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

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Mar 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog

Arrival of the Artemisia: an “important event in the annals of Moreton Bay – an epoch to be often reverted to”  Stephanie Ryan (John Oxley Library/State Library Queensland)Welcome to Old Ballan, the cemetery where State Trustees bury the dead with nowhere else to go - ABC News

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

Eltham District Historical Society Inc.  Heritage Walk: Walking the Kurrum Yallock (Plenty River) – Saturday, 2nd March 2024

National Archives UK here incl.

Hear remarkable stories of Second World War captives

The guerrilla force who helped POWs in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong

We are digitising the 1941 National Farm Survey

You can visit Great Escapes on Sundays

Outback Family History

The Oldest Stockman in WA       The Kanowna Roll of Honour-

The Farren’s of the Falls Hotel – by Jill Peady     Sailor Bill’s Elopement

JSTOR Daily

“Heed Their Rising Voices”: Annotated  The Sweet Story of Condensed Milk  PG-13: Some Material May Be Inappropriate    Nuremberg: City of Dreams and Nightmares

Anaxagoras and the Eclipse: The First to Get It Right    

Black Women Were Also Lynched

Why Some Spartan Women Had Two Husbands

GENEALOGY IRELAND

Joe Biden delves into family history at end of Ireland trip - Times of Malta   Cleveland Evans: Sean has roots in Irish ancestry - Omaha World-Herald  Rensselaer County Ranks 10th in U.S. for Irish Ancestry: Upstate NY's Celtic Heritage Spotlighted

 

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 … Texas? U.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

CareMalta opens library at Villa Messina in Rabat - Times of Malta 

The Atlanta Braves DO have some interesting position battles that need to be decided by ... - KSDK 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Humoring the Goddess How Old is Old?  Having a Stained Glass Ball!  Isabella Jolie Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Glen Martin Taylor  Larsa Bernhardt  Faerie Paths — Radical Amazement

Anne Young That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet Fire at Eurambeen

Jennifer Jones Life of a Genie – January and February 2024

allenrizzi If I Had Another Life To Live

Pauline Conolly MOLONG AND THE EARL OF HARDWICKE    THE AURORA & THE ANTARCTIC BOTTLE – A MYSTERY

Laura Hedgecock RootsTech 2024 Virtual Conference: Great Content for Writers and Storytellers

Brotmanblog: A Family History The Children of Katincka Blumenfeld Heymann: Lost and Found and Lost Again

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

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns

February: Read, Listen, Watch, Repeat…

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Tilda is Visible by Jane Tara      READ MORE

Joy Moody is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne      READ MORE

Penguin Books

We Solve Murders    Richard Osman 

Lone Wolf    Gregg Hurwitz     CHECK IT OUT

Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not  Imbi Neeme  START READING

The Catch    Amy Lea  READ A SNIPPET

Hidden Potential   Adam Grant    LEARN MORE

The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright

The Book of Doors Gareth Brown  READ AN EXTRACT

Allen & Unwin

Body of Lies Sarah Bailey

All the Words We Know Bruce Nash

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

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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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