Happy August! We celebrate the last month of summer with a fresh serving of Breakfast Links – our weekly round-up of favorite links to other blogs, sites, pictures, and articles gathered from around the Twitterverse.
• Free British Museum iPad App: "The Historical Collection": http://wp.me/pGJsu-1JS
• Gorgeous 18th c French clocks, including recordings of their chimes: http://bit.ly/oKIIL0
• Living Room Installation at The Jewish Museum Evokes Everyday Life in 1930s Berlin: http://bit.ly/ntWKvD
• A sumptuous silk coat by designer Yves Saint Laurent, who would have turned 75 on August 1: http://met.org/mXTdX3
• Women at Sea giving birth upon wave; a brief history of children born at sea: http://bit.ly/pTJZXx
• Rome's Pantheon may have been built as a massive sundial, researchers reveal http://tgr.ph/oZPlMU
• Brooches and bouquets: two high-profile senders of symbolic messages http://bit.ly/ohcBF2
• "So common-minded, so salacious & so illiterate": Georgette Heyer on Barbara Cartland after repeated plagiarism: http://bit.ly/nW99ze
• Architect Barbie's dreamhouse (with a closet on every floor of course!): http://bit.ly/rmORw9
• Mysteries of the Catacombs in Paris http://bit.ly/puRuQe
• A Revolutionary War Story of Intrigue at Hilton Head Island, SC, by http://bit.ly/q2f7lB
• Video of Jesse Owens' incredible victory in 100m at 1936 Berlin Olympics on 3 August: http://bit.ly/qOMu0M
• Beautiful! Bride tells story of her 127 year old family heirloom wedding dress - http://bit.ly/q5E48w
• Russian icons dated from the 16th-19th c. discovered at St. Catherine's Monastery in impeccable condition: http://bit.ly/ocZIAy
• Why did so many of Jane Austen's men choose the life of a clergyman? http://bit.ly/r5UDtc
• Mrs. John Winthrop, 1773: Amazing grace & dignity in a portrait: http://bit.ly/roudqg
• Tsar Nicholas II and his family arrived on the Isle of Wight on August 2nd, 1909 http://dlvr.it/dpjDg
• Great online exhibition from the Bodleian Library - A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera 1654-1860s:
• 'An Account of Miss Rosco & Miss Osborne, actresses at the Crow-street theatre, Dublin 1759-60' http://bit.ly/fV4dKN
• Greyfriars Bobby who kept vigil over his master's grave for 14 years was 'a publicity stunt': http://dlvr.it/dyZcR
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