Breakfast Links: Week of January 8, 2012

Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links. Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.

• A Few Renaissance Lap Dogs: http://bit.ly/AnS6DR

• 1760 NYC mansion with unparalleled history lost forever. http://bit.ly/yS91Wa

• New Exhibtion on Princess Charlotte, The Forgotten Princess, to be held at Royal Pavilioni Brighton http://wp.me/pGJsu-1Yt

• The dangers of drinking from 1682, illustrated with some entertaining original woodcuts http://bit.ly/A8nacD

• Fashions of First Ladies, a real trove online: http://bit.ly/vzm7Qx

• Scandalous end to a love triangle: Edith Thompson & Frederick Bywaters hanged 9 Jan 1923 http://ow.ly/8mr5b

• One of the most beautiful books in the Folger Library: c1900 artists' book of Midsummer Night's Dream: http://bit.ly/zAa2Fv

• In Pictures: The history of London Zoo http://bit.ly/xoKJuV

• "Horsecakes", a 19th c American gingerbread treat (w/recipe): http://bit.ly/zgBPTX

• Some Tudor and Stuart portraits are pure fashion moments: http://bit.ly/A05aoB

• In Sept 1774, Abigail Adams worries about rumors of a slave uprising in Massachusetts: http://bit.ly/zOLGic

• In search of London's execution sites http://bit.ly/xi3wjy

• Neat website about the role of American women in WWI: The Heiress Corps - http://heiresscorps.wordpress.com/

• Gorgeous gilded Leather wall-hangings http://bit.ly/qk4ryc

• Early Am. prison escape artist Daniel Wilson, born in Bellingham 1749, hanged in Providence 1774: http://bit.ly/xLnkCT

• A designer bag from Leonardo da Vinci?: http://bit.ly/ApYSZt

• Anna and the Librarian: An American Civil War tale involving the St. Louis Mercantile Library : http://nyti.ms/yI8NVl

• Charming family sketches by Queen Victoria - revealed after 150 years http://bit.ly/z7EmMt

• Brest's Coffee-House, 1773 - what did 18^th c gentleman want from a fine coffee house?: http://bit.ly/z7L8hM

• The card game Speculation - as mentioned by Jane Austen & etc, & enjoying a brief vogue 200 yrs ago. http://bit.ly/wZED2a

• Linen day dress attributed to Paul Poiret, circa 1912, http://fb.me/TLnyoRXK