Posts tagged "history"

Oct 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sparta Founded Only One Colony in Its History, and Filled It With the “Sons of Virgins”

When we think of Greek colonization, we think of Athens, Corinth or the cities of Euboea, which scattered new settlements across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Sparta hardly looked abroad at ...

Oct 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The End of Hormizd IV

So Hormizd IV was dealing with a civil war when a successful military leader decided he was destined to lead the Iranian Empire. Hormizd asked his general Farrukhan to leave the army and put down t...

Oct 07, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus

The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by Berkeley residents in the 1980s. Since residents posted messages through publicly...

Oct 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Hunters’ Camp with a Rare Antler Axe Was Found Directly Beneath the First Farmers’ Layers in an Italian Cave

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer right below it belongs to the hunters who lived there before them. The ca...

Oct 07, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.

Oct 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Solar System Could Fall Apart a Billion Times Sooner Than Scientists Thought

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting answers. Isaac Newton was not so sure. He suspected that the mutual tugs betw...

Oct 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 45-Million-Year-Old New Crocodile Species Found in the Same Rock as the Great Sphinx Is Missing Its Nose, Too

The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be missing the tip of its snout too. The coincidence has put a name on a s...

Oct 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Dunkirk Was Besieged by the Allies for Eight Months and Capitulated to A Czechoslovak Brigade One Day after Germany’s Surrender

In 2017 the director Christopher Nolan brought Dunkirk back to cinema screens with Dunkirk, a film about the hurried and agonising retreat of the Allied armies from the European mainland in 1940. T...

Oct 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Interpreting Trackback Spam on NLJ

I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/trackback spam. For that reason, I took note when my first 2D Japanese girl hair...

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Sword From the Age of Ramesses II Pulled From an Italian Volcanic Lake Still Has a Sharp Edge

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the stat...

Oct 06, 2026 from Palladium

Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity

Why do Americans who forecast artificial intelligence capabilities misread China? The post Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity appeared first on Palladium.

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Frescoes Found Beside the Spot Where Greeks Once Voted in Agrigento

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples was where the free citizens of Akragas met to decide their city’s business. Akragas is ...

Oct 06, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

Carl Jung’s copy of an alchemical hoax, purporting to detail the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Oct 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Hormizd IV

Iranian Emperor Khosrow I maintained a level of religious tolerance (except for Mazdakism), during his reign (531 - 579),. His son was also tolerant.Hormizd IV (reigned 579 - 590) turned down reque...

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bronze Age Man Buried Under a Doorway With a Stone in His Mouth in Southeastern Spain May Have Been Trampled Like Egypt’s Enemies

Around 3,700 years ago, anyone crossing the great hall at La Almoloya, a hilltop settlement in the Sierra Espuña mountains of southeastern Spain, had to walk over a man. He lay at the exact point w...

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Has Been Found in Cleopatra’s Sunken Harbour

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 and 1323, brought down the tower that had guided ships towards the city fo...

Oct 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Field That Was India Inside Bangladesh Inside India Inside Bangladesh — The World’s Only “Russian Doll” Territory Vanished in 2015

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch. It was called Dahala Khagrabari (enclave number 51) and it belonged to ...

Oct 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

15 Clay Tablets From Ur Reveal Unknown Places, an Ancient Princess Whose Farm Ran on Its Own Rules, and a Village Inhabited by Prisoners of War

Each of these tablets fits in the palm of a hand. The smallest measures a little over 3 centimetres (1.3 inches) across and the largest 11.5 (4.5 inches), and nearly all of them deal with the least...

Oct 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The End of Mazdak

Two days ago I promised you a grisly end to Mazdak and his followers. Yesterday was the set-up: Iranian Emperor Kavad tried to be tolerant of Mazdak, a priest who preached a doctrine that was not i...

Oct 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Ancient Greek Paradox May Help Explain Why the Universe Could Be Stuck in the Wrong State

Physicists have been asking an awkward question for decades. If the universe is built from invisible fields, why has each one ended up in the state we find it in, and not in some other? A team at t...