Posts tagged "history"

Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Checking in on the Kyushu Basho Through Day 4

I made ten pre-tournament predictions for the now-ongoing Kyushu Basho on November 6. Now, through day four, I check in on my predictions with some new assessments. My yusho pick was K1w Yoshinofuj...

Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder

A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers ...

Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season

The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.

Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-11-26

Happy Veteran’s Day to all who served. While it is a federal holiday, the Pook-Emu Bee is ready for work. Veteran’s Day 1 | Veteran’s Day 2026. Dennis A. Mook at Wandering Lensman. Nov. 11, 2026. W...

Nov 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Find the Oldest Fired Clay Containers in the Near East, Made 2,000 Years Before Pottery Became Common

We tend to picture the origins of pottery in the first farming villages, where clay jars were used to store grain and other food. The Upper Tigris Valley tells a different story. Around 9350 B.C., ...

Nov 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Men Helping the Jews, Part 3

That title is not meant to justify or praise the men of whom I'm speaking. At the time it was thought by Christians that the best approach to dealing with the "problem" of Jews was to kill them or ...

Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Triumph of Labour: Walter Crane’s Cartoons for the Cause (1896)

Socialist illustrations intended as party favours for participants in the International Workers’ Congress.

Nov 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Glass, Chinese Jade and Korean-Linked Silver Found in Mongolia’s Largest Xiongnu Tomb

Tomb 160 at Duurlig Nars, in eastern Mongolia, measures about 73 meters (240 feet) including its access ramp. Yet the chamber where the occupant was buried is small and shallow, an odd fit for a mo...

Nov 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Bridge More Than 3,800 Years Old Found in Iraq Over the Grand Canal of the Ancient Mesopotamian City of Larsa

For decades, scholars studying aerial photographs of Larsa saw a long, straight line running north to south across the city, up to the ziggurat—the great stepped tower of Mesopotamian temples. They...

Nov 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Unsolved Sumerian Enigma: They Invented Writing, but No One Knows Where Their Language Came From—or What It Resembles

In 1874, a Paris orientalist named Joseph Halévy began defending an idea that today sounds almost like a joke: that Sumerian had never been a spoken language at all, but a secret code invented by t...

Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Facts About Best NBA Game Score Performances

Inspired by Victor Wembanyama’s historic performance on November 4, 2026, wherein he posted a Game Score of 55.2 in just over 34 minutes of game action, I examined the minutes totals for players wh...

Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

World’s Largest Artificial Reefs

The SS United States, a historic 990-foot ocean liner, will be intentionally sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Mike Schuler, writing for gCaptain, noted that it will bec...

Nov 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-10-26

Let’s make it two Pook-Emu Bee links posts in a row. Revisiting Prior Articles and Quips 1 | Report: Anti-Israel Former Dictator Nicolas Maduro Studying Judaism, Met With a Rabbi in Prison. Christi...

Nov 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Taung Child, the fossil that put our origins in Africa, upends human evolution again

Of all the fossils that have been piled into the species Australopithecus africanus over the decades, only one can be assigned to it without dispute: the skull of a child about three years old, fou...

Nov 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Men Helping the Jews, Part 2

Yesterday's post mentioned three witnesses to King Henry III's charter that established the Domus Conversorum. Hubert de Burgh has been discussed before, but Mauclerc and des Roches have not. All t...

Nov 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

D. W. Griffith’s A Corner in Wheat (1909)

D. W. Griffith’s moral tale of agricultural greed, borrowing from Frank Norris’ antimonopolist fictions.

Nov 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The 1,700-year-old Mystery of 9,000 Frog Bones in Roman Britain Solved

When archaeologists working on the route of the A14 highway between Cambridge and Huntingdon emptied a shallow ditch at the Bar Hill site, tiny bones began to surface — and they kept coming. More t...

Nov 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Inscribed Step in Maya City of Ocomtún Reveals Original Name of Its Neighbor and Enemy: Sakil

A carved step from Ocomtún has yielded a probable original name for a newly found Maya settlement in Campeche—and a rare textual hint of hostility between two neighboring cities in the jungle of so...

Nov 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Channel Islands: the unusual British territory where each island has its own parliament, is independent of the others, and is not part of the United Kingdom

In an earlier article we looked at the German invasion of the Channel Islands, the only British territory occupied by Germany during the Second World War, and asked whether the islands can really b...

Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-09-26

Pook-Emu Bee links have been sporadic lately. But my backlog grows. It is time for me to get back to work (before work-work, that is). How I avoided tech unpleasantness 1 | Your Gmail and Photos co...