Breakfast Links: Week of April 9, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• How much scent was too much for a Victorian lady or gentleman?
• Sophie Blanchard , the first woman to fly solo in a balloon, 1805.
• Online exhibition: American  aviatrixes : women with wings.
• Image: Sample book of crochet stitches and patterns.
• " Stupid news " of the 19th century.
• The truth about  Johnny Appleseed : he was "a bit of a loon" who died a rich man from planting apples to make hard cider.
• Finding " buried treasure " of the material culture variety on the grounds of an historic 18thc New England house.
• The history of church fans: a quintessential accessory in the American south, and much more in the hands of black women.
• Image: Watercolor painting of George III and Queen Charlotte giving alms to the poor , Maundy Thursday, 1773.
• Medieval Arabic recipes and the history of hummus .
• Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the war that changed poetry forever.
• One hundred forty-six people, mostly young immigrant women, died a horrific death in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911.
• Image: Medieval church mermaid , All Saints, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk.
• An African abbot in Anglo-Saxon England.
• Online exhibition featuring  "Silence Dogood"  - the creation of a teenaged Benjamin Franklin, marking his first published pieces as a journalist.
• Dinner on horseback: a Gilded-Age party for the books.
• Mary Katherine Goddard: the woman who printed the Declaration of Independence.
• In 20thc restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels: check your hat?
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.