Posts tagged "history"

Apr 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles & Beatrice of Savoy

Charles of Anjou became Count of Provence and Forcalquier by his marriage in 1246 to Beatrice of Provence. His attempt to rule them was challenged by his mother-in-law, Beatrice of Savoy.Beatrice o...

Apr 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The disappearance of a colossal amount of ancient lead makes Earth appear much younger than primordial meteorites indicate

For decades, geochemists have used the different varieties of lead as a kind of infallible geological clock to date the formation of rocks and understand the processes of planetary accretion that s...

Apr 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Birdsong Gave Rise to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Phonetic Signs Emerged as Imitations of Animal Sounds

In an era where voice messages and ephemeral videos compete for attention, writing has remained, for millennia, the fundamental support of cultural memory. It stores knowledge, tells stories, and t...

Apr 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The spectacular camouflage of a Vietnamese spider: it takes the shape of a dry leaf during the day and eats its own web

In the jungles of Vietnam there exists a creature that seems designed by a Hollywood special effects artist. It is not an alien or a laboratory experiment. It is a spider. It is called Poltys mouho...

Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Asian Carp and Gefilte Fish

I have read about the invasive Asian carp problem in U.S. waterways. But I learned something new from Dan Lewis’ aptly named “Now I Know” blog: Asian carp is commonly used in gefilte fish. I must c...

Apr 12, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles of Anjou

King Louis VIII of France (1187 - 1226) and Blanch of Castile (1188 - 1252) had several children, one of whom became the next king of France, but their youngest son, Charles (1226 - 1285), had to f...

Apr 12, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How a Giraffe with Which Lorenzo de’ Medici Wanted to Emulate Julius Caesar Ended Up Saving the Family

It is almost certain that no reader will know what animal a camelopard is. Strictly speaking, none; but if we say it in Latin, it is the scientific name of a species: Giraffa camelopardalis, which ...

Apr 11, 2026 from Palladium

The Dostoevskian Moment

As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. The post The Dostoevskian Moment appeared first on Palladium.

Apr 11, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles' Jerusalem

After Maria of Antioch "sold" her claim to Queen of Jerusalem to Charles of Anjou, however illegal it was to the High Court of Jerusalem, he intended to take it over. Charles might have been embold...

Apr 10, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians

This is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfair!) reputation for being a country of “peaceful merchants who tended to avoid wa...

Apr 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26

My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hidden patterns discovered in the construction of hundreds of megalithic monuments on the northern border between Spain and Portugal

High in the mountains that separate northern Portugal and Galicia, dozens of stone mounds have stood silently over the landscape for more than 6,000 years. They are the remains of one of the highes...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Paleolithic Humans Began to Miniaturize Their Stone Tools When Giant Animals Disappeared

Approximately 300,000 years ago, humans living in what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria began to stop making a type of stone tools they had used for more than a million years. T...

Apr 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Maria's Claim

Maria of Antioch had a stronger claim to the throne of Jerusalem in 1268 than the man who was crowned.Born c.1220, she was a granddaughter of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. After the death of Conra...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Columned Building in Guatemala Reveals the Moment When the Maya Began to Share Power

Deep in the jungles of Petén, Guatemala, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the remains of a building that changes what we thought we knew about how the ancient Maya governed themselves. It is ...

Apr 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Remains of the Temple of the god Pelusius discovered in the ancient city of Pelusium in Egypt: a massive structure with canals connected to the Nile

After six years of archaeological excavation work at the Tell el-Farama site, located in the ancient city of Pelusium in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptian archaeological mission under ...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues

Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want. This is a flawed headline. It presupposes that the main r...

Apr 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists find and document the hydraulic system that supplied water for a thousand years to the ancient Greek city of Amphipolis

The bilateral collaboration between the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres, known as EAA/MYA (Study of the Aqueduc...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26

I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu Touch-powered Google Pixel 3a XL. I think I fixed the issue. With that aside, on ...

Apr 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.