Friday, March 22, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Mar 2024


GENERAL

GSQ Blog     ‘Relics of Early Explorers’  Sue Bell

John Grenham The reayin in Speayin

National Archives UK 

The Gestapo's most wanted woman in France

A letter from the most powerful woman in Tudor England, Margaret Beaufort

Women's suffrage: Explore the collection

Louise Bennett-Coverley - the ‘queen of Jamaican theatre’

Find her story - from our partners, Findmypast

Spirit of Invention at Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Discovery Museum


*** For New Zealand Readers... courtesy of author Vicky Adin...

Saturday 27 April ... AGES OF PAGES    The Heaphy Room 

Claudelands Events Centre in Hamilton
I (Vicky Adin) attended a couple of years ago and it was one of the best events I've been part of.
Free Entry.
Over 80 authors in loads of genres and styles.


Outback Family History

The Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson  John Reside – grave tales    Mt Palmer – a grave competition      Dinny’s O’Callaghan’s Brainwaves –

Smithsonian Magazine

Via Ferratas Are Finally Catching On in the United States  

You Can Spend the Night in the Secret Library Tucked Inside St. Paul's Cathedral

This Cézanne Mural Was Hidden in the Walls of the Artist's Family Home 

Nestled Amidst the Blue Ridge Mountains, McDowell County, NC Is the Gateway to Your Next Adventure

Shimmy Through the World's Most Spectacular Slot Canyons 

The World's First Cryonics Museum Finds a Perfect Home in Estes Park, Colorado 

These French Cheeses Are at Risk of Extinction 

These Festive Photos Capture How the World Celebrates Carnival, From Rome to Rio de Janeiro 

You Could Run a 'Penguin Post Office' in Antarctica 

This Banksy Mural Was Salvaged From the Wall of a London Office Building

These Were the Most—and Least—Popular National Parks in 2023

This 1,200-Year-Old Tomb in Panama Contains a Treasure Trove of Artifacts and Up to 32 Bodies 

How Medieval Women Expressed Their 'Forbidden' Emotions 

Ten Shipwrecks Found Off the Coast of Greek Island 

Unlock Ancient Secrets and Learn About the Latest Discoveries With Influential Figures in Egyptology 

See the Portrait That Made Henry VIII Fall in Love With Anne of Cleves, Newly Restored to Its Former Glory 

Archaeologists Unearth the Long-Lost Top Half of an Enormous Ramses II Statue 

The True Story of the Monuments Men     What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women's Diaries?

What Really Happened During the Murder of Rasputin, Russia's 'Mad Monk'? 

St. Patrick Opened a Portal to Purgatory on This Little-Known Irish Island

Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II    The Real History Behind FX's 'Shogun'

 The True Story of Pocahontas Is More Complicated Than You Might Think

JSTOR Daily

Up the Junction: A Place, A Fiction, A Film, A Condition    Read More

The Most Dangerous Woman in the World       Marbled Money

Dragon Swallows the Sun: Predicting Eclipses in China

Eileen Gray: Architect In Her Own Right     

How Astronomers Write History

Mbarak Mombée: An African Explorer Robbed of His Name

Atlas Obscura

Celebrate the Mathiest of Holidays With Numerical Tales   Eclipse Fever: A Historic Brush with Mortality An Eccentric Architect’s Iconic ‘Dragon Back’  Touring Italy’s Museum of Abandonment

Aliens and Meteorites: Inside Mexico’s Bermuda Triangle  The Tragic Legend Behind a Renown Cathedral     20 Pies to Celebrate Pi Day    On a Potato Museum’s Menu: Pie With Local Irish Moss    Known for Its Pie, This Cafe Hid a Secret Path for Reformers    This Quiet Chamber’s Total Silence Can Drive You Mad  Study Hall With a View Former Power Plant, Now a Mini-Museum of Geological Wonder  The Curious Case of Oxford’s Time-Traveling Professors   5 Monsters Messing With the Sun and Moon  24 Extremely Local Cryptids

Here Lies the World's First Nuclear Reactor  Your Choice of Cheese and Charcuterie à la Conveyor     Small Shop Houses the World’s Largest Typewriter Company  The Tiniest Taco Bell, Open 24/7 Year-Round   14th-Century Medieval Ferry Service Sails On A Short Trip Down Opens Up to a View of Life Underwater   Join Us on the Path of Totality One Man's Love (and Letters) for a Place He'd Never Been  The Places That Remind Us of Home  A Megalith Monument Older than Stonehenge in Line with the Stars  Does This Scottish Bar Hold the Monarchy's Stone of Destiny?  Travel to a Museum for the Buffalo Soldiers  With a Name Like 'Angst,' Any Wonder It’s Abandoned The Final Resting Place of Today’s Honoree, St. Patrick  A Deadly Burial Site for the World’s First Nuclear Reactor  Hidden Below Detroit’s Streets, a Mine Few May Enter It’s (Not) Good to Be the King 

The Underwater Volcanoes Brimming With Life  The Long History of Artificial Cranial Mods   The Beans That Foretold Death  All That Remains of a Once Premier, and Deadly, Speedway   The Serene Hot Springs That Hide a Checkered Past  So Many ‘Happy Little Accidents’ for Sale  Haunting, Not Haunted, Chapel Ruins  Sobering Ruins of a Fatal Dam Failure   A Grave with a Grudge for All to Remember  Houdini’s Ghost-Busting ‘Girl Detective’   This Ice May Hold Clues About Past World-Altering Events  The House of Nicolas Flamel Paris  The Squirrels That Ate the Sun and Other Eclipse Tales Nature's Frank Lloyd Wrights A Roadside Store's Far-Out Displays

