Posts tagged "history"

Oct 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An image of Rome’s most solemn sacrifice, an altar dedicated by an Augustan Sevir, and a buried lightning bolt, found in the city of Juvenal

An ox, a ram and a pig, surrounded by garlands, festoons and carved ox skulls, share a single block of stone. At some point in antiquity it ended up as paving at one of the main crossroads of Aquin...

Oct 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill...

Oct 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Trajan Died in a Small Cilician Port in AD 117 — Archaeologists Are Now Mapping What’s Left

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Mazdak and Kavad

During the reign of the Sassanian dynasty's Emperor Kavad I (r. 488–531), Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion. An Iranian priest named Mazdak started preaching a different version that came to...

Oct 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Old Oxen on the Table, Horse and Turtle at Feasts: 5,000 Bones From an Ancient Rubbish Heap Reveal the Menu of an Iron Age Elite in Spain

More than 5,000 animal bones from the rubbish heaps of a neighborhood in Salamanca, Spain, show how a wealthy extended family ate some 2,600 years ago. According to a study, young animals, horses a...

Oct 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpo...

Oct 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Shine With No Stars at All — The Milky Way Began as a Swarm of Thousands of Tiny Galaxies

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of thousands of smaller galaxies. Some were turning out stars at a frantic ...

Oct 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Disagree by 100,000 Years on When Humans Reached the Americas — Genetics Is Narrowing It Down to the Freezing Depths of the Last Ice Age

Proposed dates for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas span more than 100,000 years. At one end sits Cerutti, a site in California that Holen and colleagues dated to about 130,000 years...

Oct 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Iranian Religious Tolerance

If the Iranian Empire under the Sassanian Emperor Khosrow I (531 - 579) had an official religion, it would be Zoroastrianism. In fact, Khosrow's older brother was deemed unsuitable to succeed their...

Oct 03, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Enron Scandal

United States · 1997–2001 · Fraud — Enron executives concealed billions in debt and fabricated profits through off-balance sheet partnerships before the company collapsed into historic bankruptcy.

Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New NLJ Article: 86 Days Until Christmas

On October 1, 2026, I (being N.A. Ferrell) published a new article on The New Leaf Journal titled 86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens. On September 29, I had come across an inflatable ...

Oct 02, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics

This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popular hist...

Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-02-26

October begins two-for-two with Pook-Emu Bee Links before our regularly scheduled Saturday off-day for the Newsletter Leaf Journal. I think they’re hoping you get the hint 1 | Japan announces new p...

Oct 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Khosrow the Philosopher King

Although the youngest of four sons and not truly expected to ever become king, Khosrow I (531 - 579) received an extensive education in his youth. Once he became king, he cared deeply about advanci...

Oct 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Rome Gave Up Its German Frontier in the 3rd Century. New Finds Suggest Someone Kept Using the Site

A few inches below the forest floor in the eastern Taunus hills lies a stretch of the Roman frontier that has barely been examined. The Kapersburg fort, near Rosbach vor der Höhe in Hesse, is one o...

Oct 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A King Buried Under Four Swords: How Mycenaean Greece Turned Its Dead into Gold Sculptures

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The flo...

Oct 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Blind King Who Rode Into the Battle of Crécy Tied to His Knights – and the Legend That Gave the Prince of Wales His Feathers

On 26 August 1346, English and French armies met at one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years’ War: Crécy. Edward III’s English army crushed the French army of Philip VI. The defeat wa...

Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

A Townhouse For Sale in Brooklyn Heights

I came across an article about a “fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse” available for the low price of $12.75 million. It looks nice. But the artcile does leave out some potentially impo...

Oct 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France r...

Oct 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-01-26

Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever will I do? 1 | Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of...