Posts tagged "history"

Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Finding a Good Monospace Font For Prose

Unlike Ben Tsai, I have never been an engineer. But like Ben Tsai, I “appreciate the feel of a monospaced font, [and] want something that is optimized for prose.” In my case, I write drafts (and la...

Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

“Moments Away”

I added a significant number of Google News feeds for specific Brooklyn neighborhoods to my feed collection (future article topic?). I then went through the initial set of articles that came up. I ...

Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26

I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The ...

Aug 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Isabel's Planned Marriage

I mentioned yesterday the links between the three men who hatched the Southampton Plot to assassinate Henry V and put Edmund Mortimer on the throne. Two of the men made a close tie with each other ...

Aug 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Sons of Míl: The Science Behind the Irish Legend That Traces the Origins of the Celts to Northern Spain

In 2006, geneticist Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, published the results of a study that had taken him a decade to complete. His team had collected and analyz...

Aug 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Linear A Inscription Found on the Island of Crete Reveals a Minoan Ritual and the Name of a God Predating Dionysus

A small object made of dark stone, carved with astonishing precision almost 3,500 years ago, has provided researchers with one of the clearest windows yet into the religion of ancient Crete. It is ...

Aug 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26

Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Khol...

Aug 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An altar with pyramidal copper bells found in Bolivia reveals the power of sacred sounds in the Inca Empire

Atop an ancient grain storage building, in a settlement of the local Yampara elite, archaeologists Sonia Alconini and Walter Sánchez-Canedo have uncovered an exceptional find: a set of six copper b...

Aug 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Southampton Plot

People in England during the reign of Henry V were still trying to use Edmund Mortimer as a focal point for a rebellion.Edmund's sister, Anne Mortimer, had married the 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Richar...

Aug 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

This is how the Celts lived and ate 2000 years ago before the Romans arrived: cereals and wild fruits, but no legumes

More than two thousand years ago, in the middle of the Iron Age, the Celts built a large fortified settlement on two peninsulas that extended into the Rhine River, near what is now the Swiss city o...

Aug 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Trophonius, the Greek Oracle That Left Its Visitors Unable to Laugh for Months

In Ancient Greece, there was an expression to describe someone who had lived through a terrifying experience: it was said of him that he had gone down to the cave of Trophonius. It was not an empty...

Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-11-26

We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Articles 1 | NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: so...

Aug 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Origin of Life Would Not Have Been Favored Solely by Fortuitous Circumstances: Scientists Discover Early Earth’s Volcanic Rocks Contained Reactive Phosphorus

For more than seven decades, phosphorus has represented one of the great paradoxes in the study of the origin of life. This element, indispensable for the existence of living beings as we know them...

Aug 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Mortimer's Later Life

Although he was a thorn in the side of King Henry IV, because he had a greater claim to the throne and was used as a focal point for rebellion, Edmund Mortimer was nevertheless kept alive and safe....

Aug 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Huge Roman Dolium and a Possible Late Antique Shipwreck Discovered on the Seafloor of Elba Island

The waters surrounding Elba Island have once again yielded evidence of its millennia-old past. A dolium from the Roman era and a presumed shipwreck, still under study, have been located on the seab...

Aug 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Foundations of the Lost Hospedería of the Catholic Monarchs Found in Guadalupe

Excavations carried out during the past month of July in the monumental complex of Guadalupe (Extremadura, Spain) have brought to light the foundation remains of the former Hospedería of the Cathol...

Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful?

Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...

Aug 10, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Inventing ELIZA (Review)

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine”. ELIZA was a natural language “en...

Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26

Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...

Aug 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Group of Hunter-Gatherers Survived the Younger Dryas 14,000 Years Ago in a Cave in Northern Türkiye

A team of archaeologists has discovered in northern Turkey a settlement of hunter-gatherers who lived in the Koskarlı cave approximately 14,000 years ago. The remains found during the first excavat...