Blogs tagged "history"

After the death of King Canute IV of Denmark, he was succeeded by his brother Olaf (c.1050 - 1095). His reign suffere...

King Sweyn II of Denmark (c.1019 - 1076) had two wives and numerous mistresses, resulting in about 20 children. His f...

The conflict between Sweyn II of Denmark and Harald Hardrada was called off in 1064, with Sweyn agreeing to recognize...

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. O...

Divers from Swiss cantonal archaeology have located, beneath the waters of the Aare River near the city of Solothurn,...

An article by Ian S. Wilson, from Harvard University, and Matthew McCarty, from the University of British Columbia, q...

I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to ch...

Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a...

Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook...

Legal infographics that reflect a Turkish nation in flux.

In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the ...

Photographs of flowers by an advocate of California’s beauty.

TimesSquare is a programming puzzle created by Dennis Shasha and published in the April 2026 issue of Communications ...

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a co...

While the study of textbooks has proven fruitful in the study of the history of mathematics, there has been little at...

Scientific institutions are struggling to survive under a mountain of publications and poor standards of peer review....

Since World War I, our society has been convinced that civilization is on the brink of technological apocalypse. The ...

The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

Hey folks! I had a few other projects that I really needed to get finished this week, which left me with limited time...

This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and ...

Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odd...