Posts tagged "history"

Apr 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The End of Richard

Richard of Cornwall, who occasionally rebelled against his brother, King Henry III of England, aided him against a rebellion not long after Richard became King of the Romans.Simon de Montfort, the ...

Apr 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Leonardo da Vinci Captured in the Mona Lisa the Symptoms of a Disease Not Described Until Three Centuries Later

In 1506, Leonardo da Vinci finished his most famous painting: the portrait of Madonna Lisa Maria de Gherardini, known to all as the Mona Lisa. The woman, born in Florence in 1479, died at the age o...

Apr 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Largest Island Within a Lake in the World Is So Big That It Contains Over 100 Lakes

In Lake Huron, one of the five Great Lakes of North America, there is an island so vast that it contains within it more than a hundred of its own lakes, some of which in turn host small islands. Th...

Apr 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Schrödinger’s Ayatollah and Umineko: When They Cry

I read a cleverly-titled article by Amit Segal titled Schrödinger’s Ayatollah: Is Mojtaba Dead or Alive? The article examines the life status, or lack thereof, of Iran’s purported Supreme Leader, M...

Apr 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

King of the Romans

Richard of Cornwall was only two years younger than his brother Henry, who became King of England. He rebelled against Henry a few times, using his wealth from Cornwall and Poitou to try to become ...

Apr 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Over 100 Game Boards Discovered Carved in the Ruins of the Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya

The ruins of Ptolemais, one of the largest Greek cities of antiquity, hide within their crumbling walls a unique archaeological phenomenon: hundreds of grids carved into stone formed by small circu...

Apr 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Ancient Roman 1,000-Liter Vessels Found in Ostia Contained Fish Sauce and Were Repaired with Lead, Silver, and Tin

In the ruins of what was once the port city of ancient Rome, a team of researchers has managed to extract for the first time scientific evidence about the actual use of enormous ceramic containers ...

Apr 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Bronze Cup Found in central Spain was Made in Northern Britannia and Names the Forts of Hadrian’s Wall

A farmer from Berlanga de Duero, a small town in the province of Soria (Castile and León), found fragments of a small enameled bronze bowl a few months ago while working his land. What seemed to be...

Apr 25, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part II: The African Backbone

This is the second part (I) of our series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. As we discussed last time, while Carthage has an unfair reputation for being an ‘un-military’ society, i...

Apr 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-24-26

I am a bit late today because I had a rush assignment to take care of. But now that it has been taken care of, I present for your enjoyment today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links (note that “we” wil...

Apr 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Exceptional Roman Calibration Plate Found in the Czech Republic Used in the Manufacture of Chainmail for Legionaries

The team of specialists from the Olomouc Archaeological Center has completed rescue work on a 1.2-kilometer section of the future high-speed line between Nezamyslice and Kojetín, within the Brno–Př...

Apr 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Selling Sicily

Pope Urban IV's first move to try to curtail Manfred of Sicily's imperial ambitions was to excommunicate him. This was Manfred's third excommunication, and clearly he was not bothered.Manfred had m...

Apr 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Richard of Cornwall

When King John of England died in 1216, his eldest child, Henry, was barely nine years old. He would become Henry III. There were several other children, even younger, one of whom was Richard of Co...

Apr 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Parasite Once Believed to Originate in the Americas Discovered in Roman Chamber Pots from the Ancient Province of Moesia Inferior

An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the health and sanitation conditions of the inhabitants of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior (modern Bulgaria) by analyzing somet...

Apr 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Roman Ship from the Republican Era Sunk 2,200 Years Ago Reveals the History and Locations of Its Repairs in the Adriatic

The study of organic waterproofing materials used in historical shipbuilding has received little attention from archaeology, even though they are essential to ensure the seaworthiness of any vessel...

Apr 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archytas of Tarentum, the Greek Sage Who Believed in an Infinite Universe and Invented the First Self-Propelled Flying Device

Who hasn’t heard the sarcastic expression “It’s simpler than a rattle mechanism”? Well, simplicity is not a quality at odds with genius, and Aristotle attributes the invention of that toy to a Gree...

Apr 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Bad IP Watch

I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit alarmed since I had rec...

Apr 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-23-26

Delayed by work, but not denied, The drags on, Pook-Emu Bee links for April 23, 2026. 1. Hochul’s Fast-Track Booze Permit Sets Stage for World Cup Street Parties Across New York (Reid Carlisle for ...

Apr 23, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

TimesSquare Programming Puzzle - Part 1?

TimesSquare is a programming puzzle created by Dennis Shasha and published in the April 2026 issue of Communications of the ACM. The puzzle requires deriving missing digit values within a square ma...

Apr 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4th-Century BCE Alcoholic Beverage in a Qin Dynasty Tomb

A team of researchers has successfully identified the composition and production process of an alcoholic beverage from approximately 2,300 years ago, found in perfect preservation inside a bronze b...