Posts tagged "history"

Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Markdown Editors and Fluff

Rodrigo Ghedin published a short “hot take” on markdown: “[I]f you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting.” I largely agree, although I personally use...

Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-01-26

I have not published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links since June 23. But today is the start of a new month. Let us turn over a new leaf in July with the Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Nina Totenberg Sincerely Apologiz...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Death of the Medici Brothers, Clearing Centuries of Speculation About Poisoning

In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, scion of the dynasty that dominated the politics and banking of Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, in 1587, his older b...

Jul 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Apostasy

"Apostasy" is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious (or political) belief. Yesterday's post on Canon 70 of the Fourth Lateran Council discussed the concern over Jews who converted to Chris...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals an Irish Site as One of the First Organized Urban Settlements of the Bronze Age in Western Europe

The research, published in the journal Antiquity, places Haughey’s Fort, near Armagh in Northern Ireland, as the hub of a meticulously ordered landscape where domestic life, craft production, and r...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Famous Michelangelo Sculpture May Be the Earliest Representation of a Disease, 327 Years Before It Was Officially Described

Can a 16th century work of art contain the diagnosis of a disease that would not be named until three centuries later? That is the fascinating question posed by a team of dermatologists and art his...

Jun 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)

Diagrams from a lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.

Jun 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 70

After the past few entries concerning the anti-Jewish Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, we come finally to Canon 70, dealing with Jews who convert to Christianity but might change their...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Surprising Similarity Between Iberian and Scandinavian Petroglyphs of Ships: Nordic Crews May Have Carved Them

A new archaeological analysis, led by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading, has revealed that the societies inhabiting Western Europe during the Bronze Age maintained a level ...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Thousand Years Ago Entire Decorative Panels of the Pyramid of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli in Tula Were Torn Off and Buried Alongside Six Sacrificed Children

Nearly a millennium ago, in the 12th century, the city of Tollan Xicocotitlan was far from its era of splendor, which occurred between the years 900 and 1100 AD. Nevertheless, numerous groups settl...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Coins Found in Romania Reveal That the Enigmatic King Moskon Was a Celtic Ruler of the Bastarnae in the 2nd Century BC

In the lands of present-day Northern Dobrudja, in Romania, south of the Danube Delta, small silver coins have been appearing for decades that bear the inscription basileus (king) and the name Mosko...

Jun 29, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review)

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the “plucky Brits ov...

Jun 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 69

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than ever to society.Canon 69 of the Fourth Lateran Council dec...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Complete Self-Sufficient Settlement from the Second Intermediate Period Discovered in the Eastern Nile Delta

The discovery, the result of excavation work carried out by the Egyptian archaeological team in this eastern delta site, offers an unprecedented overview of the social and economic organization of ...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The cosmological principle says that if we look far enough, the universe is the same in every direction: a disturbing finding suggests it is not

A team of astrophysicists has just published in Nature a finding that calls into question one of the pillars of modern cosmology. Using the most detailed map of the universe to date, they have dete...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Settlement of 52 Prehistoric Huts Discovered in Central Italy Next to a Roman Thermal Complex

Research, protection, and enhancement work in the archaeological area of Case Pente, in the municipality of Sulmona, has not ceased since March 2023, when the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine A...

Jun 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ctesibius, the Greek sage who invented a hydraulic musical organ, the most accurate clock in thirteen centuries, and a machine that could have changed the course of History

He started as a barber and went on to become one of the great inventors of Antiquity, directing the Museion of Alexandria and earning the honor of having a lunar crater named after him. He wrote nu...

Jun 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”

Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dut...

Jun 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Cal Newport on Big AI “Doom Trolling”

Cal Newport wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on big AI companies to stop “doom trolling” and published a short summary of his argument on his personal website. He specifically criticizes some o...

Jun 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 68

Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, we come to Canon 68, which wanted to make sure everyone knew who a Jew (or Muslim) was, so they c...