Posts tagged "history"

Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Visual Novel Definition From Academic Paper

I collected academic papers about visual novels for at least one ongoing NLJ article project. I figured that the best place to start my reading was “What is a Visual Novel?” This paper, authored by...

Aug 04, 2026 from Palladium

China is Building a Blue Granary

The People’s Republic of China hopes to turn the open ocean into the world’s largest farm. It might not be a bad idea. The post China is Building a Blue Granary appeared first on Palladium.

Aug 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-04-26

My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby s...

Aug 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover That the Great Neolithic Kapellenberg Mound in Germany Has a Central Tomb Linked to Prehistoric Monuments in Northern France

The archaeological excavations currently being carried out at Kapellenberg, near Hofheim am Taunus in Germany, have provided new evidence during this summer campaign regarding the possible location...

Aug 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Henry Bolingbroke

I wrote not too long ago about Bolingbroke and his adversarial relationship with hui cousin, Richard II. It might be useful to see him as an individual, starting with his youth.Henry was born c.Apr...

Aug 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mirin Dajo, the Dutch “Invulnerable” Man Who Pierced His Body with Swords and Swallowed Needles and Razor Blades

Fakir is a term of Arabic origin that can be translated as “poor” and originally referred to a Muslim holy man, a Sufi saint, although since the Mughal Era it has also been applied to Hindu sadhus ...

Aug 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Colossal Lydian Marble Statue of 2.2 Meters from the 5th Century BC Found in Sardis Depicting a Young Man Offering a Quince

The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery in the ancient city of Sardis, in the province of Manisa, of a male marble sculpture approximately 2,50...

Aug 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Unique Roman Funerary Monument Is Discovered in the Ancient City of Emona, Present-Day Ljubljana

The Potniški Center intersection, in the heart of Ljubljana, has become a genuine hive of archaeological activity in recent weeks. Excavation work, being carried out against the clock due to schedu...

Aug 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Downfall of the Lords Appellant

The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King ...

Aug 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Roman Lead Sling Bullets Reveal Two Distinct Routes in the Conquest of the Alps

In the summer of 15 BC, Emperor Augustus’ two stepsons, Tiberius and Drusus, brought the Central Alps and the Swiss Plateau under Roman control. That campaign concluded decades of efforts to link t...

Aug 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna

I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato ...

Aug 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 2

After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered the most corrupt, the Lords Appellant decided to sweep through the rest of the ad...

Aug 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Detect Stones That May Have Human Shapes Beneath the Enormous Neolithic Mounds of Coëby in Brittany

In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of Coëby, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by th...

Aug 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting ...

Aug 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Merciless Parliament, Part 1

A few years back I offered a brief look at the Lords Appellant, the group put in charge of England because of the excesses in the administration of the king, Richard II. Richard tried to overthrow ...

Aug 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Shipwreck from the 5th-4th Centuries BC with a Cargo of Amphorae Containing Wine from the Northern Islands and the Bosporus Found off the Coast of Andros Island

The Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, under the Greek Ministry of Culture, has completed an official inspection at a point along the shoreline of the island of Andros following a report from a pr...

Aug 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A section of the Roman road connecting the fortifications of the Germanic Limes discovered beneath the route of the A8 highway in Germany

The construction of the new variant of the A8 highway in the area known as the Albaufstieg, south of Stuttgart (Germany), has uncovered a first-rate archaeological find: a segment of the ancient Ro...

Jul 31, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, July 31, 2026 (On The Odyssey)

Hey folks, Fireside this week, as I am fresh back from a short family trip before the jaws of the Fall semester close upon me. I did get a chance to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and I wrote ...

Jul 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times

I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the...

Jul 31, 2026 from Palladium

Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation

The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it. The post Post-Scarcity Leads to Technological Stagnation appeared first on Palladium.