Breakfast Links: Week of February 27, 2012

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

• Eclipse, born 1st April 1764, died 26th February 1789 - perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time. http://bit.ly/xyshEI

• Growing your own buildings: a 1,500 yr old yew tree with three benches tucked inside - Herefordshire: http://bit.ly/Atzrbd

• The ultimate family feud -- Astor vs. Astor. http://bit.ly/zw9GKq

• Forget Oscars gowns. Pink striped silk ballgown with beautiful sleeves, hem detail c 1820 http://bit.ly/zeJXvV

• The Ghent Altarpiece in ultra-high-resolution. Incredible detail. Zoom in & keep zooming! http://ow.ly/9jqNG

• Excellent slide show: Lover’s Eyes : How Eye Miniatures Became the Mood Rings of the Late 1700s http://vnty.fr/y2XIZG

• The Great Dublin Exhibition of Art & Industry,1851: http://bit.ly/AjSY6B

• Teenage girls of 1940s America: http://bit.ly/xgNEBU

• The art of dry-cleaning in Paris in 1848: http://bit.ly/xK9SWN

• Pastel bowties, too. Are these London's most interesting underpants? http://bit.ly/zmNVnj

• This painting of an 18^th c couple in their library holds up a mirror to our own ideals of the civilised life: http://bit.ly/A4amYn

• 10 rules of the anti-flirt club of the early 1920s http://j.mp/yQVtbD

• Turn-Of-The-Century Gym Clothes http://bit.ly/z1nC9x

• Charlotte Brontë's lost short story to be published http://gu.com/p/35z47/tw

• Re-imagining Elizabethan London http://bit.ly/A9K6Ho

• "Bloomers" take advantage of Leap Year, 1862: http://bit.ly/y7SgVz

• Dickens at work as a boy in the Blacking Factory http://bit.ly/xr7EWO

• Knowing the weather at sea by the look of the moon, 17th century style http://bit.ly/wN3I9O

• Sir John Soane's Other Regency-Era House http://wp.me/p13rlt-1qY Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing. 

• Debauchery at the Bartholomew Fair http://bit.ly/z8Uc7Q

• An impressively detailed new microsite on the history of Titanic http://bit.ly/xZvCzj

• Undecorated: Heroines of the Civil War http://fb.me/1ExVhPeAy

• An heir & a spare but no love there - Queen Anne of Austria & Spain 1601–1666 - http://bit.ly/A8TAmY

• Amazing 1945 silk dinner-dress by Mainbocher that's straight out of the 1830s: http://bit.ly/wlVP3m