Posts tagged "history"

Jul 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions

On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been...

Jul 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

John Northampton

John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). He became a cloth merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, fou...

Jul 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Large Fresco of Dionysus and Ariadne Discovered and Restored on the Ceiling of the “Casa con Pacificio” in Pompeii

The presentation of the project took place in the Palestra Grande of the Excavations, at the end of the International Workshop Pompeii: Excavations and Ongoing Research, held in the Park Auditorium...

Jul 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off

The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš...

Jul 25, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 3

When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, the Mayor of London and the Aldermen were to meet at the Church of St. Peter in C...

Jul 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page

I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say ...

Jul 24, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IVb: Cohesion

This is the second half of the fourth part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. Last we...

Jul 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15

I haven’t watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I s...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

1,000 Years Ago There Were Tens of Thousands of Languages in the World, Today Only 7,500 Remain: This Is What Happened

Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages. However, this figure, impressive as it may seem, represents only a snapshot of a constantly changing history, and questi...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Elevated Roads That Seem to Lead Nowhere Found in an Iron Age Fort in Western England

A team of archaeologists and students from the University of Birmingham has begun the first excavation work at the site known as Wall Camp, an Iron Age fort located on the Shropshire plain in weste...

Jul 24, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 2

Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He had a ship docked at Queenshithe filled with salted herring. He was a wholesaler, ...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Mystery of the Baboon and the Ibis: Moonlight Reveals Why the Ancient Egyptians Deified Two Such Different Animals

A study published in the journal Time and Mind has brought back to the scientific forefront a question that for decades has puzzled Egyptologists and primatologists: why the god Thoth, one of the m...

Jul 24, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Moskstraumen, the Norwegian whirlpool that looks so much like Charybdis from the Odyssey that some theories say they are the same

Between the islands of Moskenesøya and Mosken, in the Norwegian archipelago of the Lofoten, the waters do something that happens nowhere else in the world in quite the same way: they twist in the o...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Thrace’s First Farmers: The Settlement of Paradimi Is Older Than Previously Believed and Had a Double Defensive System

The mound of Paradimi, located about six kilometers southwest of the city of Komotini on the plain of Greek Thrace, has been the focus of an ambitious investigation that has transformed what was kn...

Jul 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Criminal Cases, Part 1

We've talked about death and destruction in war, and all sorts of dangerous and aggressive behavior that is not seen in modern day-to-day life. Law courts in the modern era are packed with daily tr...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two Possible Ancient Dams Discovered in Egypt Near the Red Pyramid of Dahshur That May Have Been Used for Its Construction

French and Egyptian researchers have presented the first solid evidence that two huge linear structures located southwest of the Red Pyramid, on the Dahshur plateau (Egypt), were not ramps for drag...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Two babies were buried in an ancient Roman latrine at the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus in the 8th century, centuries after the building’s abandonment

The discovery occurred in the least expected place. During excavations at the Odeon of Ephesus, a building dedicated to musical and poetic performances built in the 1st century AD, archaeologists l...

Jul 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Findings at the Iberian Site of the Assut de Tivenys Point to an Origin Prior to the 3rd Century BC and Reveal a Seal and a Fibula of Sertorian Soldiers

The excavations carried out this summer at the Iberian settlement of L’Assut, located in a strategic spot along the course of the Ebro River as it passes through the municipality of Tivenys (Baix E...

Jul 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?

I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was “they were never cool.” But I read on to see his perspective. ...

Jul 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test

I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other “minimalist” phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my “ideal” phone concept (creative concept photography included), I a...