Friday, March 1, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Mar 2024

 




GENERAL
GSQ Blog
Cairns Family History newsletter incl.  details re major changes to ANCESTRY lecture, Family History for Beginners lecture etc.

National Archives UK here incl.

Outback Family History

JSTOR Daily

GENEALOGY IRELAND
 
Atlas Obscura
When California Existed as an Island  What Do You Do With a ‘Failed’ Utopia?   Is This the Fountain of Youth?  The Shocking Meals Eaten by Past U.S. Presidents   The Circuit That Launched Legends    A Desert Cathedral Revealed  Grave of Jose Perfino at Oaklawn Cemetery Grave of Ed and Lorraine Warren paranormal investigators Browse the Ultimate Guide to Scattered Body Parts   Why Would You Build a Spite Wall?  This Seat Once Belonged to John Calvin   Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party  A Greener Greenhouse? An Immigrant’s Guide to American Scams   Pick an Orange, Find a Date  How Far Would You Go to Play Sports?  The Forgotten Hovertrain of the Future  Seattle’s Oldest Chinese Restaurant Favored by Bruce Lee  Angels and Micro-Organisms Decorate This Church  A '60s Bomb Shelter-Themed Bar Exists Virtually Unchanged   Big Idaho Potato Hotel  Tasting Secret Nun Cookies Requires Patience  Step Inside a Gorgeous, Ornate Victorian Marketplace Would You Try a Sweet Described As “Edible Incense” ?    The Brewery Celebrating Indigenous Culture  16 Places for the Cheese-Obsessed   This is the Site of the World's First KFC  Liars Should Avoid the “Mouth of Truth” Italy How Big Is the World’s Largest Beaver Dam?  The Watery Grave of One Man's Dreams The Victorian-era Women Wanted for Stealing Mummies  The Weird World of Sex Under the Sea  Peek Inside England’s Secret Wild West Town  Real-World Fairy Tale Landscapes    ‘America, America’ Sculpture  Missing WWII Plane Uncovered Australia  Train Station Made for Royalty, Now No One    Replica French Villa Reborn as Theme Park  The Birthplace of the Czech Klobasnek is … TexasU.S.’s First Roadside Candy Mansion Still as Sweet as Ever The Failed Floating McDonald’s of the '80s  Ghosts for Sale to the Willing  The Unlikely Friendship Between Humans and Gators When Squirrels Were America’s Most Popular Pets Just Who Created ‘Africa’s Stonehenge’ and Why  When and Where Did Humans Evolve  The Pork Buns New Yorkers Cried Over  Heritage Village   The Secret Figures Hiding in Swiss Maps The Internet’s Oldest Unsolved Mystery Cracking the Mystery of a 1,700-Year-Old EggAn Escher-esque Bookstore....An Asian bookstore chain transformed this former 1940s movie theater into a maze-like shop with mural-filled walls and live music.  Sacrilegious Spirits or Devout Drinks? A Former ‘Castle’ of Consumption  A Secluded Village Inaccessible by Road An Ancient Cave System That Rocks A Moorish Casino Slowly Disintegrating Memorial to a Doomed Arctic Expedition

INTERESTING LIBRARIES

ALWAYS INTERESTING
Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 26 February:


Reviews
Theresa Smith

Better Reading

Penguin Books

Allen & Unwin
Body of Lies Sarah Bailey
Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh
The Menopause Brain Lisa Mosconi PhD
The Great Housing Hijack Cameron K. Murray
Good With Money Emma Edwards
The Forest Wars David Lindenmayer
Mine is the Kingdom David Hardaker

*Vicki Adin author  ... read NEWSLETTER

* Interested? Manly Writers' Festival 14-16 March  READ MORE

from my blog...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23rd Feb 2024, Yorkshire's Atlantis, remembering Greek cuisine & heritage award, combustible cinema, village self sacrificed, treasure trove of documents in Limerick.. 300,000 UK farm records to be digitized, great blogs, world’s largest cheese slicer, Nazi treasure, Reno’s space whale… and more of the interesting and unbelievable… Feel free to share… 


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