Posts tagged "history"

Apr 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Ethiopian calendar, which is still in use today, has thirteen months, begins in September, and right now it is 2018

There are many people, especially those who have underage children, who follow the school calendar rather than the regular one, and for them in many European countries, the year begins with the sta...

Apr 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Development of the Anglerfish Lure

I am a long-time admirer of the anglerfish, one of the ocean’s most aesthetic creatures. The University of Kansas news service published a news release about an open access study vt Alex J. Maile a...

Apr 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Second Best NBA Team of the 2000s

User Matt15 posed a question on the RealGM Basketball Player Comparisons board: What was the second best NBA team of the 2000s (2000-01 through 2009-10) after the 2000-01 Los Angeles Lakers. I’ll b...

Apr 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The German Fossil That Baffled Scientists for Decades Was Not a Neanderthal–Modern Human Hybrid

For almost half a century, a fragment of a human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of Hahnöfersand, has been at the center of an intense scientific debate. Discovered...

Apr 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-20-26

I present for your reading enjoyment our daily selection of Pook-Emu Bee links for Monday, April 20, 2026. 1. AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns (Mag...

Apr 20, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Sicily, Part 3

We left off with Manfred of Sicily killed during battle (illustration) with the forces of Charles of Anjou in 1265. Charles had been named king of Sicily in Rome, but he had to conquer the Regno in...

Apr 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

For decades, the hill of Begića Glavica remained silent. Neither archaeologists nor Bosnian heritage maps registered it as a place of interest. Its modest rise above the Lašva river valley, in the ...

Apr 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

In an Anglo-Saxon Tomb from 1,400 Years Ago, an Older Sister “Looks After” Her Younger Brother, Both Dead from a Contagious Disease

The advancement of ancient genetics has solved an archaeological mystery of decades: the double burial discovered in Cherington, Gloucestershire, during a Time Team intervention and the Operation N...

Apr 20, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

More than 1,300 posts at 5 meters deep reveal that a storm and floods destroyed a Neolithic village on the shores of Lake Biel 5,860 years ago

Excavations for the construction of the new campus of the University of Applied Sciences of Bern in the town of Biel have brought to light the remains of a Stone Age settlement that had a brief exi...

Apr 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Installing Android and Linux on Switch

I had seen on the LineageOS website that the LineageOS project supports a couple of different Nintendo Switch models. While I have run LineageOS on phones and tablets, I will stick to Nintendo’s st...

Apr 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-19-26

Pook-Emu Bee was off yesterday because it was Newsletter day. But the newsletter is out, and Pook-Emu Bee links are back. 1. FDNY changes policy after clout-chasing models turn NYC fire station int...

Apr 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Mummies Buried with Golden Tongues and a Strange Papyrus with the “Catalog of Ships” from the Iliad Discovered in Oxyrhynchus

The Spanish archaeological team linked to the University of Barcelona and the Institute of the Ancient Near East, under the direction of Doctors Maite Mascort and Esther Pons Mellado, has concluded...

Apr 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Muslims of Lucera

When Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was King of Sicily, he also ruled over a large area that included most of Italy south of Rome. This combined territory was called the Regno. Besides Italians, t...

Apr 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Draco, the unique whistling standard of the Sarmatians in the shape of a dragon, later adopted by the Romans for their cohorts

The aquila (eagle) was the most important of the Roman army’s signa militaria; it was a symbol of Zeus and, therefore, each legion had one as its unique insignia since Gaius Marius eliminated those...

Apr 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Sicily, Part 2

Events were in place for Charles of Anjou, Count of Provence, to take over Sicily. His brother, King Louis IX of France, was behind him, as was Pope Urban IV. Charles' promise to Urban was that he ...

Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Victor V. Gurbo Podcast Interview

My good friend Victor V. Gurbo (who has written some articles for NLJ) was interviewed by Charles Zona for an episode of Seeing Them Live With Charles Zona. I read the interview transcript, but you...

Apr 17, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week; next week we’ll be back to seperating out the components of Carthaginian armies, looking at the real backbone of those armies, which are Carthage’s North African subj...

Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-17-26

Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday’s links come in the Newsletter Leaf Journal). 1. Gemini adds personalized AI image generation ...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Millennia-old fortifications, a bronze solar disc, and enigmatic decorated clay plaques discovered in the mountains of southern Georgia

For centuries, the Javakheti Plateau, in the highlands of southern Georgia, has remained one of the least archaeologically explored regions of the South Caucasus. This situation has begun to change...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Historians Reveal the Illuminati Didn’t Vanish in 1785—They Survived in Hiding in Thuringia

On the upcoming May 1, exactly 250 years will mark the founding of the Illuminati, the Order of the Illuminated, a secret society that, despite its very brief historical existence of barely a littl...