FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th June 2024

GENERAL

GSQ Blog    Joseph Guidice: An Enigma wrapped in several Mysteries. An electronic records investigation.     Geoff Doherty

Interesting Items

15 Jul 1937 - Diocese of Lismore. - Trove (Parish of Bellingen)

Research Services — The Royal Historical Society of Queensland

Brisbane Open House | Unlock Your City July 13 +14 Program

National Library Australia

How do I research my family history? 

State Library of Western Australia

State Library of South Australia  

State Library of New South Wales

State Library of Queensland

State Library Victoria

Libraries Tasmania: Home

Northern Territory Library    

ACT Heritage Library     (Australian Capital Territory)

ATLAS OBSCURA

India’s Music and Millets  9 Pyramid Tombs Not In Egypt 

Pix-O-Matic The Mussels Monitoring Poland’s Water The Sir William Wallace Statue Scotland Lumberton River Walk The History of Blood Consumption  The Ponce de León Hotel  Florida 10 Reasons to Visit Asheville During the Week Atlas Obscura Goes to Summer Camp

Horror Movies and Summer Camps   Where New Year Happens In June Rock Springs Orlando Balto the Sled Dog An Ancient Holy Well Still Stands in Glasgow A Floating Architectural Experiment   Inside an Abandoned New York City Subway Station  Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum  A Heartbreaking Memorial To Two Postal Workers   Everyone’s A Happy Camper Here   Theaters That Took Their Final Bow   What’s Up With Mount Shasta? How to Befriend a Bird  11 Unique Summer Fun Ideas  The Red Ghost of Quartzsite  Panoramic Discoveries: Griffith Observatory  The Giant Boulder with Extraterrestrial Connections  The Otherworldly Creature Taking Over a Parking Garage Kentucky  A Lake That’s Home to the “Chinese Nessie” China  Soup That’s Simmered For 50 Years  Thailand

The Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library Area 21 Cusco

The Art of the Summer Camp Ghost Story  One of Nature’s Hardest-Working Architects  How to Read Wildlife Tracks and Signs  Sankt Peders Bageri  Denmark Dugout Canoes at Lake Phelps of Pettigrew State Park  25 Coffee Shops to Visit Before You Die  Watergate Fountain Moto Museum Missouri Why the Woods At Night Are So Terrifying  The Roots of the American Summer Camp How to Get Into a Kayak  A Forgotten 1920s Dessert  Japan’s Deepest Train Station

Step Inside The Oldest Dim Sum Restaurant In the U.S. This Museum Takes Clowning Business Very Seriously  Okinawa’s Oldest Stone Lion Survived A Major WWII Battle  The Story Behind Chimney Rock and Its Companion  Popeye Museum and Spinach Can Collectibles   

and from my blog...   

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  21st Jun 2024, great selection of interesting blogs…What did the first person to see X Ray pictures think?, tribute to Frank Sinatra’s music, gardens turning fog into food, why we tell bees about death, tower of Baa-Goat, the affair of the poisons, who took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola?, fire eating fungi, unmasking a 19th Century occult imposter..and much more..

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st Jun 2024

GENERAL

BSQ Blog   Ada Baker – From gentility to domestic service in the colony.  Christine Leonard

* Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans(98):Addendum to the last post | trevo's Irish famine orphans

* The Prospector who dug his own Grave - Outback Family History

*  THE CHOCOLATE QUEEN OF SYDNEY - Pauline Conolly

ATLAS OBSCURA

A World Tour of Abandoned Amusement Parks    Inside the World of ‘Art Dropping’   What Did The First Person to See X-Rays Think?  How to Be a Water Judge    Floating Along with Florida’s Gentle Giants    A Taiwanese Island’s Prehistoric Ruins    This House Is a Tribute to Frank Sinatra’s Music   These Basketball Courts Come With a Scenic View   The Abandoned Bus of Scarista Beach  The Gardens Turning Fog Into Food   Ghost Town Graveyards   Dugout Canoes at Lake Phelps of Pettigrew State Park   Pecan Pie Vending Machine   Do You Remember The Lore of Candle Cove? Macaque Behavior   Villa de Vecchi Italy  Don’t Disturb This Sleeping Person—Uh, Sculpture   All The Stories Hidden In This Mexican Cemetery  The Samurai Standing In An Italian City  Is This a Sci-Fi Set Or Residential Building?    Black Wall Street Durham    Why We Tell Bees About Death  5 Weird Flag Stories   Cozy Dog Drive In  The Story of Laffing Sal   Pirate Paradise: 8 Essential Stops for Buccaneers in Florida   Tomb of Christopher Columbus   8 Ferris Wheels With Stellar Views The Atlas Obscura Guide to West Virginia  Walt Disney’s Lamp   The Gastro Obscura Guide to Asheville Area Eats  Juneteeth, Its Significance, and Everything That Came After   A Civil Rights Icon’s Vegetarian Cookbook   This Underground Kitchen Funded the Civil Rights Movement   Fighting Incarceration With Food Missouri’s One-of-a-Kind Restaurants   Site of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in    The Humble Hole-in-the-Wall Boasting Civil Rights History  This Mural Pays Homage to Famous Black Americans   Dive Into the Rich Diversity of African American Cuisine   The Domain of the "Queen of Creole Cuisine”  Tower of Baa-Goat  Lake Nona Sculpture Garden The Affair of the Poisons  Kamiiso no Torii Japan Panoramic Discoveries: Mono Lake  Unmasking a 19th Century Occult Imposter O'Reilly Spite House  The Xbox Inventor Also Baked 4,500-Year-Old Bread  Sumida Hokusai Museum Tokyo The Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights

