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Friday, June 21, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st Jun 2024


GENERAL

* Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans(98):Addendum to the last post | trevo's Irish famine orphans


The Prospector who dug his own Grave - Outback Family History


*  THE CHOCOLATE QUEEN OF SYDNEY - Pauline Conolly



ATLAS OBSCURA

A World Tour of Abandoned Amusement Parks    Inside the World of ‘Art Dropping’   What Did The First Person to See X-Rays Think?  How to Be a Water Judge    Floating Along with Florida’s Gentle Giants    A Taiwanese Island’s Prehistoric Ruins    This House Is a Tribute to Frank Sinatra’s Music   These Basketball Courts Come With a Scenic View   The Abandoned Bus of Scarista Beach  The Gardens Turning Fog Into Food   Ghost Town Graveyards   Dugout Canoes at Lake Phelps of Pettigrew State Park   Pecan Pie Vending Machine   Do You Remember The Lore of Candle Cove? Macaque Behavior   Villa de Vecchi Italy  Don’t Disturb This Sleeping Person—Uh, Sculpture   All The Stories Hidden In This Mexican Cemetery  The Samurai Standing In An Italian City  Is This a Sci-Fi Set Or Residential Building?    Black Wall Street Durham    Why We Tell Bees About Death  5 Weird Flag Stories   Cozy Dog Drive In  The Story of Laffing Sal   Pirate Paradise: 8 Essential Stops for Buccaneers in Florida   Tomb of Christopher Columbus   8 Ferris Wheels With Stellar Views The Atlas Obscura Guide to West Virginia  Walt Disney’s Lamp   The Gastro Obscura Guide to Asheville Area Eats  Juneteeth, Its Significance, and Everything That Came After   A Civil Rights Icon’s Vegetarian Cookbook   This Underground Kitchen Funded the Civil Rights Movement   Fighting Incarceration With Food Missouri’s One-of-a-Kind Restaurants   Site of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in    The Humble Hole-in-the-Wall Boasting Civil Rights History  This Mural Pays Homage to Famous Black Americans   Dive Into the Rich Diversity of African American Cuisine   The Domain of the "Queen of Creole Cuisine”  Tower of Baa-Goat  Lake Nona Sculpture Garden The Affair of the Poisons  Kamiiso no Torii Japan Panoramic Discoveries: Mono Lake  Unmasking a 19th Century Occult Imposter O'Reilly Spite House  The Xbox Inventor Also Baked 4,500-Year-Old Bread  Sumida Hokusai Museum Tokyo The Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights


JSTOR Daily

Colorful Lights to Cure What Ails You  Sheet Music: the Original Problematic Pop?    Pas de Deux With Cancel Culture  The Race to Be the Tallest Building in the World    On the Anniversary of Iceland’s Independence  Luanda, Angola: The Paradox of Plenty   Reading for Juneteenth  Saturn’s Ocean Moon Enceladus Is Able to Support Life    The Race to Be the Tallest Building in the World  Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?  Archival Adventures in the Abernethy Collection  Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated  The Vital Near-Magic of Fire-Eating Fungi  Nellie Bly Experiences It All   Time in a Box    Capturing the Civil War    A True Crime Syllabus   Israel and Gaza: A Syllabus of Background ReadingsCelebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures   Watching an Eclipse from Prison   Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated    The Mathematical Pranksters behind Nicolas Bourbaki   The Physics of Karate  The Vital Near-Magic of Fire-Eating Fungi 


Better Reading

BREAKING NEWS!   Introducing Authors on Authors, Michael Connelly and Candice Fox .. WATCH EPISODE ONE


Book of the Week: The Skeleton House by Katherine Allum    READ AN EXTRACT


The Death Watcher by Chris Carter   READ MORE


Podcast: Lisa Medved on Art, Travel and Writing Historical Fiction      LISTEN HERE


The Weekly Top 10 Bestsellers   FIND OUT HERE



From my blog..


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jun 2024


Did Victorians Cover Table legs for Modesty Reasons, How a frozen woman lived, cemetery & burial records, importance of June 14th, world’s largest things only in Missouri, Skylight Inn bbq, remains of Old London Bridge, book reviews ..plus so much more..

Feel free to share...


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/06/friday-fossicking-14th-jun-2024.html


Smile time


Friday, June 14, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jun 2024

 


GENERAL

GSQ BLOG  Sandemanians: Searching for traces of my Nonconformist ancestors in London.  Karyn Walker

My Ancestors - Cemetery and burial records


IMPORTANCE of June 14th...

