Breakfast Links: Week of May 9, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Brains plus bonnets equal an historic first: meet Mary Kies , America's first woman to become a patent holder.
• London  watermen's steps  in Wapping.
• Six lesser-known  female pioneers of 19thc photography.
• A brief history of menstruating in outer space.
• Knitting for victory: a how-to book of projects for men serving in World War One.
• Image: "Have dinner at one, dear": 1897 stereocard shows a dramatized version of the " new woman " and her bicycle.
• Thirsty? Documenting the fresh-water springs  and wells that used to be in New York City.
• The Scottish Play and the real Macbeth .
• Early color photographs of Russia from the Library of Congress.
• The 19thc Cherokee Phoenix allowed a people to speak with a newly created voice.
• Enjoy a virtual tour of George Washington's Mount Vernon.
• Image: Lady Duff Gordon - also known as the  designer Lucile - fashionably dressed on the deck of the Titanic.
• Dressing the part for Carnival .
• "Summer, sun-brightest": an Anglo-Saxon summer .
• The story of a Rembrandt painting 's complicated journey from a basement in New Jersey to the Getty Museum.
• The effulgence of country gardens - on velvet.
• How was Napoleon's death reported by the newspapers?
• The life and death of Mummy Brown.
• Found in Yorkshire: a gold ring, possibly worn by royalty, from the 5th-6thc, and with a sapphire that came from Sri Lanka.
• Image: An American woman teaches English busboys how to do the Charleston , 1925.
• No men were allowed at a Puff Pant Prom in the 1920s-30s.
• "Human serpents sent to us by our Mother Country": the transformation of  Anthony Lamb , transported convict, 1724.
• Dressing up smart for God in the Tudor church.
• Twelve word facts you may not know about cake .
• Explore the photos of old NYC from the New York Public Library with their new free app.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.