Breakfast Links: Week of February 6, 2012

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

• "How to Look Amorously" print of 1790. All men should adopt this attitude on Valentine's Day. http://twitpic.com/8guabd

• Leap Year's Most Eligible Batchlors, 1888: http://bit.ly/znLpr1 & http://bit.ly/AtFrLW

• Very cool feature on the National Galleries of Scotland site: Tour Scotland with our cross the country feature: http://bit.ly/xPa7P7

• Story of Revolutionary War redcoat and the wife he left behind: http://bit.ly/zyQgVQ

• George IV's Coronation Gown http://wp.me/pGJsu-237

• Scourers, the 18th c dry cleaners for woolen wear: http://bit.ly/yWYmJB

• The Sad Story of Two Grisettes in Paris, 1854: http://bit.ly/AetfmU

• Vinegar Valentines: for the one you love to hate? http://post.ly/56mNo

• Sayyida al Hurra, Islamic pirate queen: http://bit.ly/zJdcOO

• Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names: http://bit.ly/qn4jFo

• Not for the shy society lady: 1887 Evening Ensemble by Charles Frederick Worth: http://bit.ly/wsMVyd

• First page of Dickens' Great Expectations. Heartening number of cross-outs: http://bit.ly/x8oOTD

• Highclere Castle aka Downton Abbey - including rare early 1860s photo http://bit.ly/A8CozQ

• Delman satin and rhinestone evening shoes made especially for Marlene Dietrich. http://fb.me/K7lvsBmH

• Reward of $1000 for lost pudding decree: http://bit.ly/wjPNLo

• Oops. Viking axe turns out to be 18th c. woodworking tool: http://bbc.in/ycq9jW

• The actress behind the Rolls-Royce 'Spirit of Ecstasy' & other women who inspired famous emblems: http://bit.ly/z2XM40

• Lecturer uncovers previously unknown documents with inside story of Henry VIII’s first divorce http://tinyurl.com/7mt4g2s

• Did you know that ticker tape was invented in 1867? History of NYC ticker tape parades! http://bit.ly/xEpWGs

• Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded this week in 1587. Just hours before, she wrote this letter: http://bit.ly/bOXNx8

• "Coffee Tale" about love between a Japanese Mandarin & her courtesan - http://bit.ly/xcBsuQ

• Is it possible to shake both JQ Adams and JFK's hands in one lifetime? http://n.pr/xyRRbk

• The Etiquette of Bowing http://fb.me/Lt9JdJHP

• "I shall always be near you." A beautiful, heartbreaking letter from a Civil War soldier to his wife in 1861: http://bit.ly/zag6qw