Posts tagged "history"

Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”

I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published...

Aug 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Lombards

The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of t...

Aug 22, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Codex Gigas, the largest medieval illuminated manuscript, was created by a single monk who took 30 years to complete it

In 1648, as Swedish troops looted Prague Castle at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, someone carried off among the spoils a volume that weighed 75 kilos and required two people to move. It was a bo...

Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Against “Like Them, but Better”

I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, he makes the case against “[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the comp...

Aug 21, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies

This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, with fi...

Aug 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26

It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so “new”) Wacom One dr...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Sanctuary and Prehistoric Astronomical Observatory in Central Europe Found in the Czech Republic, a Thousand Years Older than Stonehenge

A team of archaeologists, led by the University of West Bohemia (UWB), has brought to light, near the town of Chleby, in present-day Czech Republic, a monumental structure dating back more than 6,5...

Aug 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Origin of the Langobard People

The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the ...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Parthenon frieze was designed to be viewed as a cinematic sequence that only comes to life as you walk by, not as a static work of art

A study published in the journal Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies proposes a radically new reading of the Parthenon frieze, the famous 160-meter-long sculpture that surrounded the tem...

Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists discover that the enigmatic Natufians, considered the first sedentary people of the Levant, habitually ate lizards and snakes

Around fifteen thousand years ago, the hunter-gatherer communities that populated the southern Levant experienced a radical transformation in their social and spatial organization. Those groups tha...

Aug 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26

I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 ...

Aug 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

History of the Lombards

Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to assemble his Historia Langobardorum. Written between 787 and 796CE, he recounts t...

Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Create a ‘Mini Big Bang’ and Manage to Reproduce in the Laboratory the State of Matter That Filled the Cosmos During the First Moments of the Universe

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, have managed to reproduce in the laboratory the state of matter that filled the cosmos during its first millionth of a seco...

Aug 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Demonstrate That Brands Already Existed 3,200 Years Ago in Bronze Age Oases

The question of whether brands are an invention exclusive to modern capitalist societies has received a resounding answer from an international team of researchers: they already existed at least 3,...

Aug 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-19-26

Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate on Ads (Paul Bois for...

Aug 19, 2026 from Palladium

American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source

Chinese companies’ AI strategy can economically cripple American labs unless the U.S. government competently counters. The post American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source appeared first on Pal...

Aug 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Paul the Deacon's Writings

Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writing attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Great, that was written much earlier than Paul). He was in th...

Aug 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Sanctuary Built Over a Bronze Age Burial Mound Discovered in Suffolk That Later Became a Place of Execution in the Middle Ages

A team of archaeologists from Archaeology South-East, part of University College London, has unearthed at Red Lodge, Suffolk, a fascinating site spanning from the Neolithic to the medieval period, ...

Aug 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Was Malaci a Nymph? The Enigma of the Lady of Cova Dones

A woman ventures into the mountain with a light and a spindle in her hands, walking through the passageways of Cova Dones, in present-day Millares (Valencia). She leaves the entrance behind until r...

Aug 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-18-26

Another weekday means another set of Poook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling siblings over sale of remaining Lakers shares to new ownership group: reports (Scott Thompson for Fox Business. Au...