Dinosaur World  Podcast: Whimzeyland Listen Now  Plan Your Artsy Getaway to St. Pete/Clearwater   Fairgrounds St. Pete   Why the Eclipse Equals Doom in So Many Stories    Our Latest Obsessions

A Forest Trail's Many Hidden Faces  This Road Was Never Meant to Be So Creepy Northern Ireland  A Tiny House, the Width of a Single Car  A 1500s Map Nicknamed America's Birth Certificate

Unusual Chasms Line a Walking Trail to an Abandoned Cafe    A Highway Haunted by Those Whose Graves Were Paved Over   A Forest Trail's Many Hidden Faces

Genealogy Ireland

Next Genealogy over Lunch will explore tracing Irish ancestry | Nebraska Today

Minnesota counties with highest share of Irish ancestry - Axios Twin Cities

No better time to explore genealogy - Times Leader 

Jason Momoa discovers Irish ancestry in St. Patrick's Day Guinness ad - The Des Moines Register 

Students are in luck to learn about Irish culture with local historical hub - The State Press 

Where Washington's Irish live - Axios Seattle 

Over Easy: Irishness in America - Valley News

Ireland's top leader calls for Ukraine aid, Gaza ceasefire in Dorchester address - WBUR 

Group Markets Massachusetts's 'Vibrant' Irish-American Community - FUN 107 

2:00 pm: "The Killian Homeplace." Presented by Joan Killian Gallagher | Darien, CT Patch

America's Irish heritage: These states have the largest populations from the Emerald Isle 

President Biden recounts receiving family history from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter ... 

 Deep roots: Local residents trace Irish ancestry - Observer-Reporter

The history of Irish emigration, and the pride of the Emerald Isle - CBS News 

'No Irish ancestry required' - Playing GAA in the US - Newstalk 

The US state with the most Irish heritage according to a new study 

How Irish emigration is celebrated in the home country - YouTube 

A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked ... - CNN 

'Slainte!' These Pa. counties have the most Irish populations | wnep.com 

Why these major Utah businesses chose to expand to Ireland 

Maps: How Irish is your state? Texas in the top five | KTALnews.com 

Always Interesting

Humouring the Goddess  Hilma af Klint   Feel Like a Scaredy Cat You Can Carry a Bread Machine on the Plane  Mad Cat Teapots

Faerie Paths — Magical Things   Stephanie Kilgast

Deep in the Heart of Textiles Thread Stories

Geniaus 24 years ago

allenrizzi     Garlic From China?  Bear Stories

Tracking Down The Family  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Achievement

Anne's Family History ‘Choof’ go the shearing machines, ‘choof, choof, choof’.

Pauline Conolly VITA-WEAT – WITHOUT ‘WORMS’

Gerry's Family History  Henry Welby, from Canterbury to Connecticut

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey  Erwin Rothschild As Remembered By His Wife Irma

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in Irish History | 18 March:

Reviews

Theresa Smith Writes

Recommended Reads incl.

'Pineapple Street' by Jenny Jackson

'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store' by James McBride

Elizabeth Gauffreau #BookReview: Giants by James White

Allen & Unwin

March Book of the Month  'Whenever You're Ready' Trish Bolton

Penguin Books Australia

The Cryptic Clue Amanda Hampson Out 3rd April 2024 

Start Reading

ABIA shortlist announced! SEE THE LIST

Lead Us Not   Abbey Lay   START READING

The Actor  Chris MacDonald 




Jade and Emerald   Michelle See-Tho Out 16 July 2024

Better Reading

The School Run by Ali Lowe  READ MORE

Body of Lies by Sarah Bailey  READ AN EXTRACT

Small Hours by Bobby Palmer READ AN EXTRACT

and from my blog...

THAT MOMENT IN TIME

FRIDAY  FOSSICKING 15th Mar 2024, man killing clam, Ireland's hidden stories, hunt for uranium glass, Irish Heritage month.. Record Keeping Princess, great blogs, Egypt’s Jar Burials, great blogs, book reviews, Irish genealogy articles and so much more..

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Friday, March 15, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Mar 2024




GENERAL

GSQ Blog

QLD State Archives newsletter incl.  Stranded on the range: rescuing

National Library of Australia Newsletter March 2024 incl. 

Great female writers of the 18th century  Palapala: A story of reading, writing and books... book now

National Archives UK newsletter incl.  Finding a 200-year-old sweater in our collection The mastermind behind the 'Great Escape'


Outback Family History

JSTOR Daily

Atlas Obscura


Genealogy Ireland

Always Interesting
Tracking Down the Family

Humouring the Goddess
Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage
Anne Young 
allenrizzi
The Legal Genealogist

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Pauline Conolly

Reviews

Theresa Smith Writes


Better Reading
Healed Femur read by Gillian Anderson LISTEN TO A SAMPLE

Penguin Books Australia
Burma Sahib  Paul Theroux  CHECK IT OUT

and from my blog...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING  8th March 2024,  great blogs, Little Boy Lost, intellectual humility, Japanese ghost town, New “World’s Largest Snake’, 1500 year old error, Land of the Free, Home of the Bootleggers, abandoned churches, old age pension records for genealogy, monastery’s secrets, women who shaped Rome, book reviews and a whole lot more… Feel free to share..


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