Blogs tagged "history"

A team of researchers has made a discovery that could reopen the debate about the existence of artificial objects orb...

An underwater archaeology campaign carried out between September 29 and October 1, 2025 in the waters near the site o...

Research published in American Antiquity, the flagship journal of North American archaeology, presents evidence that ...

Aimery (born c.1153) was one of the sons of the Lord of Poitou, Hugh VIII of Lusignan, and Burgundia of Rancon. His b...

While Henry II of Champagne was functioning as King of Jerusalem (even if he did not use the title itself, preferring...

After the brutal murder of Conrad of Montferrat right after he was informed that he had been chosen to replace Guy of...

Yesterday I shared Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub in my Pook-Emu Bee links for the day. The post introd...

Cabbage reviwed the anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin on her always-fun Cabbage Sorter blog. Takopi was a sho...

Another non-Saturday day ending in -day means it is time for a new set of Pook-Emu Bee. However, this will be our las...

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger ...

Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.

One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption o...

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...

Think tanks and nonprofit advocacy have replaced citizen-driven political parties. Voters have lost their voice as a ...

Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiativ...

As politics weakens and private power grows, building a great future will depend on permanent games that convert priv...

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 week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which i...

Hey folks! Another gap week because, as mentioned last week, I am at the annual meeting for the Society for Military ...

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implication...