Posts tagged "history"

Mar 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

“What if the [AI] bubble bursts?”

I had wondered before what would happen if the AI bubble bursts, or if the current AI-obsessive moment passes. In my mind, I assumed that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic would be in particular ...

Mar 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 7

Richard I of England was now the leader of the Crusader force, and it was his responsibility to manage the final terms of surrender of the city of Acre. The Muslim garrison had been incarcerated, a...

Mar 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Did Bronze Age Menorcans Avoid Seafood Despite Living on an Island? A Study Reveals the Paradox

An international study led by the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the University of Granada has revealed what the diet of the communities that lived in Menorca during the Bronze Age and the Ir...

Mar 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-28-26

There was no Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday because it was newsletter day. But I am back early this Sunday morning (before I go to bed) with the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee for the new week. 1....

Mar 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Archaeologists Discover That Structures Buried at 14 Meters Depth Exist in the Ancient Egyptian City of Buto in the Northwestern Nile Delta

A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geophysicists has managed to detect buried structures from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (Saite Period) at the site of Tell el-Fara’in, the ancient Buto, i...

Mar 28, 2026 from Palladium

How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled

Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiative by bombarding Kurdish forces along its western border. The post How the Kurdis...

Mar 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 6

With Philip of France and Richard of England at Acre with their armies (the illustration shows Philip arriving in Palestine), Saladin had reason to be concerned. The Crusaders now had fresh reinfor...

Mar 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A warrior of the steppes in 5th-century Hispania: the first representation of an Alan horseman in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire

A team of archaeologists and historians has proposed a new reading of an enigmatic slate found in Salamanca that could change the understanding of the presence of nomadic peoples in the Iberian Pen...

Mar 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AI Editing vs Editing AI

I came across Ben Werdmuller’s March 27 notable links of the week through Minifeed. One part of his commentary on an NBC article titled AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, stud...

Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Improve the RSS experience of your blog readers

Jatan, writing on his Journal J blog, offers good advice for webmasters who want to promote feed subscriptions for their projects. Having tried to pitch people on feeds in real life, I concur entir...

Mar 27, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week, March 27, 2026 (Society for Military History Annual Meeting)

Hey folks! Another gap week because, as mentioned last week, I am at the annual meeting for the Society for Military History happening in Arlington. That said, we actually did have a major post thi...

Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-27-26

I am publishing today’s Pook-Emu Bee links a bit later than I had hoped due to having had a little bit more work on my recent assignment, but I now complete a second perfect week before our Saturda...

Mar 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 5

So Conrad of Montferrat married Isabella of Jerusalem,. the rightful queen, and took her back to Tyre while the former king by marriage to Isabella's older sister Sibylla, Guy of Lusignan, refused ...

Mar 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists sequence the genome of a 110,000-year-old Neanderthal and discover that he lived in the same cave as another Neanderthal 10,000 years earlier

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, has succeeded in sequencing the high-quality genome of a Neanderthal who l...

Mar 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The coin buried in 1584 during the founding of Rey Don Felipe in the Strait of Magellan, the city whose colonists died of starvation, has been found

In the locality of Puerto del Hambre, in the Strait of Magellan, a team of archaeologists has recovered a silver eight-reales coin minted in the 16th century that does not constitute an object of o...

Mar 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Greek Tale of Rhodope Is the Oldest Known Version of Cinderella

Even someone who has not read the tales of Basile, Perrault, or the Brothers Grimm will know that of Cinderella, whether through the many films, through its musical adaptations (the operas by Rossi...

Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Seadra Pokémon Cosplay Photography

I am writing an article about Marginalia Search. I wanted to check something on the search results page. Since Marginalia is good at turning up small web and vintage websites and articles, I decide...

Mar 26, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Fibonacci's Composed Fractions

Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption of “Indian figures” (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to Italy. The book explains how to pe...

Mar 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Forgotten Mosaic Reveals the Only Known Image of a Venatrix, the Women Who Fought Beasts in the Roman Amphitheater

The image remained hidden for more than a century. A mosaic found in Reims (France) in 1860, destroyed during World War I and practically forgotten ever since, contains the only known visual repres...

Mar 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Joke is on the Crunchyroll Hackers

Crunchyroll is investigating a potential hack which may have led to the exposure of customer email addresses. As readers of my anime writing on NLJ may know, I am a Crunchyroll subscriber (I have b...