FRIDAY FOSSICKING 5th Jul 2024

GENERAL

GSQ Blog   Getting Started with AI in Family History.   Andrew Redfern (Artificial Intelligence)

NAA (National Archives of Australia) incl.  Murrulangalang story time Canberra | Every Wednesday, Jim Moginie in conversation Canberra | 7 July, Royal seal of approval   One of Australia’s few ceremonial objects associated with the monarchy is the Great Seal of Australia, which plays a unique role in Australia’s constitutional monarchy. Read more. 

* My Ancestors - Cemetery and burial records I haven't used this myself as yet, but thought it looked interesting. (Under the 'umbrella' of My Heritage.)

ATLAS OBSCURA

17 Epic Sandwiches Around the World   An Underwater Summer Camp For Saving Corals   See the Golden Arches Across Six Continents A Resplendent Burmese Temple Awaits  Crop Circle Gardens  An Electronics Store-Turned-Cafe  5 Intense Cycling Races  A Crash Course In Dracula Lore   Where Space Comes to Earth  How to Dye With Onion Skins   Machu Picchu and the Last Incan Bridges   Bob Dylan's Childhood Home  Contemplate Your Existence At This Chapel of Bones  Is That a Keyboard Embedded In the Pavement?  Why Is This Sewer Plant Named After a Comedian?  Take Care Climbing NYC’s Longest Step Street  7 Places to Let Your Family’s Imagination Run Wild in Florida  Why Are These Rivers Turning Orange? How to Tell a Great Campfire Story Penguin Mating Habits

Nachusa Grasslands HSBC Building Feng Shui Cannons  Ghost Stories Surround This 'Castle' That Was Never Built   The Original Movie Set for Luke Skywalker’s Home  Flying Saucer Patents 

6 Stories That Are Out of This World  Aliens, Angels, or Spiders?  Coyote's Flying Saucer Repair  Medano Creek Where Humans Think Aliens Are Most Likely to Land Roswell McDonald's Pinakothek der Moderne Futuro House  Discover Denver's Culinary Landscape 

JSTOR Daily

The Love Letter Generator That Foretold ChatGPT  The Seventeenth-Century Space Race (for the Soul)   Burlesque Beginnings   Power over Presidential Records   In the Mood for “Fake” Music?  A Utopia—for Some—in India  Wooden Kings and Winds of Change in Tonga

Smithsonian Magazine

The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2024    Missed the Auroras in May? Here’s How to See Them Next Time   Railbiking Is Catching On Across the Nation—Here's Where to Try It Yourself  Runners Have Raced in Colorado Tethered to Donkeys  An Ancient Beach Buried by Mount Vesuvius' Eruption Is Now Open to the Public  Discovery of 4,000-Year-Old Structure in Greece Stumps Archaeologists and Threatens Major Airport Construction   Will the Bistro Save France's Rural Villages?   

Interesting Blogs

The Russians were coming- to melbourne?… – Historical Ragbag

Family Quilt Mystery Solved     Textile Ranger

These Little Shoes A Silver Voice from Ireland

 June: Read, Listen, Watch, Repeat… Theresa Smith Writes

 Rock My World Humoring the Goddess

Posts from Outback Family History for 29/06/24   Moya Sharp

Lydia & Edgar Barclay – pioneer family Go West and Find Your Mate 

Coote and Maley – Brewers of Lawlers    Edjudina – carry me back to the bush when I die

Pauline Conolly 

PHILIP HARGRAVE – LOVE AND WAR  Philip Hargrave – A Child Prodigy & A Custody Case

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Storm Child by Michael Robotham  READ MORE

The Girl with the Violin by Shelley Davidow   READ MORE

Authors on Authors  WATCH HERE

Podcast: Francesca de Tores on Unveiling Gender Identity Through Historical Fiction

Currently Reading..

Two Daughters - Alison Edwards    Atlantic Books Australia

So far... different, interesting... will post a review once I finish it.

Recently Read... reviews will appear on my Confessions of a Bibliophile site as soon as I can.. 

My recent review was "The Radio Hour" by Victoria Purman.. can't wait to read more of her work.

The Girl With The Violin   Shelly Davidow  

The Nurses' War  Victoria Purman 

Iris & Ruby      Rosie Thomas

The Wartime Book Club  Kate Thompson

Black Sheep  Judy Nunn   

All the above were great stories... all well worth reading.

Last week's blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  27th June 2024, Brisbane Open House July 13-14th Program, Research Services- The Royal Historical Society of Qld, Japan’s deepest train station, summer camp ghost story, theaters/theatres that took their final bow, soup simmered for 50 years, pyramid tombs not in Egypt, Popeye museum… and so much more..

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/06/friday-fossicking-27th-june-2024.html

All the above brought to you despite a number of technical problems over the last week...

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