Blogs tagged "history"

The 2025 campaign, carried out over six weeks with the participation of thirty-five volunteers and five professionals...

For more than a century, Raknehaugen, the colossal earthen mound that rises about 40 kilometers north of Oslo, has be...

The length of a day is not immutable. Factors ranging from the gravitational pull of the Moon to complex movements wi...

After the death of William of Montferrat, Sibylla of Jerusalem needed a new husband. The kingdom of Jerusalem was in ...

King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay, had three children. When Amalric was forced to p...

In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam w...

At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it...

Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by ...

I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not coll...

"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.

A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic...

In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westwa...

In Fifth Edition (5e) Dungeons & Dragons™ (D&D), druids can transform into certain Beast forms using the Wild Shape a...

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon U...

An alliance of German artists and industrialists forged the visual order of contemporary life, from skyscrapers to sm...

When the dominant culture abandons cultivating taste and aesthetics through creative excess, they leave open opportun...

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...

ALEXANDER KARP AND NICHOLAS ZAMISKA'S The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West...

This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune....

Hey everyone, we have a Fireside this week and then next week we’ll get back to our somewhat silly break discussing t...

This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herber...