Flag Day    Germany invades Paris    National Bourbon Day     International Bath Day  National Strawberry Shortcake Day  

Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory   Pop Goes the Weasel Day

National New Mexico Day      Greece Twa Flight 847 Hijack 

Australia

1825- Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales ...

also


ATLAS OBSCURA

One of History's Most Lavish Tombs Belongs to a Woman   The Ancient Secrets Hidden in 41,000 Bison Bones  A Saint's Sword in the Stone    The ‘World's Largest’ Things That You Can Only Find in Missouri   From Seed to Significance    Monument to Mountain Dew  Panoramic Discoveries: Griffith Observatory  USA   Global Grave Goods in Bali   Behold, the Indian Vetala   7 Ghost Stories That Will Haunt You   Gastro Obscura’s Guide to Eating Your Way Through Charlotte   Yoda Guy Movie A Top-Secret Royal Meeting Chamber    Fancy Visiting This Original Dalí Sculpture?   This Gingerbread House Is Straight Out of a Fairy Tale   This Is the Only Paris Métro Sign Outside Paris CANADA Oklahoma National Stockyards   Dijon’s Last Mustard Maker Dine Among the Dead Spaceburgers

Antarctica’s Coolest Bar  How a Frozen Woman Lived Colorado Has 697 Sides   Kenova's Pumpkin House Anxious Skiers Can Find Hidden Martinis Along These Ski Slopes  Skylight Inn BBQ    A Bridge That Once Was The Only Crossing at the Colorado River

Spot the Mysterious Shape In This Painting  This Tiny Island’s Gone to the Birds (Pelicans)  Panoramic Discoveries: The Armstrong Redwoods  Did Victorians Cover Table Legs For Modesty Reasons?  Monkey Slugs and Mailboxes  Museum of Pharmacy    Where The Wild Things Are: 8 Animal Experiences in Florida Stop and Smell the Flowers   Geoffrey Chaucer Statue  The Fruit Reforestation of Puerto Rico Remains of the Old London Bridge  Marshall High Studios

Solved: The Mystery of a Medieval Ink  What Was The First Cocktail?  Curry Powder’s Surprising History From a Kraken to Stolen Docs  Everyone’s A Happy Camper Here   The Grave of Sandra West (different) An Homage to a Beloved Character World’s First Darth Vader Monument Ukraine Big Delight Awaits You in Vermont’s Tiny Bread Box  How a Real Estate Agent Saved Myrtle Beach’s Pinball 



Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Skeleton House by Katherine Allum   READ AN EXTRACT

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter   READ MORE

The Love Interest by Helen Comerford     READ AN EXTRACT

Podcast: Lisa Medved on Art, Travel and Writing Historical Fiction

LISTEN HERE



and from my blog...


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Jun 2024, GSQ Blog.. Pauleen Cass, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives news, Judy Webster’s Family Tree, cemetery & burial records, My Greek Odyssey, Visit Canberra, Bonny & Clyde audio, dark side to solar storms, tombstone for mysterious woman, old Filipino cemetery, murderous monk, and much more…

Feel free to share..


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/06/friday-fossicking-7th-jun-2024.html








Friday, June 7, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Jun 2024


 GENERAL

GSQ Blog “Grab & Go” or “Go Slow”  Pauleen Cass

 Australian War Memorial EMEMORIAL newsletter June 2024

National Archives | June 2024 see list of various events over a number of areas and states.    Green Shadows - the Papuan Infantry Battalion

29 Aug 1891 - IN GOD'S ACRE. - Trove

27 Jan 1911 - Bishop Carroll's Visit to the Bellinger. - Trove


Interesting


Judy Webster's Family Tree maybe you are connected ..


My Ancestors - Cemetery and burial records


Adavale’s Blackwater Hotel, aka ‘The Dog & Vomit’ – TIME GENTS


My Greek Odyssey where to watch


Visit Canberra

What's on this winter  The best adventures for the school holidays Tasty truffles you need to try  Canberra's best-kept secret nature spots

Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao National Art Gallery

The Forage    and more''


Genealogy Leftovers: Genealogy Do-Over or Source-Based Incremental Fix?


