Posts tagged "history"

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

March 2026 Review (NLJ Link)

Over on The New Leaf Journal, I published my review of the month that was on NLJ, this humble publication, our newsletter, and my Pixelfed account. In the article, I shared our top-24 most-visited ...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2)

I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionab...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Touching the Gowanus Canal?

I recently came across Clive Thompson’s Linkfest newsletter (hosted on Buttondown just like my own Newsletter Leaf Journal). Each issue consists of links he collected from around the web with comme...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-06-26

The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after taking two days off for Newsletter Leaf Journal Saturday and Easter. 1. E-Bikes ...

Apr 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

During the 2024 excavation campaign at Küllüoba Höyük, an archaeological mound located west of the Turkish province of Eskişehir, researchers encountered something unusual. Beneath a half-meter lay...

Apr 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Oldest Relatives of Humans and Fish — and a Dune Sandworm: Fossils Found in China Reveal Complex Life Before the Cambrian

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens that force a rewriting of the opening chapters in the history of complex ...

Apr 06, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Aimery versus Ralph

The King of Jerusalem, Aimery of Lusignan, had a problem with his seneschal, Ralph of Saint-Omer: he accused the seneschal (who had hopes of becoming King of Jerusalem before the election went to A...

Apr 06, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

When the Legions Entered Rome for the First Time, Setting a Precedent That Would Not Stop

Anyone who has seen Spartacus, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1960 starring Kirk Douglas, may remember a scene in which Crassus and Julius Caesar discuss the possibility of the former esta...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

High Ad Block Usage in Indonesia

I came across an article on Backlinko featuring statistics about worldwide ad blocker usage. Different surveys noted in the article have wildly different results. But the first survey discussed, co...

Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Mailed: Newsletter Leaf Journal 274

I mailed issue 274 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal yesterday. Fun fact: I originally mailed the newsletter on Sundays. One reason I switched to Saturday was to avoid Sunday holidays, notably Easter....

Apr 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Next King of Jerusalem

With the unexpected death of Henry II of Champagne by falling out a window, Jerusalem's Queen Isabella (the real ruler) needed a new husband to help lead the kingdom. The Prince of Galilee and Tibe...

Apr 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The attack that changed the history of the Vascones: evidence of a Roman Republic battle found at the oppidum of Irulegi

A study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology has just revealed the secrets of a war episode that remained hidden for more than two millennia. Researchers from the University of the Basque...

Apr 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Researchers discover in northern China an ancient human lineage previously unknown that dates back to the end of the last glaciation

The Donghulin site, on the northern China plain, is one of the few places that documents the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to the first agricultural communities. There, archaeologists h...

Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

U.S. Special Operations Forces Rescue Air Force Officer

We welcome Easter with the remarkable news that U.S. Special Operations forces successfully extracted the second airman (a Colonel, according to President Trump) who had been shot down over Iran on...

Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn (NLJ Link)

We are just about one hour away (EST) from Easter Sunday (as I write this). For a pre-Easter article, I shared a photo I took of an inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront ...

Apr 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses

I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City’s ...

Apr 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Aimery and Henry

So we have Henry II of Champagne, elevated to the position of King of Jerusalem even if he doesn't use the title, and Aimery of Lusignan, who King of Cyprus after he needed to flee the mainland whe...

Apr 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The maritime villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Cicero’s son-in-law, discovered on land confiscated from the Camorra in Baiae

The municipality of Bacoli, located about twenty kilometers from the center of Naples, has restored to public visibility a monumental villa from the Roman period originally built more than two thou...

Apr 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Capcom: DRM-free on GOG, DRM’d on Steam

On March 28, 2022, I published On DRM-Free Games on Steam, wherein I examined the status of DRM on Steam, shared resources for identifying DRM-free games on the platform, and offered my unsolicited...

Apr 03, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral

This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which it turns out is surprisingly tricky for us to confidently reconstruct, in part be...