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..

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Friday, August 2, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 2nd Aug 2024



GENERAL

GSQ Blog    Convict tattoos   Yvonne Tunny

JStor Daily

Atlas Obscura

Always Interesting
Gin Gin’s three pubs – Time Gents
Wandering Through Creativity  Humoring the Goddess

Outback Family History

Cemeteries

Penguin Books Australia
The Creeper Margaret Hickey READ A SNIPPET
Back to Birdsville    Fiona McArthur  READ AN EXTRACT

Better Reading
Artificial intelligence explained..

from my blog...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Jul 2024, “Wondering WHY? ..” (Read Shauna Hick’s blog post), Queen of the Dancehalls: Cloudland Ballroom in Brisbane 1939-1982, Seven Best Towns in NSW, magic spells for bees?, America’s loneliest roads, Memorial Cemetery mistakenly sold at auction, great blogs and much more…

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Friday, July 26, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th July 2024

 


GENERAL

GSQ Blog   
Queensland State Archives (QSA) newsletter incl. talk re "Queen of the Dancehalls: Cloudland Ballroom in Brisbane 1939-1982" 
11am-12pm Friday 2 August 2024
Queensland State Archives 435 Compton Rd, Runcorn Must Register
Other session details can be seen on initial newsletter

* Historical records / other genealogy sources: Judy Webster's indexes



Seven Best Towns in NSW
World Atlas        NSW's charming towns, from Byron Bay to Kiama, offer unique escapes with history, culture, and natural beauty for memorable visits. (Have to agree re these, but I'd like to add a few more... what would you like to add?)

Atlas Obscura

Gastro Obscura read here 
Includes Athens- Greece,  Penang- Malaysia,   Sydney-Australia, 
Las Vegas - Nevada, Lagos - Nigeria, Santiago - Chile, Beijing - China, Houston - Texas,  Sao Miguel- Portugal...

Cemeteries

Memorial Cemetery gets historical marker year after mistakenly being sold at auction 

Harnett cemetery under fire from families wanting cleanliness - YouTube 

Marker unveiled for historic Black Cemetery - FOX 13 Tampa Bay 

'48 States Tour' for saving America's graveyards includes Boxwood on Aug. 6 | Orleans Hub

Written in stone, literally - Deccan Herald 

Russia's grave investments: Soaring cemetery expenditures amid war - MSN 

Barry's 'Letters to Loved Ones' at Merthyr Dyfan cemetery | Barry And District News

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on - The Jerusalem Post 

Hudson veteran cleans gravestones of fallen soldiers - Community Advocate 

Overgrown--Council approves contract to maintain city's five cemeteries | The Northside Sun 

Crowded cemeteries raise tensions between CAR's Muslims and Christians - France 24 

City officials develop plan to harness energy from cemeteries — here's how 

Advocates begin process to include South View Cemetery on Historic Places list - Axios 

 Satellite imagery reveals extent of destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Gaza - ABC 

Russia Rushes To Expand Cemeteries Amid Rising War Casualties - Newsweek 

Oxenden Cemetery gets a Columbarium - Mitchell Advocate 

Preserving History: ERDC research aims to revive Nation's oldest West Coast Naval cemetery 

Can You Be Buried In A Jewish Cemetery With Tattoos? - Jew in the City 

'Govt. finding it tough to get land for cemeteries, playgrounds, hospitals' - The Hindu

Lost history lies in neglected Manteo cemetery - The Outer Banks Voice 

Always Interesting

SAO - OFTEN BUTTERED, NEVER BETTERED - Pauline Conolly

DOROTHY THORNE; A MOSMAN MYSTERY Pauline Conolly

A MOSMAN MYSTERY PART II – ALFRED LOCKYER Pauline Conolly

St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church: A Journey Through Time and Family History  Jenny MacKay

Geraldton’s Gothic Gem: St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Our Family Legacy Jenny MacKay

The National Archives UK incl.

Conquest and rebellion, betrayal and murder 

Better Reading

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat  READ AN EXTRACT

Preview: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

Preview: I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

Podcast: Jake Adelstein on Working in Japan and His Career Trajectory as a Journalist

From my blog..

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th July 2024, great blogs, century old gramophone returns 'home', family history month, snowflake man, crime of the century..a century late, Benjamin the library cat, Carousal of love, French historian who invented the Olympics, relics of the USS Arizona..and lots more.. Feel free to share.


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Friday Fossicking!



São Miguel



Great Blogs





Pauline Conolly   WEEDA COPPER

 

Better Reading