Posts tagged "history"

Apr 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Sicily, Part 1

While Charles of Anjou was consolidating his rule in Provence and Forcalquier between 1250 and 1252, events elsewhere were shaping up to be advantageous for him.Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II died...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Large Bronze Cauldrons from Late Antiquity Whose Contents Have Not Yet Been Identified, Found in Germany

In Schaalby, a small locality in northern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, a team of archaeologists and volunteers has brought to light a find of exceptional rarity for the region: a deposit composed...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Masks of Sanxingdui, the Culture That Disappeared More Than 2,000 Years Ago Beneath a Great Flood in China

Along the tranquil banks of the Yazi River, just 40 kilometers from bustling Chengdu, the earth concealed for more than three millennia the secret of a civilization that did not appear in the offic...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola

I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle of Coca Cola in almost two years. But thanks to a 2014 article in Food & Wine, I ...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Vertical vs Horizontal Tab Hot Takes

Manuel Moreale published a blog post on the vertical vs horizontal tabs debate. But instead of choosing a side in what is ultimately an inconsequential debate, he made the case for nuance, or askin...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-16-26

Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this because my longest NLJ article, clocking it at more than 18,000 words, is about Oth...

Apr 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Study Reveals Why Property Owners Planted Vineyards and Orchards Instead of Rebuilding After the Earthquake of 62 AD in Pompeii

Pompeii did not die suddenly. Before Vesuvius buried it in AD 79, the city had already survived another catastrophe: a devastating earthquake in AD 62 that toppled buildings, cracked streets, and l...

Apr 16, 2026 from Palladium

The Peoples of America

The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

Apr 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Rebels and Salt

The French word gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, which means "duty." It was a tax applied to agricultural and industrial items, such as bed sheets, wheat, spices, wine...and salt.The crusa...

Apr 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 350-square-meter megastructure discovered in Romania challenges theories about early egalitarian societies in Europe

Between 2020 and 2024, a team of researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Botoșani County Museum brought to light one of the most singular discoveries in re...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

Apr 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Suggest Gilgamesh May Have Really Existed, Researchers Say

More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tablets from the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, a team of research...

Apr 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Riviera of Salò, the small country in northern Italy that lasted nearly five centuries, until Napoleon put an end to it

With its 372 square kilometers of surface area, almost 52 kilometers long and just over 17 wide, Lake Garda, also called Lake Benaco, is the largest in Italy. It lies at the foot of the Alps, sprea...

Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History

I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting that Bam Adebayo is a modest scorer in the pantheon of NBA players who scored 6...

Apr 15, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reporting

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a collection of spreadsheets to a plain text accounting ledger and wrote programs to...

Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AI Can’t “Lie”

Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the ac...

Apr 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A triple bone comb of the Late Roman Germanic elite and a necklace of 156 Baltic amber beads from the Bronze Age, discovered in Germany

The construction of a new wind farm in the vicinity of the German hamlets of Ahlum and Dettum, a project promoted by the company SAB WindTeam GmbH that includes the installation of nineteen wind tu...

Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-15-26

We have a second consecutive warm day in New York City. We also have a third consecutive day of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Seven Myths About the Iran War (Michael Doran for Tablet Magazine. April 13, 2...

Apr 15, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Start of Charles' Reign

Some months after Charles of Anjou married Beatrice of Provence in 1246, therefore becoming Count of Provence and Forcalquier, he was knighted by his brother, King Louis IX, and formally given the ...

Apr 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hunter-gatherers 800,000 years ago selected their settlements according to how much wood they could obtain effortlessly for fire

A new analysis of charred plant remains recovered at the Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, located in what is now northern Israel, has demonstrated that the early humans who inhabited the sho...