FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Sep 2023

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog    

Things I Didn’t Know About My Mother. Peter Cass

Smithsonian 

Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave 

What Happened on the Trains That Brought Wounded World War II Soldiers Home? 

A Time Capsule Opened Live on Stage Was Empty. Later, Treasures Emerged From the Silt 

The Baseball Player-Turned-Spy Who Went Undercover to Assassinate the Nazis' Top Nuclear Scientist 

Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery

Historians Discover 'Remarkably Intact' Shipwreck, Undisturbed Beneath Lake Michigan for 142 Years 

How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression 

1,000-Year-Old Mummy With a Full Head of Hair Discovered in Peru 

Students Unearth Forgotten 142-Year-Old Observatory Buried on Michigan State's Campus

Archaeologists Are Using Modern Tools to Learn About Visitors to an Ancient Egyptian Temple 

Boy Playing in Sandbox Finds 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coin 

Mysterious 3,800-Year-Old Canaanite Arch and Stairway Unearthed in Israel

Henry VIII’s Book of Psalms Reflects His Quest for Legitimacy—and His Fear of Death

The Dog Who Served on Both Sides of the American Revolution

JStor Daily

The Daguerreotype's Famous. Why Not the Calotype?  

Reaching New Spiritual Heights Through Hula Hooping   

Feminist Film Theory: An Introductory Reading List

Shine On You Eagle Diamond

Artificial Intelligence and Education: A Reading List

Vanillagate? Ice Cream Parlors and White Slavery

Atlas Obscura

The Father of Medieval Geography  Hobbiton NZ  

Reserva Curi Cancha  Costa Rica’s Last Colorful Oxcart Factory

The 'Home Alone' House The 'Grand Canyon of Maine

An Immovable Holy Ladder  38 Culinary Timewarps

Sustainable Forestry The Real-Life Location of Rohan NZ

Inside the Museum of Material Failures  An Iconic Cathedral In New Orleans  The Devil Lurks In This Bible  A Crumbling Mansion Inside a Zoo  “Chicken Farmer, I Still Love You” Audley Square Spy Lamp Post   A Castle Once Home To a Robber Baron 13 Unusual Facts

 How to Run The World’s Last Gas-Lamp Theater 

Cook a Feast in a Microwave  Swimming with Whale Sharks

A Public Bathroom That’s Also Art   A Reconstructed Norman Castle  

One Village’s Glittering Solar Oven Inside the JCPenney Mother Store

America’s Oldest Italian Restaurant  Toilet Cabinet of Ferdinand VII

An Elusive Treasure—Or a Fraud? A Love Letter to Taiwan’s Foodways  Ponyhenge  The Power of Place-Based Storytelling

Why Does This Sea Glow in the Dark? Museums On Campus

St. Omer Cemetery Witch Grave  The Lost Waters of Kathmandu

Discover 9 Hidden Wonders in Kansas City Spot Durham’s Hidden Dinosaur  Duck Down a Secret Street  A Mansion With a Tragic History  A Haunted Bridge Used For Witch Trials

A Roadside Hotel You Can’t Stay At  This Observatory Sits at the “Top of Europe”

Irish Genealogy

New research and genealogy resources added to Clare Local Studies Centre  

Genealogy Today: Route 66, maple 'sirup' and a Celtic cross | Get Out - Green Valley News 

Brigidine Sisters celebrate 140 years as educators, pioneers in Coonamble, NSW - ABC

Family History Society embark on new season - Ballymena Guardian 

Celebrating our Irish connections - Angus Robertson 

Always Interesting

Pauline Conolly The Wall Garden

Mary Harvey; Tasmania’s Grace Darling

The Legal Genealogist Thank you, David!  Truth Ancestry’s annual rules update 2023

Humoring the Goddess Conspiracy Theories Boris Vallejo

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kelly Louise Judd  Water Pitchers

Faerie Paths — Be Yourself   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Clark Sorensen Guy Buffet

allenrizzi Of Horse Whisperers And Men The Godfather’s Priest?

Mt. Roen       Chiara – The Novella  Reading The Label    

When It Was Time To Say Goodbye

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage  6 year anniversary at Cosy Cottage

Textile Ranger Exotic Animals in Texas   Native Wild Animals of Texas     Native Animals of North America

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey    Friederike Blumenfeld Schoen, Part I: Her Life and Her Children

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  

#OTD in Irish History | 18 September: 

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Sitter by Angela O’Keeffe

Book Review: The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman   READ MORE

The Modern by Anna Kate Blair     READ MORE

Resurrection by Roger Simpson     READ MORE

Podcast: Melanie Saward on Exploring the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma  

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Podcast: Sasha Wasley on the League of Photographers that Inspired Snapshots from Home

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and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Sept 2023, Moorabbin Hospital records 1948+, newsletters, Irish Travellers, world’s largest quilting needle, 

suspended lake, Tolkien’s grave, haunting legends in witch’s castle, 

Irish version of your surname?, 8,000 yr old village on stilts, great blogs, book reviews and so much more..

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-15th-sept-2023.html

Headlines of Old

CONVICT BURIALS .. Trove Tuesday 19th Sep 2023, various states, recognising various burials, places & deceased.. we are fortunate to have access to all manner of stories about our ‘Australian Royalty’ as they are often referred to. Further links at the end of the page…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/09/convict-burials-trove-tuesday-19th-sep.html