Posts tagged "history"

Jun 12, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration

This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope t...

Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26

I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds in a 32-Meter-Deep Etruscan Well Reveal Surprises About Modern Wine

The history of wine in one of Italy’s most emblematic regions has just been rewritten thanks to genetics. An international team of scientists has sequenced the DNA of two-thousand-year-old grape se...

Jun 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Sun and Moon Allegory

Pope Innocent III was determined to assert papal authority over every area possible. He made sure that kings, although they had their "local" political power, were still under the spiritual authori...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A prehistoric cave older than Neanderthals and modern humans discovered, sealed for 300,000 years

A team led by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa, with the support of the Ayalon Highways company, has discovered and is currently excavating a cave estimated to be 300,00...

Jun 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How the Macedonians Disguised as Women Killed the Persian Envoys before the First Greco-Persian War

The ancient Kingdom of Macedonia is known, above all, for the period of the Argead dynasty, whose most renowned representatives were Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great. However, they reigne...

Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Missing Brand Music Video Ads

According to a May 27, 2026 report in Marketing Brew by Katie Hicks titled Why so many brands are releasing music videos, ” it seems brand-created music videos are making a comeback as marketers ar...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Turning a Blog Into a Book

Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Epitaph of Seikilos, the oldest song preserved complete with musical notation and text

Although archaeologists have found written music texts older than the Greek Epitaph of Seikilos, such as the Hurrian Songs dating back to 1400 B.C., these are incomplete. Only one Hurrian song, des...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Static Site Webmentions

Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form....

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,700-Year-Old Figurine Found in Guatemala Bears the Oldest Numbers in Mesoamerica

The piece, just a few centimeters and fragmented, belongs to the tradition of the so-called tongue figurines and was found in the sector known as Grupo Joyas, one kilometer from the ceremonial cent...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26

I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face Tensions with Al-Sharaa’s Government (Jacob Zenn for J...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Whale Necropolis in the World Discovered in the Indian Ocean, with Millions of Fossils and Remains from 5.3 Million Years Ago to the Present

A team of researchers has documented in the Diamantina Zone, in the southeastern Indian Ocean, the most extensive and deepest aggregation of cetacean remains and active ecosystems associated with w...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.

Jun 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Pope Innocent III

Finally, the pope mentioned more than any other in this blog gets his time in the spotlight. He was named Lothario at birth, and his father, Trasimondo, was a count in the city of Segni in central ...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Evidence of the Siege of the Ancient City of Qabra in Northern Mesopotamia 4,000 Years Ago During the Bronze Age Discovered

An archaeological excavation led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, near the city of Erbil, has provided a set of physical evidence that compels the rewriting...

Jun 11, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

HMS Sappho, the British ship that seized an American slave brig causing a diplomatic incident, and then disappeared without a trace

HMS Sappho was the name—curious for a warship—of a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy that played a role in a diplomatic incident between the United Kingdom and the United States: in 1856 it boarded an A...

Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

A Moka Pot Pen

I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot. When I saw the headline on The Well Apportioned Desk, I was not sure what to ex...

Jun 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Stellar Wind Detected by the James Webb Telescope Is Responsible for the Large Number of Massive Dead Galaxies in the Early Universe

The paradox has been on astrophysicists’ desks for years: observations of the early universe show a number of massive and already inert galaxies far higher than what conventional models of cosmic e...

Jun 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)

A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.