: Jane Austen's World http://wp.me/p6Mf3-4yA

• Broiled bolonga & frankwiches! Mid-20th c housewife haute cuisine: Vintage recipes: http://bit.ly/rdNs5h

• Textile swatches for inspiration http://fb.me/YlaMGT2a

• The Historic Paris Atlas project should be added to any Parisophile's bookmarks, toute de suite. http://bit.ly/p8VYqY

• On 28 July Unspecified Year in 19th c: execution of Tess of the d’Urbervilles http://bit.ly/pvcuu3 

• “Unsung heroes of the early space program"- Am. women of color were the skilled seamstresses sewing spacesuits c 1960: http://bit.ly/oNtaUy