Posts tagged "history"

Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM)

The phrase “the year of the Linux desktop” has become something of a meme. As a 2025 Hackaday headline went, The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year. Note that I write this with all due a...

Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-31-26

They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That is true in terms of whether (looks nice out), but not in terms of your regularly-scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OneTaste ‘o...

Mar 31, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Henry II of Champagne

We're going to look at the man who unexpectedly became King of Jerusalem in 1192.Henry was the son of the Count of Champagne, Henry I, and Marie of France, who was a daughter of Eleanor of Aquitain...

Mar 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Shipwrecks, Byzantine Anchors, and Port Remains Discovered North of the Greek Island of Karpathos

The Greek Ministry of Culture, through the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and in collaboration with the National Research Foundation—specifically the Institute of Historical Research—has carrie...

Mar 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The camp of the first Roman legions settled in Frankfurt is discovered, surprisingly without evidence of battles or confrontations

Renovation works at the Bolongaro Palace in the Höchst district have uncovered an archaeological site that changes the historical understanding of the first contact between Romans and local inhabit...

Mar 31, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Armenian and Georgian alphabets closely resemble the ancient Ethiopian writing system: researchers believe it is not a coincidence

Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University have published a study in which, using artificial intelligence as the primary analytical tool, they demonstra...

Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Respond, Don’t Create

I came across a blog post by Herbert Lui titled Respond, Don’t Create, and thought I would respond. For people looking to publish more often, he recommends reading interesting articles from around ...

Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Retro Re; On Ditching AMP

I came across a 2021 blog post by Maddy Miller on dropping Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”) support on her blog. Back when I started running The New Leaf Journal, I had little idea what I was doing...

Mar 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Jirahgorgon discovered: remains of a new prehistoric predator found in South Africa that challenge the history of early mammals

An international team of paleontologists has discovered in the Karoo desert, in South Africa, a new species of prehistoric predator that is revolutionizing understanding of the origin of mammals. T...

Mar 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-30-26

I have work today, but let us start the work week with a new set of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (Sam McLeod. March 29, 2026.) As a Linu...

Mar 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Selecting the King

The question of who should be King of Jerusalem came up after the death of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem during the Siege of Acre.. He husband, Guy of Lusignan, was only king suo jure (by right of mar...

Mar 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Substances Romans Burned as Offerings to the Gods Identified in Two Containers Found in Pompeii

An international team of researchers has succeeded in identifying, for the first time, remains of aromatic resins imported into two incense burners found in Pompeii, providing new data on the domes...

Mar 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

10 intact burial mounds from the late Neolithic discovered in Saxony with an unusual concentration of flint weapons and arrowheads

A team of archaeologists from the Landesamt für Archäologie (LfA) has completed the excavation of a field of burial mounds in the Laußnitzer Heide region in eastern Germany, whose finds place this ...

Mar 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Fascinating Story of Wattieza, the Oldest Known Tree That Formed Earth’s First Forests

In the year 1870, workers repairing a road damaged by floods in Gilboa, New York, made a discovery that would forever change our understanding of early life on our planet. As they lifted the soil, ...

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...