Posts tagged "history"

Nov 03, 2026 from Daily Medieval

On False Gods

Now that we understand Euhemerism we can look at Ælfric of Eynsham's example of it in his essay De falsis deis ("On false gods"). A handful of manuscripts survive, at least one of which is a transl...

Nov 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

60,000 Years Ago, Neanderthals Already Arranged Their Camps Like We Do

If you have ever stayed in a mountain hut, you know the layout. The bunks run along the wall, and the table and stove sit in the middle. Nobody votes on it, because the space more or less dictates ...

Nov 03, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Failed Coup of Cylon That Cursed an Athenian Dynasty for Generations and Helped Trigger the Peloponnesian War

Around 2,600 years ago, someone laid 79 men side by side in a pit on the coast south of Athens. Many of them still wore iron shackles. Archaeologists found the grave in 2016 in the cemetery of Phal...

Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tamawashi is an Anime Voice Actor

Yesterday, I wrote about how Tamawashi became the oldest sumo wrestler (41, turning 42 on November 16) to make his return to the top division (see my post). While looking for links to include in my...

Nov 02, 2026 from Palladium

Do Not Tread Lightly

Our society avoids confronting the reality of death, and reflection on life, by mandating forgetting of those that pass away through the rapid and ever less ceremonial disposal of their bodies. The...

Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-02-26

My Pook-Emu Bee link backlog is growing with my continued failure to publish daily link collections. It is time to turn the tide. Hardware in Sam Altman’s World 1 | OpenAI CEO says it’s ‘quite terr...

Nov 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tried Over His Wife’s Death, a Roman Tycoon Kept Two Colossal Trojan War Statues in His Garden — They Could Be Proof of His Guilt

In 1806, the British traveler William Martin Leake was exploring Arcadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, convinced he had found the ruins of the ancient city of Thyrea. He was mistaken. Bu...

Nov 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Euhemerism

I said yesterday that I was going to talk about the writings of Ælfric of Eynsham, and I will, but I want to explain the term Euhemerism first. Euhemerism is an an attempt to shed light on mytholog...

Nov 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Beach Pebbles at a Minoan-Style Shrine on Theseus and Ariadne’s Island May Point to Ancient Sailors

Some 3,500 years ago, someone climbed a hill on Naxos carrying a handful of pebbles from the beach and left them on the floor of a shrine. Over the generations, many others did the same. Archaeolog...

Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Tamawashi (41) Becomes Oldest Sumo Wrestler to Return to Top Division

Tamwashi began the year as the oldest sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division at 41. Unfortunately, his records of 5-10 in January and March and 2-13 in May saw him tumble from his M5e rank to s...

Nov 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

If I had to rewatch a TV anime 10 times in a row…

I came across the following writing prompt on the Umai Yomu Anime Blog: “If you HAD to rewatch an anime 10 times in a row, which anime would you choose? .” I ordinarily do not like these kinds of q...

Nov 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Africa Has More Catholics than Europe

EWTN, citing to statistics compiled by Agenzia Fides, reports that Africa now has a larger Catholic population than Europe (288.3 million to 287.2 million). I would have guessed that was the case b...

Nov 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Ælfric of Eynsham

The oldest sample in writing of Old Dutch happens to be scrawled in the margin of a manuscript stored in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The manuscript in which it sits is a copy of the Homilies of...

Nov 01, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Bre-X Gold Scandal

Indonesia · 1993–1997 · Fraud — Geologists artificially enriched drill core samples with river gold at Indonesia's Busang deposit, fueling a massive stock market fraud before an audit exposed the t...

Nov 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning New Things About Ren’Py (Screenshots)

I have reviewed many visual novels written in Ren’Py (I also published a visual novel that I wrote in Ren’Py). I want to reassure everyone that it had totally occurred to be before I published my O...

Oct 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Bodleian: Hebban olla vogala

"Hebban olla vogala" is not the name of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford. It is part of a single line scribbled in the margin of a larger manuscript. In 1933, Kenneth Sisam, professor...

Oct 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Webmaster PSA: RSSingBot

I encourage people to follow this site and The New Leaf Journal via feed. But while I welcome feed readers, I do not welcome bots and scrapers that fetch my feeds for the purpose of effectively re-...

Oct 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Open a Sealed Roman Child’s Sarcophagus in Romania, and the Toys Were Still Inside

It all began on 22 October 2026. That day, archaeologists Constantin Băjenaru and Cătălin Nopcea, of the Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie Constanța (the National History and Archaeology Mu...

Oct 30, 2026 from Palladium

The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon

A market divided between premium U.S. models and cheap, open-weight Chinese AI could deny the U.S. one of its best tools for economic coercion. The post The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon appea...

Oct 30, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVb: Iron Ends

This is the back half of the last part (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa) of our series looking at the vision of history advanced by Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game a...