FRIDAY FOSSICKING 9th Aug 2024

GENERAL

GSQ Blog

A Genealogist Explores St Kilda, Scotland.    Mia Bennett  

* 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

Jennifer Jones   Week 2: Family History Month

Humoring the Goddess  Faerie Paths — Lightly  Paula Rego

Monday Monday (repost)   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ludwig van Beethoven

Jenny MacKay Mumby Stud: A Century of Merino Magic in Western Australia

Pauline Conolly  BUTTER MADE BETTER?

Samantha Elley  'Nothing left in this world to mother'

Amy The John Nusbaum Album: Some Final Thoughts

CEMETERIES

Council's Dying to Know You Day - OurSC    

Israel's war on Gaza live: 2000 bodies 'kidnapped' from Gaza's graves - Al Jazeera  

No respite for the dead in Gaza | Reuters  

Eerie $1.5 million property for sale has 33,000 tenants - Domain  Wycombe: Cemeteries to start having Sunday burials - Bucks Free Press  Some Island cemeteries are running out of room for graves. Here's how they're coping

Scrap Metal Thieves Steal Plaques From Historic Cemeteries - The New York Times

Could the city of Greyfriars Bobby ban dogs from graveyards? - BBC 

Some Island cemeteries are running out of room for graves. Here's how they're coping.

Cranston cemeteries can't rest in peace 

As space dwindles in P.E.I. cemeteries, families look at new options | CBC.ca 

'One stone at a time': How one group is working to restore the City of Tonawanda Cemetery 

Families distraught after personal items removed from graves at Hartland cemetery - CBS 58

Step Inside This Haunted Texas Cemetery For A Good Scare 

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

Apprentice to the Villain Hannah Maehrer    READ AN EXTRACT

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

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware  READ AN EXTRACT

Authors on Authors : Petronella McGovern and Margaret Hickey   WATCH HERE

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..

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