Breakfast Links: Week of April 24, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Finally, from Italy, the full George Washington .
• Charles Dickens called this machine a monster - but it helped the lives of Londoners.
• The sad perils of love unapproved by Queen Elizabeth I: Lady Mary Grey .
•  Coach-building  in the late 18th-early 19thc.
• Preserving the signs of censorship in a 16thc astronomy book.
• Tiny hand-bound books made by the Brontes as children.
• Image: A stunning 1939 embroidered outfit by Schiaparelli .
• Florence Nightingale's "rubbish' amulets to go on display for the first time.
• Europe's famed bog bodies are finally beginning to reveal their secrets.
• Image: Women on a fire escape during a drill, c1913; their hobble skirts made it difficult to escape in the event of an emergency.
• Surgeon, apothecary, engineer, inventor, antiquarian, musician, artist, and author - William Close was all of these.
• While this menu from Delmonico's is interesting in its own right, the history of its ownership adds to its context.
• Romania's problem with Dracula .
• Drums, bugles, and bagpipes in the Seven Years' War.
• Pirate Sam Bellamy lacked the fame of Blackbeard, but made more of a fortune.
• Is it just a recipe for soup , or a counter-revolution in a bowl?
• Image: Daffodil from Grandville's Flowers Personified, New York, 1845.
• After the devastation of World War One, French women sustained their families by embroidery sold to Americans.
• Louise May Alcott wrote "The Brother" for The Atlantic based on her experiences as a Civel War nurse.
• A tiny face  on a glass bead looks at you through a screen from the 1stc BC Roman Egypt.
• Fur coat worn by Titanic stewardess sold for £150,000.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection