Posts tagged "history"

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...

Mar 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Roger de Moulins

Roger de Moulins was not known to history until 1177 when he became Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller. His chief concern seemed to be urging King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem to be aggressive in th...

Mar 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Fish in Lake Tanganyika Can Perceive Where a Diver Is Looking and React More Aggressively if Their Young Are Observed Directly

In the depths of Lake Tanganyika in Africa, one of the oldest and most diverse freshwater ecosystems on the planet, lives a discreet giant: the emperor cichlid (Boulengerochromis microlepis). This ...

Mar 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The earliest clay beads of Humanity, found in Natufian sites from 15,000 years ago, bear 50 fingerprints of children, adolescents, and adults

An international team of archaeologists, led by Laurent Davin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Professor Leo...

Mar 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Pedro Alvares Cabral, the first person in History to have been on four continents, on his voyage of the year 1500

Although he was preceded by at least two Spaniards, Portuguese historiography attributes the discovery of Brazil to the Lusitanian Pedro Alvares Cabral, arguing that his predecessors only briefly s...

Mar 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Underwhelming HN Comments

Joel Chrono recently published a good blog post titled Setting up phones is a nightmare that is certainly worth reading (it made me happy that I was able to find affordable older Google Pixels on E...

Mar 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The man who claimed the throne of France in the Middle Ages, asserting he had been switched at birth

Some time ago we devoted an article to Cola di Rienzo, an apostolic notary of humble origin who lived in the 14th century and strove to restore Rome’s former imperial splendor through a series of r...

Mar 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Search Engine Shortcuts in Firefox

James at James’ Coffee Blog published a good post in 2024 titled Search engine shortcuts in Firefox, which regular New Leaf Journal readers will know is a topic near and dear to my heart. James dem...

Mar 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-18-26

I continue my perfect daily Pook-Emu Bee links stretch. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Japanese onsen egg maker from 100-yen store Daiso need...

Mar 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Didn’t the Mycenaeans fish? Linear B tablets do not mention fishing in ancient Greece before the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces

For decades, historians have considered fishing a minor economic activity in the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age. The absence of references to this practice in the Linear B tablets, the ad...

Mar 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Templars versus Hospitallers

In the 12th century, while the kingdoms established in the Holy land by Western Europeans were struggling to maintain themselves against their Muslim neighbors, two of their chief means if support ...

Mar 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The First Four-Wheeled Chariots of the British Iron Age Discovered, Buried as an Offering by the Ancestors of Queen Cartimandua

In 2021, a metal detectorist authorized by the owner of a farm in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, made a discovery that has astonished archaeologists. Peter Heads found the first indications of what, fo...

Mar 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the Egtved Girl: the Bronze Age teenager who crossed Europe and challenges science

It was a cold morning on February 24, 1921, when farmer Peter Platz, shovel in hand, set out to do what so many farmers had done before him: level a mound of earth on his land to gain more farmland...

Mar 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Image Thumbnails in Nemo File Manager (EndeavourOS)

I had been using XFCE as my desktop on EndeavourOS. I switched to Cinnamon after having some issues with XFCE (I believe tied to Nvidia drivers). Since I switched my desktop environment, I then had...

Mar 18, 2026 from Palladium

The World Needs Your Great Work

Society has lost our sense of greatness and the reasons it is worth pursuing. This is especially relevant to those with wealth, who are best positioned to reclaim this pursuit. The post The World N...

Mar 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

U.S. States With Alienation of Affection Laws

According to WRAL News on November 11, 2025, six U.S. states still still have alienation of affection laws: Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah. I knew about Nor...

Mar 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists find the largest extraterrestrial iron object from the Bronze Age in China, impossible to manufacture with the technology of the time

The discovery, published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, presents the results of analyses carried out on a metal piece shaped like an axe or elongated tool, about 20 centimeters lon...

Mar 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-17-26

I have some pressing work-work to attend to today, but I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links last week. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you c...

Mar 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Heraclius in Europe

So Heraclius of Jerusalem set off for Europe to find support for the Latin kingdoms in the Holy Land and perhaps a husband for Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. (She already had a husband, Guy of Lusigna...

Mar 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A complete Bronze Age loom with carbonized wood found in Alicante reveals how textiles were made 3,500 years ago

The image we usually have of Prehistory rarely includes looms. Stone tools, pottery, or bones tend to take center stage in museums, while wood, plant fiber, and cloth—materials that are perishable ...