Breakfast Links: Week of August 15, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Three hellish places from London's past that you wouldn't want to visit.
• The bridges of Old London.
• A scandalous divorce: the two Mrs. Fenollosas.
• Where is King Henry VIII buried and why doesn't he have a tomb?
• DIY fashion continues to thrive at the McCall Pattern Company , founded in 1863.
• Image: Jane Austen finishes writing Persuasion on August 6, 1816 - and here's a page of the manuscript.
• "The pink of fashion ": Mrs. Andrew Hamilton visits SweetBriar in Philadelphia, 1818.
• The many loves of Henry Tufts , the original colonial bad boy.
• How left-handed penmanship contests tried to help Civil War veterans after amputations.
• Paris, city of lights, romance, and urinals .
• Image: 2000-year-old Greek mosaic floor accidentally discovered in Turkey (and it's a beauty.)
• Mayhew's street traders of London, 1851.
• Stunning interpretations of El Greco portraits created with yarn, a loom, and an algorithm .
• Countess Leonor D'Oeynhausen , an 18thc poet and intellectual possibly involved in espionage.
• 1926 meets 1776 at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial .
• From the suffragettes to BLM: the unexpected ways that protestors have utilized fashion.
• Image: The 19thc  Egyptian House  in Penzance makes even the Brighton Pavilion look demure.
• The nostalgic glow of NYC's remaining historic neon signs .
• A short illustrated history of firefighting helmets .
• Occupational hazards: the maladies of early modern midwives .
• Who shot Edward Vyse? The Corn Law Riots of 1815.
• Image: A Victorian anti-drowning device .
• Bonded by love and liver: the story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng .
• How many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in places other than the state they represented in the Continental Congress?
• We love a ducky story with a happy ending.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.