Blogs tagged "history"

After returning to England from failed Crusade attempts, Edmund had to deal with some unrest. His father, Henry III, ...

When Henry III's son Edmund Crouchback was 23 years old, he pledged to go on crusade with his brother, Edward, and a ...

Henry III wanted another son. His first son, Edward, was followed by a daughter, Margaret, and Henry needed at least ...

More than six decades after the excavation work carried out in the so-called Orto dei Fuggiaschi (Garden of the Fugit...

The work of the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the necropolis of Dra Abu...

«Appius, who had an impulsive character… » says Livy in the second book of his work Ab urbe condita (On the Founding ...

After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of c...

I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a l...

I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group ...

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Al...

A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.

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...

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.

As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. The post The Dostoevski...

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...

This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised...

This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and cons...

This is the second part (I) of our series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. As we discussed last tim...