Posts tagged "history"

Aug 29, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy

This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global e...

Aug 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker

Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But des...

Aug 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. 1 | Study Linking Solar Far...

Aug 28, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Collisions, Combinatorics, and Markov Analysis: `The Balance` Game Design

The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top card on eight piles to the same value before the players run out of cards. Players...

Aug 28, 2026 from Daily Medieval

St. Cloud

Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was killed during an expedition against the Burgundians, his sons...

Aug 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

This Is How Çatalhöyük Managed to Resist for a Thousand Years: Researchers Reveal the Keys to the Survival of the Legendary Neolithic Settlement

A team of researchers from the Istanbul Technical University has used an innovative computational model to unravel the dynamics that allowed the legendary Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in present-d...

Aug 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Hippasus of Metapontum, the Philosopher who Died for Proving that the Pythagoreans were Wrong

To this Greek philosopher, follower of Pythagoras and teacher of Heraclitus, to whom he instilled the idea that the arché or principle of all things was fire, are attributed—disputably—the discover...

Aug 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Adam Douglas’ List Page Links Bookmarklet

I saw a post in my feed collection by Adam Douglas titled Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet. As the title suggests, he created a bookmarklet which “will create a new local web p...

Aug 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-27-26

I have a deadline today, so while the weekday Pook-Emu Bee streak continues, this will be another minimalist entry in my ongoing series. 1 | Israel: Law Adopted to Preserve the Memory of the Octobe...

Aug 27, 2026 from Palladium

Battling All the Way Home

Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means. The post Battling All the Way Home appeared first on Palladium.

Aug 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Clothar's Conquests

When King Hermanfrid of Thuringia offered part of Thuringia to Theuderic if Theuderic would help him defeat Hermanfrid's brother and co-ruler Baderic, Theuderic agreed. During the conflict that fol...

Aug 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Capuchin monkeys already hunt other animals when fruit is scarce, just like the first human ancestors

The seasonal scarcity of fruits and vegetables drives bearded capuchin monkeys to significantly increase the hunting of small vertebrates, a behavior that researchers directly link to survival stra...

Aug 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Heracles Gate with Reliefs of His 12 Labors Found in the Ancient Greek City of Side in Anatolia

The excavations carried out on Street B of the archaeological complex of Side, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey (founded by Greek colonists from Cyme, according to Strabo and Flavius A...

Aug 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-26-26

I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,0...

Aug 26, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Radegund

Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I. She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled with his two brothers, Hermanfrid and Baderic (Baderic wa...

Aug 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

17th-Century Woman’s Grave with “Anti-vampire” Practices Never Before Seen Together Discovered in Poland

A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and geologists has unearthed a 17th-century tomb in the Pień cemetery, in north-central Poland, that defies all funeral nor...

Aug 26, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

An Exceptional 11,000-Year-Old Sculpture Depicting a Man on a Leopard Found in Karahantepe

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of an archaeological piece of singular value during the excavation work being carried out at the Karahant...

Aug 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Learning About Cassette Types

I read an article by Mark Tyson for Tom’s Hardware titled Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives. I have many VCR memories,...

Aug 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26

I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate facing six years in prison after listing dive bar as home address (Marina Peña for...

Aug 25, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Tomb of a Young Viking Woman with Remains of a 1,300-Year-Old Dress Found in Western Jutland

Danish archaeology is facing one of the most unique discoveries of the last decade in the field of ancient Nordic clothing. During the excavation at the site known as Skonager (ARV 661), carried ou...