Posts tagged "history"

Aug 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 2

After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered the most corrupt, the Lords Appellant decided to sweep through the rest of the ad...

Aug 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Detect Stones That May Have Human Shapes Beneath the Enormous Neolithic Mounds of Coëby in Brittany

In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of Coëby, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by th...

Aug 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting ...

Aug 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 1

A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the excesses in the administration of the king, Richard II. Richard tried to overthrow ...

Aug 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Shipwreck from the 5th-4th Centuries BC with a Cargo of Amphorae Containing Wine from the Northern Islands and the Bosporus Found off the Coast of Andros Island

The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, under the Greek Ministry of Culture, has completed an official inspection at a point along the shoreline of the island of Andros following a report from a pr...

Aug 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A section of the Roman road connecting the fortifications of the Germanic Limes discovered beneath the route of the A8 highway in Germany

The construction of the new variant of the A8 highway in the area known as the Albaufstieg, south of Stuttgart (Germany), has uncovered a first-rate archaeological find: a segment of the ancient Ro...

Jul 31, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)

Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close upon me. I did get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I wrote ...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times

I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the...

Jul 31, 2026 from Palladium

Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation

The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it. The post Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation appeared first on Palladium.

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism

A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

One of the Oldest Giants’ Tombs Discovered in the Archaeological Site of Carrarzu Iddia, in Sardinia

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that un...

Jul 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Thomas Usk, Civil Servant & Poet

We know little of Thomas Usk's early life except that he was born in London. The name Usk appears in several records, but we cannot link them together. He became a civil servant and left us some wr...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Iron Age Village with a Mysterious Ditch Discovered in Bochum Puzzles Archaeologists

A team of archaeologists from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), in collaboration with a specialized company, has confirmed the existence of what is considered the first evidence of preh...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

626 Stonemason Marks Deciphered on the Towers of a Gate in the Walls of the Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya

The stone walls of the Gate of Tauchira, in the ancient city of Ptolemais (modern Libya), have preserved for more than two thousand years a silent record of the activity of its builders. These are ...

Jul 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of the 1945 atomic explosion with an unknown metallic alloy discovered in the sand of Hiroshima Bay

Research on nuclear explosion residues continues to bring surprises to the scientific community. A research group led by Luca Bindi, from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Flore...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Responding to Nagoya Basho Grades

I read and enjoyed Josh K’s Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026, referring to the Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament. He gave out four A’s to M7E Kotoeiho, S2W Aoniishki (A+ to the winner...

Jul 30, 2026 from Palladium

Frontier Panic

As artificial intelligence has advanced, it has taken the place of climate change as the main perceived threat to our planet. The post Frontier Panic appeared first on Palladium.

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bath complex with circular pools from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods discovered in the eastern Nile Delta

The archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered, during its first excavation campaign at the Tell Nasser archaeological area, a comprehensive complex of bathing fa...

Jul 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Northanmpton

After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 383 by Nicholas Brembre, Brembre worked to overturn all of Northampton's efforts to help the common people. When ...

Jul 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tombstones, Sarcophagi, and Amulets Found in the Tell el-Deir Necropolis Mixing Representations of Greek and Egyptian Gods

The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt has announced the discovery of around twenty funerary tombstones, several sarcophagi, and a collection of amulets in Tell el-Deir, the necropolis located...