Posts tagged "history"

Mar 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A fragment of marble from the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon is found in one of Lord Elgin’s ships sunk in 1802

Fieldwork carried out during the 2025 campaign has made it possible to locate, for the first time, a remnant of the valuable cargo transported by the vessel owned by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of E...

Mar 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Bhola Cyclone Was the Deadliest in History and Precipitated the Independence of Bangladesh

The first benefit concert in history was held on August 1, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York. It consisted of two consecutive sessions organized by former Beatle George Harrison and the In...

Mar 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

3rd Anime Season For The Dangers in My Heart

Anime News Network reported that The Dangers in My Heart will receive a third anime season in 2027. I reviewed the first two seasons on NLJ (see first season and second season reviews). While my fi...

Mar 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Forgotten Time When Crusader Knights Controlled the Caribbean: The Strange 14-Year Experiment of the Order of Malta

If there is something that characterizes the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, it is having had to wander from place to place in search of a fixed site where it could settle, a process during which...

Mar 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-16-26

I was inconsistent in publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links last week. But I am on the ball this week. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. Links from a...

Mar 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Giant Elephants Killed by Neanderthals Had Traveled More Than 300 Kilometers Across Central Europe to the Site Where They Were Hunted

The analysis of fossilized molars from four specimens of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the largest terrestrial mammal of the European Pleistocene, has allowed an international team of researchers to reco...

Mar 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Heraclius of Jerusalem

When King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem as worried about finding a husband for his sister who could run the kingdom, he sent Heraclius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, on a quest to find a suitable candidate...

Mar 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a Roman Concrete Bridge-Aqueduct That Supplied Water to First-Century Caesaraugusta Found in Zaragoza

Reurbanization work around Plaza de San Miguel and the Coso has brought to light a previously unknown structure in the city. It is an arcade built with opus caementicium, the characteristic concret...

Mar 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An exceptionally well-preserved Celtic grave assemblage discovered in the great mound of Riedlingen that tomb robbers of the 3rd century BC did not bother to take

Archaeologists from the heritage conservation department of the Stuttgart regional government have completed the main phase of research on the Celtic burial chamber discovered in 2023 on the outski...

Mar 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Zoomorphic andirons and miniature votive stipes buried as offerings by the Veneti of ancient Patavium discovered in Padua

The subsoil of the historic center of Padua continues to provide essential evidence for understanding the urban evolution and cultural practices of its ancient inhabitants. The archaeological excav...

Mar 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Crispy Bacon in Japan

I came across Kat & Satoshi’s long-running Our Adventures in Japan blog on Marginalia Search when I was looking for a White Day link for issue 271 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. The White Day link...

Mar 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-15-26

I missed posting Pook-Emu Bee links on Friday and Saturday was newsletter day. But today we are back and ready to trim down my list of unused Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily lin...

Mar 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Double Marriage

So Sibylla of Jerusalem married Guy of Lusignan and spoiled the plot of others to marry her to someone else. He brother, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, was content that now there was someone to inhe...

Mar 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Incredible Story of Elyesa Bazna, the Spy Who Warned the Germans of the D-Day landings and Was Paid with Counterfeit Money

In 1952 the American director Joseph L. Mankiewicz released 5 Fingers, a film in which James Mason portrays a spy named Ulysses Diello. Set during the Second World War, it tells a true story by ada...

Mar 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

A Guy for Sibylla

After the death of William of Montferrat, Sibylla of Jerusalem needed a new husband. The kingdom of Jerusalem was in a difficult position. Her brother, King Baldwin IV, was suffering from leprosy a...

Mar 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A large Gallo-Roman sanctuary discovered in Burgundy, a ritual complex with two temples and banquets reserved for a local elite for nearly five centuries

The 2025 campaign, carried out over six weeks with the participation of thirty-five volunteers and five professionals, has made it possible to document with unprecedented detail the architectural a...

Mar 14, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad

This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune. Last week, we looked at the system of warfare that is dominant in the setting w...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Prehistoric Monument in Scandinavia Is Not a King’s Tomb but an Astonishing Attempt to Restore the Order of the World After a Catastrophe

For more than a century, Raknehaugen, the colossal earthen mound that rises about 40 kilometers north of Oslo, has been considered by archaeology to be the tomb of a powerful Iron Age chieftain. Wi...

Mar 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem

King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay, had three children. When Amalric was forced to put Agnes aside via annulment in order to be crowned, he first guaranteed that hi...

Mar 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Polar ice melt is slowing Earth’s rotation and lengthening days at an unprecedented rate in the last 3.6 million years

The length of a day is not immutable. Factors ranging from the gravitational pull of the Moon to complex movements within the planet constantly modify the time it takes for Earth to complete one ro...