Breakfast Links: Week of November 21, 2011

We’re back from our holidays, feeling refreshed and ready to serve up our weekly offering of favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected for you from the Twitterverse. Dig in!

• Victorian Christmas on display at Windsor Castle: http://bit.ly/tPhYAm

• An 1856 NYC housing experiment that failed as a mansion, but suceeded as early women's college: http://bit.ly/rqsJUH

• The odd & tragic death of Margaret Fuller, literary lioness: http://bit.ly/uDdCN3

• Magnificent Victorian Jeweled Girandole Earrings c1850: http://bit.ly/rVTMpH

• Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List http://n.pr/vB4eka

• Colonel Brandon's Curries, Part Two http://wp.me/pGJsu-1U0 /

• Zooming in on a wonderful yellow striped sacque gown c 1770s: http://bit.ly/upUvQY

• Fascinating resource for fashion and textile objects: Scottish Textiles Heritage Online: http://bit.ly/tV3djB

• Take this quiz and find out which Greek hero, monster of god matches your personality. http://ow.ly/7BOLy

• Knit Eleanor Roosevelt's mittens - pattern plus vintage photo of First Lady knitting at the beach: http://bit.ly/74sUHt

• Luminous orange panne velvet 1930s evening coat from FIDM blog archive. http://fb.me/1sT4LM8uU

• Louisa May Alcott & the American Civil War: http://bit.ly/6Bx7My

• "Childhood in the Roman Empire" http://bit.ly/twCBlf

• How can wet slippers be fatal? Why heroines die in classic fiction http://bit.ly/vvum1v

• 'Lancets and Leeches and Cupping! Oh, My! Bloodletting Practices' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-ts

• Black Friday and the missing retail amenity http://ow.ly/1fNMx5

• The original dunce was actually brilliant (we especially love his rationale for the pointed hat). http://ow.ly/7nZBj

• Beautiful images: Statuary slideshow to stir the soul - http://bit.ly/aVYzK
• Visting the British Museum in 1760: http://bit.ly/usvOlu

• At National Trust's Avebury Manor: a different approach to historical interpretation: http://bit.ly/t4mXAu

• Colour footage of Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, 1939 - http://bit.ly/tWEr5U

• A spurious telling of #Thanksgiving legends c 1900:http://bit.ly/swFow0

• We have never seen this Mirror Photography trick before, and great to see an explanation: http://flic.kr/s/aHsiXqsTbU