ATLAS OBSCURA

The Twisty, Backstabbing History of Coney Island’s Dueling Theme Parks    The Mysterious Case of Domesticated Cats Prison de Kara Morocco  Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum audio Tiny, Parachuting Baby Spiders Are All Around Us   Paris’s Catacomb Mushrooms Eldheimar Museum Iceland Mosquito Summer Camp  What Do Schools Around the World Eat?  The Dark Side to Solar Storms  What We’re Reading Right Now The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art  Desierto de los Leones (Desert of the Lions)  Discover Local History Through Miniatures  A Tombstone For a Mysterious Woman  This Would Have Been Scotland’s Biggest Piece of Landscape Art  Frozen Dead Guy podcast  The ‘Kranks,’ ‘Fiends,’ and ‘Rooters’ Who Came Before Fans The Ancient Armored Arachnid Earth’s Shifting Plates Are a Good Thing The Ludlow Massacre Site   The Shrine Maiden Who Gave Us Kabuki Out in the Wilderness, These Train Tracks Lead to Nowhere  Tribute to a Bear Victim of a Drug Trafficker’s Bizarre Death A ‘Palatial’ Housing Complex Doubles as a Sci-Fi Dystopian Set This Choctaw/Thai Spot Celebrates Global Indigenous Cuisine These Crabs Are Big, Criminal, and May Have Eaten Amelia Earhart Are Big Cats Prowling City Suburbs?  A Massive Cheese Empire in a Rural Town Step Inside the Atalaya Castle Exploring the Mystery of the ‘Well of Hell’   Preserving the History of Louisiana’s Centuries-Old Filipino Community  The Murderous Monk and a Worried Mother

From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shocking’: Ranking Bug Stings   A Touching Tribute for a ‘Wonky Donkey’  The Last Remnant of a City's Silent Film Glory    Grab a Key to Unlock the Doors to This Medieval Sewer    

A Salt Mine’s Picnic Spots Ideal for Families and Asthmatics


Better Reading

Book of the Week: Down the Track by Stella Quinn    READ MORE


Read an Extract: The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson


Podcast: Catherine Doyle on Merging Fantasy with Real-World Themes    LISTEN HERE


and from my posts...


That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 31st May 2024 incl.  worker's dwelling Act 1909, 160 yr old artefacts, time in a box, artful rare books, island made of shells, taking China by storm, secret language of prairie dogs, top secret nuclear bunker..and so much more…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/05/friday-fossicking-31st-may-2024.html



Busy Genealogist






Friday, May 31, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 31st May 2024



Archibald 2024 Packing Room Prize awarded to Matt Adnate for portrait of Baker Boy, as this year's finalists revealed...


160-year-old artefacts: owner foundHistory Out There ...Lamb House (Brisbane)

JStor Daily 

Atlas Obscura   
Siberia’s Doorway to the Underworld Is Growing  There Are More Parking Lots Than Houses in These U.S. Cities   A Collection of Artful Rare Books  The Life and End of the World’s Biggest Treehouse   Myths of Victorian Postmortem Photos    Discover Orlando's Outdoor Hidden Gems  A Fantastical Bed & Breakfast     Broken Mirrors Weren’t Bad Luck to the Mayans but Otherworldly Portals    Decoding the Secret Language of Prairie Dogs    Meet the People Keeping Vintage Rail Cars Running   Can Music Improve Food’s Taste?   Indigenous Dishes of North America   Dine Like a Basque in Nevada   The Innis House of Sunken Road    This Odd Face Tied to Rudyard Kipling Might Bring You a Bit of Luck  Ottoman-Era Water Fountains Still Dot This Seaside Town A Cathedral Carved in Marble by Mother Nature  Where Royalty Waits When the Trains Run Late   The Daring Desert Pilots Who Inspired a Beloved Children’s Tale   Medieval Chefs Would Have Loved Dessert Hummus    Why Do Dwarves Always Sound Scottish?   What Did Roman Emperors Eat?Remembering Those Lost at Pearl Harbor   An Overlooked Memorial for Locals Who Died During World War I   The ‘Spirited’ Patrons of This Restaurant Might Be Due to Its History of Seances A Cemetery Holds the History of a Gold Rush-Turned Ghost Town A Sculptor’s Modern Take on a Poignant Fairy Tale  Meet Winnipeg’s Beloved Black Bear  10 of the Weirdest Museum Stories You’ll Ever Read  Mapping ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books   Romania’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Is an Eerily Beautiful Forest  The Mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights How and Why Did Finland Get Its Trees to Float?  A Crypt Holding Thousands of Remains and a Few Intestines The Feral Horses of Sable Island 12 Ancient Scientific Instruments You Can Still Visit   The Fluffy Bagels Taking China By Storm   How Did the World Look During Christ’s Time?    Rock Springs  A Mysterious Mausoleum in Lincoln Park An Eclectic Trailer Park Retreat in the Middle of the Desert  The Location of Two Sticks Allegedly Owned By Witches  An Island Made Out of Hundreds of Shells   A Top-Secret Nuclear Bunker Hidden in a Mountain   Montreal’s Giant Orange 


Another very quiet week...... 

Currently Reading
 "The Girl With the Violin" Shelly Davidow ...

from my blogs....

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th May 2024, interesting blogs, poetry postbox, medieval space bonnet, guide to household spirits, giant stairway, haunted soldiers in Mesopotamia... and much more..

Feel free to share…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/05/friday-fossicking-24th-may-2024.html


Never alone with a stack of books to read..





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.