Posts tagged "history"

Mar 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

First Impression of Pokémon Winds and Waves

I recently read about the announcement of the generation 10 Pokémon entries, Winds and Waves. I have yet to actually play through Scarlet and Violet and have no current plans to buy a Switch 2, so ...

Mar 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-05-26

It is time four our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I personally recommend following the main site feed for all of my postings). Links from aroun...

Mar 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalric Ascends

Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, contracted dysentery in 1162 after taking some pills from a Syriac physician. He was only 33 years old, and healthy prior to the pills, so poison was suspected, but ...

Mar 05, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.

Mar 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Oldest Known Mallard

I subscribe to Cornell Lab’s All About Birds RSS feed. Through the feed, I learned that “[t]he oldest known Mallard was a male, and at least 27 years, 7 months old when he was shot in Arkansas in 2...

Mar 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; On Ruka in Rent-A-Girlfriend

“Infnitezenith” published an interesting review of the fourth season of the Rent-A-Girlfriend anime in a post titled Terrible Anime Challenge: Kanojo, Okarishimasu Season Four and Contemplating A H...

Mar 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-04-26

Yesterday, I made up for missing an entry in my new daily Pook-Emu Bee links series. Today, I publish the links early in the day (which is when they should be published). Links from around the web ...

Mar 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Agnes of Courtenay

Some women in the Middle Ages became pawns as wives to powerful men. Some women had power in their own right and wielded it despite opposition from their husbands, like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Que...

Mar 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Pokémon That Deserve a Second Chance

Tim Rattay of Nintendo Life published a list of Pokémon which he believe deserve a “second chance.” His list is solid. I thought about my own contributions, limiting myself to Pokémon which (A) I d...

Mar 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

GrapheneOS-Motorola Partnership

Motorola and GrapheneOS announced a new partnership for developing phones that meet GrapheneOS’s security standards (see Motorola News and GrapheneOS Forum Post). This strikes me as good news after...

Mar 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

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

I missed posting daily Pook-Emu Bee Links yesterday, but we are back in business on this rainy (in Brooklyn NYC, at least) March 3, 2026. Links from around the web 1. On veteran rival’s turf, Nepal...

Mar 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Amalric

Queen Melisende and Fulk of Anjou had a second son, Amalric, born in 1136. When his grandfather, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, was on his deathbed in 1131, he conferred the kingdom on Melisende, Fu...

Mar 03, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.

Mar 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Baldwin vs. Melisende

The young King Baldwin III of Jerusalem really wanted to be seen as a military commander. To do this, he would have to take steps to overcome people's (and his mother's) memories of his previous la...

Mar 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-01-26

I am late with today’s selection of Pook-Emu Bee Links, but we need not allow a backlog to form (I have enough backlog as it is). 1. The Eerie ‘Blood’ Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thank...

Mar 01, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

On Bombing Iran

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to change the behavior of the Iranian regime; others say the aim of the war is to end ...

Mar 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Baldwin and the Second Crusade

After the defeat and embarrassment of the Bosra incident, Queen Melisende tried to keep her son and co-ruler, King Baldwin III of Jerusalem, out of the spotlight. Charters issued from the throne af...

Feb 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Baldwin in Bosra

The decision to go to Bosra (pictured) and help Altuntash become ruler of the Hauran against the wishes of Damascene ruler Mu'in ad-Din Unur was taken by Baldwin III of Jerusalem for reasons that h...

Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

From Thunar to PCManFM

I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as m...

Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-27-26

Welcome to edition four of my Pook-Emu Bee links of the day. Pokemon turns 30 today (although as an American, its birthday from my perspective is September 28, 1998), so we will need some links for...