Breakfast Links: Week of February 12, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Archaeologists think this spinning disk - at least 14,000 years old - may have been a child's toy. More about ancient toys and children here .
• Tulipmania : the classic story of a 17thc Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong.
• A grand piano bought by Queen Victoria as a gift to Prince Albert in 1854.
• The bloody world of Georgian female boxing .
• Filling in the 19thc history of pregnancy and dress .
• Image: Believed to be the earliest identified sampler by an African American, this rare work from 1793 carries a beautiful message.
• Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley: the real story.
• The earliest photographs of the Henry Clay Frick mansion before it became an art museum.
• Image: A delicate mourning bonnet , c1870.
• The beautiful chaos of improvisational quilts : jazz with a needle.
• For author Mark Twain , it was love at first sight..
• Seven black nurses who changed medical history.
• Image: The contents of President Abraham Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated.
• Video: The only artifact in the collection of Fort Ticonderoga certain to have been used by a woman.
• Get your quills ready: a short guide to making a medieval manuscript .
• Now on-line: the commonplace books of Lady Augusta Murray , who married George III's son, the Duke of Sussex, and had his children, but then saw their marriage ruled invalid.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection