Breakfast Links: Week of September 12, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Is this the key to Alexander Hamilton's secret correspondence ?
• The physics of Rapunzel's hair : could a man really use it to climb up? Apparently yes.
• A familiar part of Georgian travel : falling off your horse.
• French kissing to lesbian orgies: the origins of the myth of the debauched French court .
• Image: From the Lady's Magazine, July 1797: "Rules to be observed at City Feasts , especially Parochial Ones" - and perhaps at BBQs, too.
• "Gymnasticks" and dumbbells: exercise in 17th-18thc Britain.
• The weathervanes of Old London.
• Ring for a bride, made from shard of glass that nearly blinded a WWI tank commander in battle.
• Image: Already a tourist attraction: Philadelphia house where Jefferson wrote Declaration of Independence, shown in an 1855 photo.
• Are these seven pigtails from the infamous mutineers of the Bounty?
• Great rooms in children's literature.
• "A most lamented princesse ": a 17thc English princess at Versailles.
• Uncovering a different side of Bath .
• The 18thc man with (supposedly) 87 children – and only one wife.
• Image: A Medusa mosaic, 2nd-3rdc AD from the Archaeological Museum of Tarragona.
• The tragedy of early 20thc beauty, model, and actress  Audrey Munson .
• When fashion becomes a form of protest .
• British female felons in the 18thc.
• The newest historical  American Girl doll  has Motown swagger.
• General George Washington , hairdresser.
• Image: Oh, the Illustrated Police News, 1895: " Pinching girls' legs his mania." Story here .
• One hundred and fifty-one years after the last shot was fired, a  Civil War pension is still being paid by the U.S. government to the daughter of a veteran.
• Criss-Cross Spelling Slip s: sold as an educational game in the 1880s.
• "Gone for a solider ": but the 19thc British Army wasn't for everyone.
• Image: Just for fun: arguably the best photo and caption on Wikipedia.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.