Showing posts with label interesting blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interesting blogs. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 16th Aug 2024



GENERAL
GSQ Blog      Connecting to a Forgotten Past Christine Leonard
Outback Family History


 National Library of Australia
 Click here for details   incl. Hopes & Fears - A new free exhibition

Interesting Library

Atlas Obscura
An Alchemist Turned Counterfeiter   A Cafe In a Bank  Cranberry Glades Botanical Area  Luftskipsmasta Norway Can We Save Florida’s Ailing Manatees?  Wondrous Independent Bookstores Where to Find Ancient Greek Food In Athens Bitter Sports Rivalries, But For National Foods  8 Eggcellent Places  Can Trees Hold Their Breath?   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  Why Was Regency London Obsessed With “Pig-Faced” Ladies? How Salmon Helps Bugs 11 Puppet Palaces The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript  Explore the Wilds of New Zealand John Henry Monument  Hernando's Pizza Pub A Dragon Once Crashed Into This Rock (Allegedly)  The Aquarium Located Inside an Old Nuclear Bunker Where Visitors Can Dive Into the World of Caterpillars  Nevada’s Newest State Park Is All About Megafauna Fossils  Viking Hell Is Very, Very Metal  When Fandom and Food Collide Record-Setting Hikes  The Sounds of Pando How to Explore West Virginia’s Underground Wonders   The Oldest Civic Library In Italy  One Of The World's First Animatronic Dinosaurs A Poignant Memorial For a Diminutive Canine Hero  Behold, an Impressive Dragon Made of Cutlery!   Where You Can Step Into The Past Of An Andalusian Town 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  The Pacific Northwest Needs to Thank Lampreys Cookbooks Celebrating Indian American Ingenuity Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden Ute Ethnobotany Garden at the Ute Indian Museum  Who’s Beheading These Millipedes?  Garden of the Sleeping Giant  The Birding Basics to Find Winged Friends  Tía Sandalia House Museum   

genealogy Ireland

J Stor Daily

Smithsonian

Cemeteries
More re Drayton, Qld, desecration of cemetery... Tombstones flattened in cemetery desecration - Western Advocate  

Interesting Blogs
Textile Ranger  Puppy Cuteness 
The Legal Genealogist  NARA NYC closing

Theresa Smith Writes

Penguin Books Australia
Love Unleashed Melanie Saward  READ A SNIPPET
Dive! Mike Carlton     CHECK IT OUT 
The Grandest Game    Jennifer Lynn Barnes              
The Lost Coast Clay Edison      HAVE A LOOK

and from my blog...


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 9th August 2024, Webster's Dictionary 1828, A Fossil Mystery, moonshine, love letter generator, scrabble grave, helpful vultures, book reviews.. Interesting blogs, who took the cocaine out of Coca-Cola?, world’s largest collection of locks, Miguel Scrabble Grave.. and so much more…

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Friday, May 24, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th May, 2024


GSQ Blog
Do check the GSQ Blog page for some earlier great blogs..


Atlas Obscura

JSTOR Daily

Interesting Items

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Karen Brooks read about the

background to some of her very interesting books incl. The Locksmith's Daughter and The Darkest Shore ...

 

* See below...

My Review..

wonderful insight to years gone by, along with earlier radio series.. charming story of a woman who changed earlier radio series.. historical fiction at it's best.. My review here


( I won this book in a competition.. just loved it ... you can see my review via the above link...)

and from my blog...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 17th May 2024,  strawberry parties, 

publican's lonely death, top 100 book list, Antartica photos, GSQ Blog..  and more…feel free to share..


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/05/friday-fossicking-17th-may-2024.html


" If you have a book to read, you're never alone.."
Advice from my parents and always remembered.


Friday, March 1, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Mar 2024

 




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

National Archives UK here incl.

Outback Family History

JSTOR Daily

GENEALOGY IRELAND
 
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 … TexasU.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

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


Reviews
Theresa Smith

Better Reading

Penguin Books

Allen & Unwin
Body of Lies Sarah Bailey
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

from my blog...

That Moment in Time


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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