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I have moved servers for my Blog. This is to improve the service however there are still a few glitches in the system we are ironing out.

Thank you for bearing with me.

I decided after looking around at some new WordPress Themes is was time to give APeel Solutions Internet Blog a makeover for Christmas. I think the new theme is more readable and has nice contrast and I hope  you like the update.

Andrew Peel

The folks in the video aren’t watching a fireworks show but rather the near-constant lightning strikes that occur over Vaenezuela’s Catatumbo River almost half of the year. Apparently, sailors have dubbed the lightning “Maracaibo Beacon” because it can be used as a navigational aid. According to the excellent Atlas Obscura, there might be as many as 280 strikes per hour during 10 hour stretches.

(The phenomenon) was first written about in the 1597 poem “The Dragontea” by Lope de Vega. De Vega tells of Sir Francis Drake’s 1595 attempt to take the city of Maracaibo by night, only to have his plans foiled when the lightning storm’s flashes gave away his position to the city’s defenders.

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This is just such an up lifting song and video no other reason for posting it – enjoy!

I came across this story from the Dear Myrtyle Genealogy Blog a firm favourite of mine as Genealogy is one of my passions.

“FROM: Brian Wolf Leverich

I’ve just installed 1,025 new UK and Ireland genealogy links for Valorie Zimmerman and 32,088 new US and surname genealogy links for Karen Isaacson Leverich at www.linkpendium.com
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LP also hosts directories to Cars (Megan Zurawicz) and Hiking.

Thanks to all the folks who are suggesting links — it helps! Anyone can recommend links to be added to any page.

Clearly, at some point we need to get a newsletter going. Megan, Valorie, and Karen keep finding great resources, and they all appear on our pages, but the only way folks find out about these gems is when they do a search at Linkpendium. We need to be getting the word out!”

So this is my bit in getting the word out – there are over 8 million genealogy links split by location and surnames – this is an awesome resource and one I knew nothing about and I have been researching genealogy for some time. So even if you are not a genealogist or family historian maybe this will help you start. Enjoy!

I came across the following interesing post at Cronaca a very good history Blog I visit regularly

Breaking Enigma: remembering the Poles

For decades after the war the contributions of Rejewski and other Polish cipher experts to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany went unrecognised.

But Bletchley Park, the nerve centre of Britain’s wartime code breaking operations, has just held its annual Polish Day – a celebration of the Polish achievements that laid the foundations for British success in cracking German codes. . .

Polish historian Eugenia Maresch says that Alastair Denniston, the first director of Bletchley Park, was inspired by his meeting with the cryptologists at Pyry, the small Polish decoding centre in woods outside Warsaw. There the Poles divulged their methods and Enigma secrets to British and French intelligence.

The Poles were already deciphering Enigma messages in 1933, Mrs Maresch explained, whereas the British did not seriously turn their attention to Enigma until the Spanish Civil War in 1936, when the Axis powers’ aggression started threatening British interests in the Mediterranean.

Original source the BBC