Posts tagged "history"

Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26

I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...

Sep 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Totila the Ostrogoth

Although the coins later minted during his reign as king of the Osgtrogoths name him Baduila, he has become known as Totila through the writings of men like Procopius. "Totila" was a diminutive nam...

Sep 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bronze Age Sardinians Were Trading Metal with Scotland and Sweden— 500 Years Before the Phoenicians

A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or a village in southern Sweden. That is the striking picture drawn by Sere...

Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Sumo Ballet

I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu deliv...

Sep 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Belisarius Returns to Italy

The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern. They were successful, thanks to the strategies and (in one cas...

Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...

Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...

Sep 18, 2026 from Palladium

Don’t Count Out the Country House

The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpting a worthy elite. Scrapping them for bureaucracy might prove a costly mistake. ...

Sep 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Nika Riots, Part 3

Emperor Justinian's plan to end the Nika Riots involved bribes. One difficulty about the Riots was that two large and influential rival factions, the Blues and the Greens, had joined together again...

Sep 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Earth Isn’t a Perfect Sphere — But It’s Changing Shape Faster Than Expected

Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape geodesists call an oblate spheroid — think of a basketball very gently squeezed ...

Sep 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Iron and Bronze Workshop Almost as Big as a Villa Uncovered in Switzerland

Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the border with Italy, when they hit the remains of a Roman factory built almost two t...

Sep 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Day Julius Caesar Was Assassinated, Half the City Was Drunk Because It Was the Feast of an Obscure Roman Goddess: Who Was Anna Perenna?

While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having a picnic. They drank wine, pitched makeshift tents out of branches and cloth, an...

Sep 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Laser Scans Reveal 23 Hidden Ship Carvings on a 3,000-Year-Old Cyprus Temple — Made From the Bronze Age Collapse to the Age of Homer

Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved into the walls of Kition Kathari, an archaeological site beneath the modern city o...

Sep 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Nika Riots, Part 2

Let's look at how Emperor Justinian managed to stop the Nika Riots and save Constantinople. We saw yesterday how the Blue and Green factions were angered over the treatment of some of their own peo...

Sep 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 328-Foot Underground Aqueduct Discovered in the Sabine Hills Shows Rome Wasn’t the First to Master Water Engineering

In the district of Monteleone Sabino, a town of under 1,300 people in Italy’s Rieti province, a team of cavers has made its way through a passage first cut into the mountainside more than two thous...

Sep 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mosaic floors worthy of a palace discovered in the classroom where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great

Some 40 miles (65 km) from Thessaloniki, a teenager who would go on to reshape the ancient world once sat listening to lessons on physics, ethics and politics under stone colonnades. That teenager ...

Sep 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How a Tiny Danish Colony Ruled a Piece of India for 225 Years

Tharangambadi is a fishing village on India’s Coromandel Coast, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Its name means “place of the singing waves,” a nod to the Indian Ocean lapping at its shore. It isn’t muc...

Sep 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Nika Riots, Part 1

Constantinople during the reign  of Emperor  Justinian I (482 - 565) saw a tumultuous week in 532. The catalyst was a little earlier, when in 531 the city prefect, Eudaimon, arrested some citizens ...

Sep 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 3,200-Year-Old War Horse’s Tomb Turns Up Inside a Ramesses II Border Fort

Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, the kingdom kept a chain of garrisons along its western frontier, watching for ra...