Breakfast Links: Week of January 22, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Seldom recorded by name, but definitely on board: women  in the Georgian-Victorian Royal Navy.
• The intricate art of using human hair for art, jewelry, and decoration.
• Royalty, espionage, erotica: secrets of the world's tiniest photographs .
• Women had few powers in Ancient Greece - except in death.
• How did history lose Thomas Jefferson's daughter ?
• Image: Original list with alternative titles for Lord of the Flies .
• The noble art of " milling " - which to a Regency man meant a bare-knuckles fight.
• How a library handles a rare and deadly book of arsenic-laden wallpaper samples .
• " Hell's Half Acre, " the old red-light district of Los Angeles, and the nightmare of sex workers.
• The jewelry in the paintings of Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti.
• The cost of comfor t: the 1761 expenses of wealthy New Yorker Philip Schuyler.
• "The Royal Women of Amarna" explores images of beauty in Ancient Egypt; download to read for free.
• Image: A patriotic (though aristocratic) 17thc wine cooler .
• How beautiful is this patent drawing for a  bendy straw ?
• Dispelling Tudor myths : Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury.
• A 350-year-old recipe for "pumion" pie .
• Runaway spouses : naming and shaming.
• Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, c1744, earliest surviving collection of nursery rhymes, includes a song about a bedwetter called " Piss a Bed ."
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection