Friday, August 9, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 9th Aug 2024




GENERAL

GSQ Blog

What's New on Judy Webster's genealogy website


ATLAS OBSCURA

The Army of ‘Stork Sisters’   The Ancient Art of Roasting Agave  

R. Lee Ermey Musical Road  The Holy Grail of Texas Nature and Recreation   10 Delightful Pie Places to Dig Into  The Museum Celebrating Modern Skiing  Wild Brazil: Rivers, Dunes, and the Amazon  A Brief History of the ‘Danse Macabre’  Mini Statue of Liberty  Mignery Sculpture Garden Frescoes, Mushrooms, and the Garden of Eden A Fossil Mystery  Apiaries Turned Into Art  6 Epic Female Warriors  Exploring the Aurora Borealis  Step Into a Cowboy’s Boots and Saddle Up The Hottest Food Scene in São Miguel Scrabble Grave  Dive Into the Largest Archive Dedicated to Sherlock Holmes  Unlock the Secrets of The World’s Largest Collection of Locks   A Bridge That’s Likely an Unfinished Michelangelo Masterpiece  This Palace Belonged to a Family of Merchant Princes and Filmmakers   Hatfield & McCoy Moonshine 

Scotland’s Food Scene Beyond Haggis  Bitter Sports Rivalries, But For National Foods  Can Trees Hold Their Breath?  Foraging Natural Pigments  Scotland’s Oldest Tartan Dinosaur Journey Museum   Where 16 Men’s Hair Buns Are Buried  A Mysterious Moving Stone Ball  Why Is This Pylon Upside Down?  Take a Load Off In These Natural Hot Springs How a Courthouse Turned Into the Inquisitor’s Palace  


JSTOR Daily

The “Soundscape” Heard ’Round the World    Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?   Helpful Vultures, Night Skies, and Pakistani Activists  Brunei: A Tale of Soil and Oil   Motherhood in America: A Reading List   Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?  Foreign Magic in Imperial Rome Out with a Whimper  The Love Letter Generator That Foretold ChatGPT  History’s Footnotes  The Coldest Cream  How Two Rebel Physicists Changed Quantum Theory  Who Patented Patent Leather? Staying Cool: Helpful Hints From History   Designing the Dummies On the Anniversary of Iceland’s Independence Capturing the Civil War Archival Adventures in the Abernethy Collection  A True Crime Syllabus Israel and Gaza: A Syllabus of Background Readings  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures   The Art of Impressionism: A Reading List   Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A Background Reading List  Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated  Missouri Compromise of 1820: Annotated


ALWAYS INTERESTING
Humoring the Goddess  Faerie Paths — Lightly  Paula Rego
Pauline Conolly  BUTTER MADE BETTER?

CEMETERIES

REVIEWS
Penguin Books
Love Unleashed    Melanie Saward   READ A SNIPPET
Dive! Mike Carlton  CHECK IT OUT
Such Charming Liars Karen M. McManus  
The Grandest Game  Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Consultant  Jay Malkoun   TAKE ME THERE
The Lost Coast   Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman     HAVE A LOOK
Slow Dance Rainbow Rowell START READING

Better Reading
Book of the Week: 17 Years Later   J.P. Pomare READ MORE

and from my blog..

THAT MOMENT IN TIME


FRIDAY FOSSICKING  2nd Aug 2024, "Convict Tattoos", fire eating fungi, life in rural Qld, unusual way to find a maiden surname, suicide - cyanide & scones…authors on authors,  book reviews, cemeteries vandalised, Earl Grey’s Irish famine orphans, 90 year old letters, horror film sets, history’s footnotes.. and so much more… feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/08/friday-fossicking-2nd-aug-2024.html


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2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mention Chris. Some interesting reading here

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  2. You're welcome, Jennifer. Glad you enjoyed this.

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