Posts tagged "history"

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...

Apr 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Chronograph of 354 Is the First Illustrated Book in History and the Oldest to Fix Christmas and the Feast of Sol Invictus on the Same Day

Rome, 4th century. Emperor Constantius II rules an empire that is no longer that of Augustus. The old divinities of the Capitol lose followers every day while Christians multiply in the popular nei...

Apr 15, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The tomb of an Iron Age warrior in Italy contained a silver wire from the Iberian Peninsula and remains of a medicinal drink

The site of Bisenzio, located next to Lake Bolsena, about 90 kilometers northwest of Rome, has traditionally been considered a secondary center dependent on the major coastal Etruscan cities such a...

Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26

I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U...

Apr 14, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

README: A Bookish History of Computing (Review)

While the study of textbooks has proven fruitful in the study of the history of mathematics, there has been little attention to computing books and their role on the development of computer science...

Apr 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Introducing PDR Press Minis

Announcing an exciting new book series!

Apr 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The gold found on pirate Samuel Bellamy’s ship reveals the truth about the purity of African metal: science debunks centuries of accusations

For more than a thousand years, West African gold was one of the most coveted commodities in the world. It first fueled the trade routes that crossed the Sahara and, from the fifteenth century onwa...

Apr 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Securing Beatrice

The agreement was made in 1245 between several powerful individuals that Beatrice of Provence (heir to the counties of Provence and Forcalquier, pictured here) would marry Charles of Anjou. Part of...

Apr 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Large Megalithic Tombs in Neolithic Scotland Were Built to Safeguard the Paternal Line for Centuries

A team of archaeologists has succeeded in establishing the genetic relationships among individuals buried in chambered tombs from the Neolithic period in northern Scotland, specifically in Caithnes...

Apr 14, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Jiajing, the sadistic Chinese emperor who sought immortality and beat his concubines to death with rods

Jiajing, twelfth Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty, ascended the throne in an unusual way: by decision of the government, after his predecessor—and cousin—died without leaving descendants. He had...

Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Zespri RubyRed Kiwi

I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post featured four photos. The last of four photos shows slices of yellow-orange-red kik...

Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Bonbon Drop Stickers

Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card speculating which referenced “Bonbon Drop stickers.” Regarding the stickers, I wrote that I did not know what they wer...

Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Google Verbatim Mode Custom Search Shortcut

I read read a good article by Hana Lee Goldin at Card Catalog titled Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. In the post, she ran through several tips for using Google Search effe...

Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-13-26

There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Saturday because it was newsletter day (22 links in issue 275!). There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Sunday because I failed. But today is Monday. Monday is a fu...

Apr 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The first known dental filling made with gemstones in a molar by the Maya is discovered

A team of researchers from Guatemala and Mexico has documented an exceptional discovery in Maya dental archaeology: a lower left first molar that presents a greenish inlay, identified as jadeite or...