FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th August 2023

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog.... ‘A granddaughters reminiscences’ Bev Murray

National Archives UK Men of Harlech: The Secret Commandos

Five little-known inventors of the Victorian era 

Ministry of Time Travel

Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – June 2023 (& some extras) Lonetester

Recent Articles Are You Listening? 25 Australian History and Genealogy Podcasts   Good Reads #1 

Traces Magazine – Issue 22 (April 2023)

Join SLQ’s New Transcription Project

Family history for beginners | Trove

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers - Archives of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle | Living Histories

Judith Salecich The Moura Cafe and a family history puzzle

Outback Family History

Its our 10th Anniversary –     The Long Walk –   

Died in the Dentist Chair –     Too Late to Say Goodbye –

JStor Daily

The Fungi-Mad Ladies of Long Ago    Read More

As Militaries Adopt AI, Hype Becomes a Weapon  Read more...

When Lord Byron Tried to Buy a Twelve-Year-Old Girl Read more...

Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy Read more...

Native Origin Stories As Tools of Conquest  Read more...

The Caricature Who Couldn't Appear on American Born Chinese  Read more...

Atlas Obscura

The Colorado River’s Missing Water    Butter Cows  Boba Tea History 

13 Unbelievable Underwater Wonders in Florida  Cincinnati’s Forgotten Subway System  Gargoyles and Grotesques

The Architectural Feature That Nearly Failed Lock-In Tower of Theth

The Atlas Obscura Guide to Vermont Vermontasaurus

10 Unexpected Delights of Vermont's Arts and Culture Scene

Flying Monkey Sculptures  The Museum of Everyday Life   

Fire Hydrant Jack  Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium

Green Mount Cemetery 'Snowflake' Bentley Exhibit  Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway      The Burryman Festival 

Varied Mango Choices     The Blue City of Jodhpur

PODCAST Burj Al Babas     PODCAST Butter Sculptures  PODCAST Gullah Museum PODCAST Hartsdale Pet Cemetery

Oscar Wilde’s Final Resting Place      A Bookstore In a Theater

The Heaviest Corner On Earth An Ancient “Haunted” Coral Road

The Death Chairs of Poor Clares Cemetery  The History of Pants

A Supposed “Ancient Pyramid” Recreating a Missing Roman Legion

The Untold Secrets of Paris’s Catacombs  A Culinary Candle

Rat Nests Are… Useful?  A Disappearing Act Blue Grotto

The Longest Straight Road in the U.S. A Nearly Invisible Treehouse

From Abandoned Tunnels To Art  The Last Wild Apple Forests

A Tree That Helped Shape Tea Culture  Woodstock Site

A Rock With a Heartwarming Story   Treepod Restaurant

Colonialism in Plant Collections   Viking Funerary Flatbread

Site of the Pine Tree Riot  Poland’s Anti-Vampire Measures

Maine’s Viking Penny  Abandoned Theme Parks  World's Largest Cheese Slicer    A Castle With Underground Caves 

This Leads to an Underground Book Bunker Hatshepsut's Myrrh Tree

How Fans Saved a Historic Castle From Oblivion

Irish Genealogy

17th-century records of those who settled in Ulster now available online - IrishCentral 

Thousands of adopted children's names revealed on Scottish website - The Guardian  then... 

Adopted children's names removed from website following privacy concerns - Ireland Live

Genealogy workshop is Oct. 7 - Daily Advocate & Early Bird News

Conan O'Brien discusses Irish ancestry on Irish podcast "Second Captains" 

IrelandXO Insights - Top FREE Irish Genealogy Resources | Ireland Reaching Out

Smithsonian

Archaeologists Discover 900-Year-Old English Cathedral's Hidden Medieval Crypt

Once a Year, This 19th-Century Michigan Ghost Town Comes to Life 

'Perfectly Preserved' Glassware Recovered From 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck 

Roman-Era Cemetery With Over 100 Tombs Unearthed in Gaza 

See the Face of a Woman Who Died in a Shipwreck in 1628 

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England's Rejection of Religious Images

Trove of 700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins Discovered in Kentucky

See Stunning Tudor Tapestries Restored to Their Former Glory 

Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Evidence of 'Curry' Outside of India 

Have Archaeologists Finally Found Emperor Nero's Lost Theater?

4,000-Year-Old Cemetery Discovered Beneath Future Rocket Launch Pad in U.K.

Always Interesting    

allenrizzi Television Barffet     Lost Words From Our Childhood

The Confusing Sign  The Right Cheek   Photography

Pauline Conolly  THE DWARF EMU OF KING ISLAND

Humoring the Goddess   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fred Danziger   Ms. Fidget  Rainy Day Chores The Unicorn Tapestries

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Hot Air Balloons Arabella Proffer

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Juan Isasa

Textile Ranger Nature Photo Challenge #24: Edibles

ScrapHappy: The Next Generation

Jennifer Jones    Research Timeline: William Lloyd Taylor and Janet McEwan/McQueen

The Legal Genealogist Not whether, but how   You never know

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in Irish History | 14 August:

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Heart is a Star by Megan Rogers

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Night in Passchendaele by Scott Bennett 

Farewell to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez. READ MORE

Home to Echidna Lane by Eva Scott  READ MORE

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman READ MORE

Podcast: Emily Perkins on Identity, Visibility and Feminism    LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Dianne Yarwood on the Near-Death Experience that Inspired Her Debut LISTEN HERE

Allen & Unwin

Australian history to explore this month. (Six titles)

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Aug 2023,  great stories, family history  hints and items, buy your own lighthouse, 'one single tree'..hard to believe, Australian War Memorial news, Outback Family History, 

Lost Irish words, killer whales, bone vinyl, 40,000 skeletons in church, live mermaids, interesting blogs, book reviews and much more..

Feel free to share… the title is the link..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/08/friday-fossicking-11th-aug-2023.html

Headlines of Old

TROVE TUESDAY  15th Aug 2023   MILITARY PROMOTIONS & TRANSFERS , also new appointments, from various states…

They  even include some retirements… While these notices are from 1905, you can find other years to explore in TROVE.

Be open minded to the use of forenames, sometimes reversed or simplified. 

Feel free to share.. the title is the link.

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/08/trove-tuesday-15th-aug-2023-military.html