JSTOR Daily

Colorful Lights to Cure What Ails You  Sheet Music: the Original Problematic Pop?    Pas de Deux With Cancel Culture  The Race to Be the Tallest Building in the World    On the Anniversary of Iceland’s Independence  Luanda, Angola: The Paradox of Plenty   Reading for Juneteenth  Saturn’s Ocean Moon Enceladus Is Able to Support Life    The Race to Be the Tallest Building in the World  Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?  Archival Adventures in the Abernethy Collection  Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated  The Vital Near-Magic of Fire-Eating Fungi  Nellie Bly Experiences It All   Time in a Box    Capturing the Civil War    A True Crime Syllabus   Israel and Gaza: A Syllabus of Background ReadingsCelebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures   Watching an Eclipse from Prison   Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated    The Mathematical Pranksters behind Nicolas Bourbaki   The Physics of Karate  The Vital Near-Magic of Fire-Eating Fungi 

Better Reading

BREAKING NEWS!   Introducing Authors on Authors, Michael Connelly and Candice Fox .. WATCH EPISODE ONE

Book of the Week: The Skeleton House by Katherine Allum    READ AN EXTRACT

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter   READ MORE

Podcast: Lisa Medved on Art, Travel and Writing Historical Fiction      LISTEN HERE

The Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers   FIND OUT HERE

From my blog..

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jun 2024

Did Victorians Cover Table legs for Modesty Reasons, How a frozen woman lived, cemetery & burial records, importance of June 14th, world’s largest things only in Missouri, Skylight Inn bbq, remains of Old London Bridge, book reviews ..plus so much more..

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jun 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ BLOG  Sandemanians: Searching for traces of my Nonconformist ancestors in London.  Karyn Walker

My Ancestors - Cemetery and burial records

IMPORTANCE of June 14th...

Flag Day    Germany invades Paris    National Bourbon Day     International Bath Day  National Strawberry Shortcake Day  

Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory   Pop Goes the Weasel Day

National New Mexico Day      Greece Twa Flight 847 Hijack 

Australia

1825- Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales ...

also

• 1851 – Gold discovered at the Turon River, New South Wales, the diggings became the richest in New South Wales.
• 1883 – Trains link Sydney and Melbourne.
• 1893 – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.

ATLAS OBSCURA

One of History's Most Lavish Tombs Belongs to a Woman   The Ancient Secrets Hidden in 41,000 Bison Bones  A Saint's Sword in the Stone    The ‘World's Largest’ Things That You Can Only Find in Missouri   From Seed to Significance    Monument to Mountain Dew  Panoramic Discoveries: Griffith Observatory  USA   Global Grave Goods in Bali   Behold, the Indian Vetala   7 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt You   Gastro Obscura’s Guide to Eating Your Way Through Charlotte   Yoda Guy Movie A Top-Secret Royal Meeting Chamber    Fancy Visiting This Original Dalí Sculpture?   This Gingerbread House Is Straight Out of a Fairy Tale   This Is the Only Paris Métro Sign Outside Paris CANADA Oklahoma National Stockyards   Dijon’s Last Mustard Maker Dine Among the Dead Spaceburgers

Antarctica’s Coolest Bar  How a Frozen Woman Lived Colorado Has 697 Sides   Kenova's Pumpkin House Anxious Skiers Can Find Hidden Martinis Along These Ski Slopes  Skylight Inn BBQ    A Bridge That Once Was The Only Crossing at the Colorado River

