Posts tagged "history"

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...

Feb 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Queen Melisende

With Fulk of Anjou dead from a riding accident in 1143, Melisende now had full control over the Kingdom of Jerusalem with her son Baldwin III still only 13 years old. (The illustration is of their ...

Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Grokipedia Cites to My Anime Review

I checked the top NLJ backlinks on Ahrefs (the limited free selection). I saw Grokipedia: I understand that Grokipedia is the X AI answer to Wikipedia. While I have some documented issues with Wiki...

Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

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

Posting links for the third edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Maduro’s Ouster Creates Existential Crisis for Lukashenka (Dmitry Bolkunets for Jamestown Foundation. February 25,...

Feb 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Melisende and Fulk, Part 3

The King and Queen of Jerusalem were very involved in supporting and promoting the Christian religion. Queen Melisende contributed to many convents, for instance, starting with the Convent of Sant ...

Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Early Flaw With Tuta Calendar-Thunderbird Integration

Tuta Calendar’s Thunderbird plugin opens Tuta in a webapp in Thunderbird. With my set-up at least, I cannot stay signed in. That is a bit of an annoyance when I have 2FA set up. Early Flaw With Tut...

Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

What is the YandoriRSSBot?

I just happened to have my NLJ logs open (I had opened them when the site was slow for a moment). I saw something called the YandoriRSSBot requesting the NLJ ATOM feed. While not unprecedented, alm...

Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-25-26

It is time for more daily links in the second edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review (Nicholas A. Ferrell at The New Leaf Journal. February 25, ...

Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration

AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird.  I have a cheap Tuta account (so cheap it is no longer available, thank you grandfathering) t...

Feb 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin

Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” t...

Feb 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Melisende and Fulk, Part 2

After a rocky start to their life as King and Queen of Jerusalem, Fulk of Anjou and Melisende started to work together.Melisende was particularly angry, however, at Rohard the Elder, a one-time ret...

Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-24-26

Welcome to the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee, where I will publish interesting links (maybe daily!) collected from my feed collection (or unused newsletter link backlog). I usually include 21 l...

Feb 24, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches

This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune! In particular, I want to approach the question in two parts: first ask...

Feb 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Melisende and Fulk, Part 1

Fulk of Anjou made sure that King of Jerusalem Baldwin II's choice of eldest daughter Melisende to succeed him was firm before he agreed to marry her. Once Baldwin died in August 1131, Melisende be...

Feb 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Melisende

Baldwin II, Count of Edessa, and Morphia of Melitene had four daughters. When it seemed likely that a son was not going to happen, Baldwin named his eldest daughter Melisende as his heir presumptiv...

Feb 22, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sibylla in Jerusalem

When Thierry of Alsace, the Count of Flanders, made his third pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1157, he took his wife, Sibylla of Anjou. They had been married for over 15 years and had several childr...

Feb 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sibylla of Anjou

When Fulk V of Anjou married his daughter Sibylla (c. 1112 – 1165) to William Clito, a grandson of William the Conqueror, it seemed like a match with much potential. Unfortunately, King Henry I of ...

Feb 21, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-up in the latest ACOUP Senate poll, coming out of quite a few requests to discuss...

Feb 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Death of William Clito

So King Henry I of England managed to get the marriage of William Clito and Sibylla of Anjou annulled in 1124 through the help of Pope Calixtus II. Henry did not want Clito allied with the powerful...

Feb 19, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

The Life and Work of George Boole (Review)

George Boole (1815-1864) was a mathematician best known as the progenitor of the Boolean algebra, the system of logic that acts as a fundamental layer within digital systems. Although he never gain...