Posts tagged "history"

Mar 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Bossert Hotel Work in Brooklyn Heights (March 2026)

I saw new scaffolding going up around the iconic, and now derelict, Bossert Hotel building in Brooklyn Heights. According to Brooklyn Bridge Parents, the new scaffolding is going up so that new new...

Mar 21, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the Chinese system has a telos. The Chinese part...

Mar 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

King Harold II’s Historic March of More Than 200 Miles to the Battle of Hastings Is a Myth — He Actually Sailed

The epic march of nearly 200 miles (about 321 kilometers) that King Harold II of England and his exhausted men supposedly undertook from the north of the country to the field of the Battle of Hasti...

Mar 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Gerard de Ridefort

Gerard de Riefort (that's his coat of arms to the left) is another of the many characters who has no known background recorded anywhere—we don't know his family, birthdate, education, even whence h...

Mar 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The fascinating history of Mount Pangaion, the gold mountain that forged empires

In northern Greece, between the Strymon and Xiropotamos rivers, rises a mass of stone that has been a silent witness to the birth and fall of empires. Its name is Pangaion, a mountain that does not...

Mar 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Heaviest Owl in North America

I learned from Cornell Labs’ All About Birds site that the Snowy Owl is the heaviest bird in North America, “typically weighing about 4 pounds—one pound heavier than a Great Horned Owl and twice th...

Mar 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Sega Genesis Stock Ticker Available

My first video game console was a Sega Genesis. I received mine in 1994. Back in 1994, I almost certainly had no idea what a stock was, much less a ticker. But had I known, I am sure I would have w...

Mar 20, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: March 20, 2026

Hey folks! I was traveling this week to give an invited talk at Western Michigan University, so I don’t have a blog post ready for you. That’ll also probably be the case for next week (where I will...

Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Return Old Online Things to your own Site

I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she described how she pulled everything she has published online in various places sin...

Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-20-26

Another day means more daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Note that the Pook-Emu Bee will take tomorrow off for The Newsletter Leaf Journal (which features even more links), but should return on Sunday. If ...

Mar 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Hospitallers Change

Founded originally to care for the sick and poor in Jerusalem, there were new statutes for the Hospitallers in March 1182 under the leadership of their grandmaster, Roger de Moulins. These new stat...

Mar 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthals Used Birch Tar as an Antibiotic

An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated with tool-making by Neanderthals, possesses antibacterial properties that could...

Mar 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Timeline of the First Humans in America Is Completely Wrong, According to New Dating of Monte Verde Site

A new study led by Todd Surovell, an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, together with a team of collaborators from Chile, Austria, and the United States Geological Survey, has called into ...

Mar 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily

A team of archaeologists has managed to reconstruct the details of an ancient cult of the ancestors which, according to historical sources, served as a unifying element between Greek settlers and t...

Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Jeff Green’s Career-High 43 on 03-18-13

Brian Windhorst for ESPN wrote 27 straight wins: The most dominant stretch of LeBron James’ career, revisiting the 27-game winning streak of the 2012-13 Miami Heat. I followed the NBA closely that ...

Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

MSN Dial-Up Internet in 2026

I read Dave Luna’s interesting hacker story Hacking the Compaq iPAQ IA-2 Internet Appliance. I learned many things from reading. But one fact which jumped out to me was a note about Microsoft’s MSN...

Mar 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Carroll Street Bridge Proposals

The Carroll Street Bridge is the second bridge crossing Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, situated between the Union Street and Third Street Bridges. It is the most interesting of the Gowanus Canal Bridges...

Mar 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-19-26

Another day means more daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux (Michael Larabel for ...

Mar 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

A new phase of archaeological research carried out between 2023 and 2025 at the site of Altilia (central-southern Italy), where the ancient Saepinum is located, is providing a more complex and dyna...

Mar 19, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History

In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belie...