Spot the Mysterious Shape In This Painting  This Tiny Island’s Gone to the Birds (Pelicans)  Panoramic Discoveries: The Armstrong Redwoods  Did Victorians Cover Table Legs For Modesty Reasons?  Monkey Slugs and Mailboxes  Museum of Pharmacy    Where The Wild Things Are: 8 Animal Experiences in Florida Stop and Smell the Flowers   Geoffrey Chaucer Statue  The Fruit Reforestation of Puerto Rico Remains of the Old London Bridge  Marshall High Studios

Solved: The Mystery of a Medieval Ink  What Was The First Cocktail?  Curry Powder’s Surprising History From a Kraken to Stolen Docs  Everyone’s A Happy Camper Here   The Grave of Sandra West (different) An Homage to a Beloved Character World’s First Darth Vader Monument Ukraine Big Delight Awaits You in Vermont’s Tiny Bread Box  How a Real Estate Agent Saved Myrtle Beach’s Pinball 

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Skeleton House by Katherine Allum   READ AN EXTRACT

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter   READ MORE

The Love Interest by Helen Comerford     READ AN EXTRACT

Podcast: Lisa Medved on Art, Travel and Writing Historical Fiction

LISTEN HERE

and from my blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Jun 2024, GSQ Blog.. Pauleen Cass, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives news, Judy Webster’s Family Tree, cemetery & burial records, My Greek Odyssey, Visit Canberra, Bonny & Clyde audio, dark side to solar storms, tombstone for mysterious woman, old Filipino cemetery, murderous monk, and much more…

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Jun 2024

 GENERAL

GSQ Blog “Grab & Go” or “Go Slow”  Pauleen Cass

 Australian War Memorial EMEMORIAL newsletter June 2024

National Archives | June 2024 see list of various events over a number of areas and states.    Green Shadows - the Papuan Infantry Battalion

29 Aug 1891 - IN GOD'S ACRE. - Trove

27 Jan 1911 - Bishop Carroll's Visit to the Bellinger. - Trove

Interesting

Judy Webster's Family Tree maybe you are connected ..

My Ancestors - Cemetery and burial records

Adavale’s Blackwater Hotel, aka ‘The Dog & Vomit’ – TIME GENTS

My Greek Odyssey where to watch

Visit Canberra

What's on this winter  The best adventures for the school holidays Tasty truffles you need to try  Canberra's best-kept secret nature spots

Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao National Art Gallery

The Forage    and more''

Genealogy Leftovers: Genealogy Do-Over or Source-Based Incremental Fix?

ATLAS OBSCURA

The Twisty, Backstabbing History of Coney Island’s Dueling Theme Parks    The Mysterious Case of Domesticated Cats Prison de Kara Morocco  Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum audio Tiny, Parachuting Baby Spiders Are All Around Us   Paris’s Catacomb Mushrooms Eldheimar Museum Iceland Mosquito Summer Camp  What Do Schools Around the World Eat?  The Dark Side to Solar Storms  What We’re Reading Right Now The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art  Desierto de los Leones (Desert of the Lions)  Discover Local History Through Miniatures  A Tombstone For a Mysterious Woman  This Would Have Been Scotland’s Biggest Piece of Landscape Art  Frozen Dead Guy podcast  The ‘Kranks,’ ‘Fiends,’ and ‘Rooters’ Who Came Before Fans The Ancient Armored Arachnid Earth’s Shifting Plates Are a Good Thing The Ludlow Massacre Site   The Shrine Maiden Who Gave Us Kabuki Out in the Wilderness, These Train Tracks Lead to Nowhere  Tribute to a Bear Victim of a Drug Trafficker’s Bizarre Death A ‘Palatial’ Housing Complex Doubles as a Sci-Fi Dystopian Set This Choctaw/Thai Spot Celebrates Global Indigenous Cuisine These Crabs Are Big, Criminal, and May Have Eaten Amelia Earhart Are Big Cats Prowling City Suburbs?  A Massive Cheese Empire in a Rural Town Step Inside the Atalaya Castle Exploring the Mystery of the ‘Well of Hell’   Preserving the History of Louisiana’s Centuries-Old Filipino Community  The Murderous Monk and a Worried Mother

From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shocking’: Ranking Bug Stings   A Touching Tribute for a ‘Wonky Donkey’  The Last Remnant of a City's Silent Film Glory    Grab a Key to Unlock the Doors to This Medieval Sewer    

A Salt Mine’s Picnic Spots Ideal for Families and Asthmatics

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Down the Track by Stella Quinn    READ MORE

Read an Extract: The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

Podcast: Catherine Doyle on Merging Fantasy with Real-World Themes    LISTEN HERE

and from my posts...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 31st May 2024 incl.  worker's dwelling Act 1909, 160 yr old artefacts, time in a box, artful rare books, island made of shells, taking China by storm, secret language of prairie dogs, top secret nuclear bunker..and so much more…

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