Breakfast Links: Week of January 14, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Bullet-stopping Bibles .
• How an earthenware jug can be a radical object.
• Why did Charles Dickens have a personal postbox?
• A seldom-seen part of New York City : the vanishing towns along Hook Creek.
• An overlooked benefactress: new research discoveries about who paid for Alexander Hamilton's education .
• Image: Cross-section of a Regency-era  townhouse  in Brunswick Square.
• Katherine of Aragon's prayer book.
• How the newly rediscovered kitchen at Monticello fits into the history of upper-class dining in the west.
• Empress Josephine and the creation of Malmaison .
• Two suns? No, it's a supernova drawn in Kashmir over 6,000 years ago.
• A graveyard of ghost ships near Coney Island.
• The tattooist of Auschwitz - and his secret love.
• Image: This is the world's oldest known woven garment , dating from 3482-3103 BC.
• The countess, the gout , and the spider.
• Then and now: fifteen historic New York scenes .
• Unicorns in an 18thc Persian medical manual.
• Image: Cutaway reconstruction of late 12thc  polygonal keep  at Conisbrough Castle, South Yorkshire.
• Distilling the essence of Heaven: how alcohol could defeat the Antichrist (at least in the 16thc.)
• A rare cast & chased gold medal of Queen Elizabeth I that was likely a gift from the queen to a favored courtier or ally.
• Unbelievable images from Weird (er, World) War Two.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection