Breakfast Links: Week of October 15, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Rediscovering the  black muse s erased from art history.
• A Victorian guide to Cambridge student life.
• Mark Twain liked cats better than people.
• Star-spangled Pierrot and Pierrette costumes from the 1920s.
• How the Romantic poets idolized 18thc Polish freedom-fighter (and veteran of the American Revolution)  Tadeusz Kosciuszko .
• Image: Lord Byron's carnival mask .
• The treatment of children in the Garlands Lunatic Asylum , 1862-1914.
• A medieval book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one.
• The 19thc British cavalry horse .
• Coach clocks , for telling time on long journeys.
• Infusing life: the first human-to-human  blood transfusion , 1818
• Image: Macabre c1815 silver skull opens up to reveal 17thc watch.
• What happens when humans fall in love with an invasive species .
• Land of the Livingstons: historic houses along the Hudson River.
• Maureen Rose , buttonmaker, in a Fitzrovia shop that's in the house where Charles Dickens grew up.
• The  royal babies  of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.