Friday, October 27, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Oct 2023

 



GENERAL

GSQ Blog ‘Louise Christina Schattling’ Sue Bell

Genealogy tips for Queensland, the UK etc - Judy Webster

TROVE Treasures incl. GHOST SIGNS  Hauntology

First Australian  Leader   Read the Paper  How to Search

Outback Family History

Meat For the Fields – the Rowell Boys 

Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn

When the Legacy of Early Mining Created a Modern Problem

Smithsonian

These Beautiful Barns Tell the Story of the United States   

This September Was the Earth’s Hottest on Record

Fall Into Autumn With These 15 Foliage Photos 

These Ten Stunning Images Prove That Small Is Beautiful

You Can Eat These Sculptures at Tate Britain   

The World Has a New Hottest Pepper 

Take a Trip Through Edgar Allan Poe's America

JStor Daily

Revisiting Yeshayahu Leibowitz      The History of Precrime

Sylvia Plath's Fascination with Bees

Dawn of the Bathroom       Cape Verde's Dilemma(s)Stonehenge 

Before the Druids (Long, Long, Before The Druids)

The First Black American to Reach the North Pole 

Atlas Obscura

How Pharaohs Ensured Company In Death   A 1960s Recipe for Fallout Shelter Food  The Cornell Apple Vending Machine  

18 Places for Epic Outdoor Adventure Across Colorado

The Beauty of the Necrobiome  World’s Second-Largest Giant Sequoia

Where Aliens Might Land    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

The Atlas Obscura Guide to Myrtle Beach  Wheels of Yesteryear

Live Oak Allée at Brookgreen Gardens  Kirk's 1890 Ice Cream Parlor

10 Places to Wait Out Zombies What’s More Terrifying Than Haunted Houses?  Best Halloween Songs    A Haunted Grocery Store

9 Hidden Wonders in Costa Rica   The Hidden Resting Place of Harry Houdini   A Girl Who Died of a Broken Heart   The Grave of Mary Shelley   The Mystery of a Grave with Both Chains and Stakes   

The Grave of New England’s Last "Vampire  A Deeply Haunted House

Quasi, the Hand with a Face Wellington, N. Z. Stone Skimming

Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth     Houdini v. Doyle

A “Forbidden Forest” Vampire Grave of Lafayette

An Early 20th-Century Confectionery  The Demonic Goatman’s Bridge   Here Be Dragons (Gates) Ireland  Real-World Zombies

How to Eat Like an Occultist   A Sneaky Bust

The Bird That Heralds Death  Georgetown's Haunted Halcyon House

A Secret Scottish Shrine  Medieval Bee Spells

Which States Have The Most Dead Presidents?

A Forgotten Queen   An Art Nouveau Hospital

The Woods Around England's "Most Haunted Village"

Step Inside an Abandoned Extravagant Hotel 

The Colossal Arctic Henge

 PODCAST What Automata Tells Us About AI   PODCAST Tracing the Origins of Lacrosse   PODCAST Nasothek Noses 

PODCAST The Wishing Tree 

Irish Genealogy

Cork man finds long-lost sister after 50 years with podcast's help - IrishCentral 

Tech giants Yahoo and Ancestry take offices in Dublin's tallest office tower | Independent.ie 

Video: Palestinian-Irish man shelters 90 people in Gaza home - The Globe and Mail

Spooky Irish ghost town of Bantry, North Dakota - IrishCentral

Always Interesting

Humoring the Goddess  Collage of Cats — My Kawaii Quarter (repost)   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Chesley Bonestell 

Sarka Evans The Marvel of Music Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fabio Gomes Trindade      Oldest Books in the World

Don’t Acerbate the Problem   Mariko Kusumoto

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey  Friederike Blumenfeld Schoen, Part III: Her Son Moses Escapes to America

Chris Wright The Ancestor Digger

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage   A trip to Hoghton Tower

allenrizzi Who Gets Your Stuff?      The K38 1/2 Story

Jennifer Jones  One Place Study Update

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland   #OTD in Irish History | 23 October:

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Natural History of Love by Caroline Petit

Book Review: Weyward by Emilia Hart

Book Review: One of Those Mothers by Megan Nicol Reed

Better Reading

The sequel to The Firm – Mitch McDeere returns! John Grisham WATCH THE TRAILER     

Read an Extract from The Exchange

Book of the Week: Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris

READ MORE

Spring Has Sprung: Discover Five Fabulous Reads to Enjoy This Season   READ MORE

Podcast: Rachel Matthews on the Absurdity and Challenges of Modern Dating  LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Levi Pinfold on Harry Potter, Illustrating and Picture Books

LISTEN HERE

BE Better Podcast: Kaz Cooke on Menopause     LISTEN HERE

Penguin Books

The Secret   Lee & Andrew Child (brothers)   Reacher is back!  START READING

Hidden Potential  Adam Grant   SEE THE BOOK

The Tw*t Files   Dawn French     CHECK IT OUT

No Brainer  Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid continues 

READ A SNIPPET

Remember Love Cleo Wade  TAKE ME THERE

Good Material      Dolly Alderton's Out 7 Nov.  PRE-ORDER NOW

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING  20th Oct 2023, your own graveyard?, Shrek's swamp, beauty of Italy, Banned books in USA, town of witches, cinematic history, grave of the potato king, vampire rabbit of Newcastle, the Devil’s House, podcasts, newsletters, 128 years in a funeral home, Kirk’s1890 Ice Cream Parlor, town of witches,

Giant sun mirrors, great blogs, book reviews & a whole lot more…

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Headlines of Old


PENSIONERS IN CONVICT SHIPS   Trove Tuesday. 24th Oct 2023, Western Australia, 1850.. Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival.

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Friday, October 20, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 20th Oct 2023

 


GENERAL

GSQ Blog Joseph and the Tarporley Manor House’. Di Edelman

Why the Dennis Family have their own graveyard - ABC listen

Cairns Family History newsletter  incl. A Family Mystery 

newsletter 2

Outback Family History

Five Marriages and a Murder Trial –    Mrs Walshaw of Comet Vale

Home Made Adventures by Stan Gratte

Smithsonian

You Can Stay in a Re-Creation of Shrek's Swamp in Scotland

How to Watch the Annular 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse on Saturday 

Almost 1,000 Birds Died in One Night From Striking a Chicago Building 

England's Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Has Been Chopped Down 

These 15 Photos Capture the Beauty of Italy

After Federal Investigation, United Airlines Agrees to Make Changes for Travelers With Wheelchairs 

Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs 

'Love Locks' at the Grand Canyon Could Be Harming Endangered California Condors

Fall Into Autumn With These 15 Foliage Photos 

London's Historic Old War Office Building Becomes a Luxury Hotel 

Flamingos Spotted in Wisconsin for First Time on Record Amid String of Rare Appearances

See Inside the Newly Reopened Tenement Museum 

New 'Little Prince' Statue Sits Near Central Park and Gazes Up at the Stars

The Real History Behind 'Killers of the Flower Moon' 

See Underwater Wreckage From the Battle of Midway in Stunning Detail 

Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe's Oldest Sandals

Pennsylvania Mummy Gets a Proper Burial After 128 Years in a Funeral Home 

The Bible That Stopped a Bullet   A Brief History of Banned Books in America

Archaeologists Uncover Notched Logs That May Be the Oldest Known Wooden Structure 

Irish Genealogy 


JStor Daily

Atlas Obscura

Always Interesting
Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey For My Cousins in Israel
humoringthegoddess Alexis Auguste Delahogue   

Reviews

Better Reading


Penguin Books Australia