Posts tagged "history"

Apr 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Sicily, Part 2

Events were in place for Charles of Anjou, Count of Provence, to take over Sicily. His brother, King Louis IX of France, was behind him, as was Pope Urban IV. Charles' promise to Urban was that he ...

Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Victor V. Gurbo Podcast Interview

My good friend Victor V. Gurbo (who has written some articles for NLJ) was interviewed by Charles Zona for an episode of Seeing Them Live With Charles Zona. I read the interview transcript, but you...

Apr 17, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week; next week we’ll be back to seperating out the components of Carthaginian armies, looking at the real backbone of those armies, which are Carthage’s North African subj...

Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-17-26

Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday’s links come in the Newsletter Leaf Journal). 1. Gemini adds personalized AI image generation ...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Millennia-old fortifications, a bronze solar disc, and enigmatic decorated clay plaques discovered in the mountains of southern Georgia

For centuries, the Javakheti Plateau, in the highlands of southern Georgia, has remained one of the least archaeologically explored regions of the South Caucasus. This situation has begun to change...

Apr 17, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Historians Reveal the Illuminati Didn’t Vanish in 1785—They Survived in Hiding in Thuringia

On the upcoming May 1, exactly 250 years will mark the founding of the Illuminati, the Order of the Illuminated, a secret society that, despite its very brief historical existence of barely a littl...

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...