Posts tagged "history"

Nov 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Men Helping the Jews

Helping them to become Christians, that is. One of my first posts on this blog in the early days was about the Domus Conversorum, the "House of Converts." King Henry III wanted to turn Jews to Chri...

Nov 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

7,300 years ago, a supereruption buried southern Japan under two meters of ash, triggering the Jomon apocalypse

About 7,300 years ago, roughly 30 km (19 miles) south of Japan’s Kyushu island, a submarine volcano erupted with a force that is hard to imagine today. This was the Kikai-Akahoya eruption—K-Ah for ...

Nov 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Did Humans Almost Go Extinct With Only 2,000 Survivors? The Real Story Is Stranger Than We Thought

In April 2008, a genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics fundamentally changed how we tell the story of our origins. National Geographic summarized the findings in an arti...

Nov 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 3,000-Year Peruvian Paradox: Climate Chaos, Human Sacrifice—and Almost No Everyday Violence

Imagine a coastal desert where rain can go years without falling. Offshore, the sea is one of the richest fisheries on the planet. When the rivers come down from the Andes, they allow crops to grow...

Nov 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “Alien Megastructure” Star Is Still Unexplained 15 Years Later, and a Giant Planet Is Now Among the Suspects

In 2011, an amateur astronomer near Toronto, Adam Szewczyk, was going through star brightness charts at home when one caught his eye. He left a comment on a forum for volunteers: there was an odd d...

Nov 09, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Lou Pearlman Ponzi Scheme

United States · 1992–2007 · Fraud — Music mogul Lou Pearlman used the legitimate success of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC to conceal a massive financial fraud, stealing over $400 million from retail in...

Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Open Source Tools Behind ECS

Neil Brown is an English lawyer who runs his firm on free software. He recently shared the software that follows his law practice (see blog post). This humble website is also (mostly) powered by fr...

Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Random Endpoint Coming in WordPress 7.2

WordPress 7.2 will come with a “random” endpoint (see WordPress post). The feature, which will be enabled by default, will create random redirects for individual posts (it can also be limited by ca...

Nov 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A hunter-gatherer group crossed the northern Mediterranean 30,000 years ago, bringing a new type of stone tool from northern Spain to southern Italy

Archaeologists digging at Riparo Mochi knew exactly what they needed when they uncovered a prehistoric hearth wedged between huge blocks of rock: charcoal, to date it. Then the charcoal samples wer...

Nov 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

RSS Used in a Non-tech Quip

On March 5, 2026, City Journal published an entertaining and thoughtful essay by Ilya Shapiro titled Two Decades in the Swamp. I recommend the essay as a general matter, but here we will focus on j...

Nov 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

King Erwig

Visigothic King Wamba ruled from 672 to 680, when something happened to him. There are different stories about how he ended his reign. The main one is that he fell ill, took up monastic vows to sav...

Nov 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Spanish Royal with 88 Names, a Red Cross Presidency, and a Guinness Record: The Curious Life of Alfonso María de Borbón y Borbón

Alfonso María de Borbón y Borbón was a great-great-grandson of Carlos III, the son of a princely Carlist marriage and a cousin of King Alfonso XII. He never received the title of infante from the C...

Nov 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Twelfth Council of Toledo

Visigothic King Erwig called a council on 9 January 681 the Twelfth Council of Toledo. Part of his reason was to have the bishops attending confirm his accession to the throne to replace Wamba as l...

Nov 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Uncover a Roman Port Dating from Before Hadrian’s Time in Italy, With a Probable Winery on the Shore

Visitors looking for the Roman port of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot, usually end up at San Cataldo, a small seaside village about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the city. A stone pier still jut...

Nov 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Ten Predictions For the 2026 Kyushu Basho

I made predictions leading up to the July and September grand sumo tournaments. Before July’s Nagoya Basho I made picks for wrestlers who would notch 10 wins (I did so-so). For September’s Aki Bash...

Nov 06, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, November 6, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week, as we’ve (finally) brought the Hearts of Iron IV (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) series to a close. We may have rather more firesides and even some gap weeks in the next...

Nov 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Find Chemical Traces of Blood in a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur, but Not Blood Itself

When Brazilian paleontologists described a small meat-eating dinosaur in 2020, they took its name from Tupi, an Indigenous language of Brazil. Aratasaurus joins ara and atá, meaning “born” and “fir...

Nov 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

King Wamba

When the Third Council of Braga was held in 675 (a century after the Second), the Visigothic king at the time tried to influence it.Wamba, whose name means "big paunch," became king in 672. There w...

Nov 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

While the Maya built pyramids, builders in Nicaragua kept rebuilding 372 enigmatic mounds in white stone that form a planned pattern you can’t see from the ground

Three kilometres (about two miles) north of the town of Juigalpa, in the Chontales department of central Nicaragua, the hills are dotted with 372 mounds of earth and stone. The site is known as Agu...

Nov 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “King” Who Gave Rome Its Excuse to Invade Britain May Have Been a Woman, the Controversial Hypothesis of a British Archaeologist

The only ancient historian who explains why Rome invaded Britain points to a single exiled ruler. He gives the ruler’s name as “Bericus” and treats him as a man. Nearly two centuries after the even...