Posts tagged "history"

May 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn's Daughter, Estrid

Estrid Svensdatter, daughter of Sweyn Forkbeard and sister of Cnut, was born c.990s and lived at last until after 1057. We do not know about her early life, and there is a great deal of speculation...

May 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Are We Overlooking Signs of Extraterrestrial Life? A Study Warns of “False Negatives” in Biosignature Detection

The possibility that there are signs of biological activity beyond Earth, and that these signs have been systematically ignored or misinterpreted by current instruments, has been analyzed by an int...

May 29, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: May 29, 2026

Hey folks! I had a few other projects that I really needed to get finished this week, which left me with limited time to put a blog post together. My plan for next week is something for the worldbu...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-29-26

Today is Friday, May 29, 2026. Because it is a day ending in -day that is not Saturday, it is time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. There will be no Pook-Emu Bee tomorrow, but you will find even m...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of a Roman Bridge from the Year 363 AD Discovered in the Bed of the Meuse River in the Netherlands

A sand extraction operation in the channel of the Meuse River, near the municipality of West Maas en Waal, in the center of the Netherlands, has brought to light four long oak posts whose character...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 5th-Century BC Ship with Over Three Hundred Amphorae Found on the Seafloor of the Ionian Sea in Calabria

Archaeologists located a sunken wreck in the waters of the Ionian Sea, dated between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, off the coast of Monasterace, a municipality in the province of Reggio Calabria. T...

May 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Sweyn Invades

It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard to invade England. The St. Brice's Day Massacre is said to ha...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Flash in the Sky Reveals a Possible Object That Passed for an Hour Between Our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud

During five nights in December 2019, a group of researchers used the DECam camera, installed on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo (Chile), to observe a specific field of the Large Magell...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers Discover the Teutonic Knights Built Feldioara Fortress in the 13th Century to Create Their Own Independent State

For decades, historians had suspected that the Feldioara Fortress, also known as Marienburg, was the seat of the Teutonic Knights in Transylvania during their brief presence in the region between 1...

May 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A fossil found in Canada solves the paleontological enigma of the “Furongian gap,” a 12-million-year period with no fossils

An international study published in BMC Biology provides new clues to solve one of the most persistent paleontological enigmas of the Paleozoic: the so-called Furongian gap, a time interval roughly...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Video: A Defense of Visual Novels

I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been colle...

May 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Disabling AI in WordPress 7.0

This site is (as of the publication of this post) on WordPress 7.0. I became aware that WordPress added some AI features through articles and blog posts instead of the WordPress admin area. The fac...

May 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26

I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripp...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Marine Animal Defies the Limits of Immortality: A Fragment of Its Amputated Body Survives for Three Years in Seawater

From the reanimated corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the detached hand known as Thing in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. This archetyp...

May 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Oxford Massacre

One site of the St. Brice's Day Massacre in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just extermination" of Danes, because of the rumor that they intended to kil...

May 28, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary

In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Roman Empire Gave Gold Jewelry to Barbarian Chiefs for Centuries, and That Explains One of the Greatest Mysteries of European History

When the barbarians entered the Roman Empire in the 5th century and founded their own kingdoms, something strange happened: they destroyed nothing. Palaces, churches, taxes, coins, Latin, and Greek...

May 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Stone Age humans were already sleeping on beds prepared with grass over ashes more than 200,000 years ago

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa have published an analysis of plant-material beds used by Middle Stone Age humans in Border Cave, located on the border between ...

May 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-27-26

I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal six...

May 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Marine Fossils in Madrid Found in the Sierra Norte: The Area Was Under the Sea Before the Supercontinent Pangaea

A team of researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has identified in the Sierra Norte of the Community of Madrid the remains of t...