Posts tagged "history"

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026)

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’s snowing. I turned my head to the right to look out my window. Indeed, it was ...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Against Linking to Instagram

Jatan at Journal J wrote a good blog post back in 2021 against using “bad links” in blog posts. What does he mean by “bad link”? He explains: While Instagram is one of the worst offenders of the op...

Mar 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-12-26

I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday due to an assignment. But that does not mean I was not collecting links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A massive stellar migration: scientists discover that the Sun and thousands of twin stars left the center of the Milky Way 6 billion years ago

A team of researchers has obtained conclusive evidence placing the Sun, approximately 4.6 billion years ago, as part of a vast migratory stream of stars that left the central regions of the galaxy....

Mar 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalric and the Assassins

In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam whose goals were political as well as religious: they went after the Abbasid Cali...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Astronomers witness a planetary collision for the first time, 11,000 light-years from Earth

Anastasios Tzanidakis was reviewing archival telescope data from 2020 when he came across a seemingly unremarkable star that was behaving in an extraordinarily strange way. The object in question, ...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery in Yucatán reveals Maya foundational offerings from 3,000 years ago and their link to fertility and the underworld

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) confirmed the discovery of a ritual deposit in the locality of Yaxché de Peón, belonging to the municipality of Ucú, in Yucatán, whose char...

Mar 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Aurochs Skull Impaled on a Wooden Post 10,500 Years Ago Reveals the Earliest Animistic Rituals in Northern Europe

Research at the Lüchow LA 11 site, located on the southwestern margin of the present-day Duvenseer Moor peat bog in the German district of Herzogtum Lauenburg, has provided new data that transform ...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Manage to Revive Activity in the Brain of a Cryogenized Mouse for the First Time

A research team from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) has achieved a milestone in the field of cryopreservation: for the first time, they have managed to restore function...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Another 13,000 inscribed ostraca found at Athribis, now the largest Egyptian site of ceramic fragments related to astronomy

The Egyptian-German archaeological mission, composed of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the University of Tübingen, has concluded the excavation season at the site of Athribis, in the provin...

Mar 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

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

Mar 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The 1170 Syrian Earthquake

On the morning of 29 June 1170, the inhabitants of what are now western Syria, central southern Turkey, and Lebanon were disturbed by one of the largest seismic events ever to occur along the north...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Antarctic Lake That Never Freezes: Don Juan Pond, the Most Extreme Salt Flat on Earth and the Place Most Similar to Mars

It was the year 1961 when two helicopter pilot lieutenants, Don Roe and John Hickey, were flying over the western end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land in Antarctica. What they saw from the air wo...

Mar 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

34 Samnite Tombs Discovered in Pontecagnano, 15 of Them Belonging to Children with Large Bronze Belts

The continuous archaeological protection activity carried out by the Soprintendenza of Salerno in the municipality of Pontecagnano Faiano, in the Italian province of Salerno, since the 1960s has gr...

Mar 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Offering RSS vs Newsletters

I came across an interesting take by Sebastian Sastre on why he uses an RSS feed instead of a newsletter for his blog. I agree with the feed-first position. However, I personally recommend using bo...

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 10,000-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Türkiye Could Rewrite the Origins of Sedentary Life and Civilization

A team of archaeologists from Mardin Artuklu University, in southeastern Türkiye, has brought to light one of the most important discoveries for understanding the origins of civilization in norther...

Mar 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-10-26

I missed publishing a set of Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. But that just means I have more links saved for today. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed....

Mar 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Egypt Again

January 1169 saw the death of Bertrand of Blancfort, the master of the Templars. Bertrand was not as keen on invading Egypt as was Amalric I, King of Jerusalem.  In August of that year, no doubt wi...

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

First Direct Evidence of the Use of Sickles to Harvest Cereals by the Ancient Canarians Found in Gran Canaria

A research team from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) has revealed the results of an exhaustive analysis of the stone tools recovered from the C008 cave complex, located on the ...

Mar 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists achieve a historic milestone by dating French cave paintings with carbon-14 for the first time

A team led by a researcher from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has achieved a milestone in prehistoric archaeology by confirming through absolute dating the age of several parie...