Posts tagged "history"

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo

Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search whi...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026

Last month, I participated in Robert Birming’s “Junited” project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Function of Iron Age Stelae Along Prehistoric Route in Southern Iberian Peninsula Revealed

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Seville, has unearthed a funerary complex in the southwest of Spain that sheds light on one of the oldest debates in Iberian archaeolo...

Jul 02, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Rashi

An exegete is someone who interprets a text, especially religious texts. One of the leading Jewish exegetes in the Middle Ages was Shlomo Yitzchaki (February 1040 - 13 Juluy 1105), "Shlomo the son ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

How Long Will Life on Earth Last? A New Calculation Extends the Timeline to 1.8 Billion Years or More if We Can Modify the Planet’s Orbit

The Sun becomes brighter over time, and this increasing brightness will eventually suffocate plant life on Earth. The question that has occupied scientists studying the planet’s future for decades ...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Tomb of a 6th-Century BC Picene Prince Found in Central Italy with a Two-Wheeled Chariot and Large Still-Sealed Containers

Preventive archaeology investigations promoted by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Ancona and Pesaro and Urbino, carried out by the company ArcheoLab...

Jul 02, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Well of Junia Rufina: The Mystery of the Roman Lady Whose Name Appears in Inscriptions from Albania and Cádiz

At the Butrint archaeological site, in southern Albania, there is a well with almost two thousand years of history that continues to surprise. It was excavated by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Ug...

Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

World Cup De-Branding

I have never been a soccer person, so this year’s World Cup has not registered much on me beyond seeing an unusual number of foreign national team soccer jerseys on some days (despite the best effo...

Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On Markdown Editors and Fluff

Rodrigo Ghedin published a short “hot take” on markdown: “[I]f you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting.” I largely agree, although I personally use...

Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-01-26

I have not published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links since June 23. But today is the start of a new month. Let us turn over a new leaf in July with the Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Nina Totenberg Sincerely Apologiz...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Death of the Medici Brothers, Clearing Centuries of Speculation About Poisoning

In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, scion of the dynasty that dominated the politics and banking of Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, in 1587, his older b...

Jul 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Apostasy

"Apostasy" is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious (or political) belief. Yesterday's post on Canon 70 of the Fourth Lateran Council discussed the concern over Jews who converted to Chris...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Discovery Reveals an Irish Site as One of the First Organized Urban Settlements of the Bronze Age in Western Europe

The research, published in the journal Antiquity, places Haughey’s Fort, near Armagh in Northern Ireland, as the hub of a meticulously ordered landscape where domestic life, craft production, and r...

Jul 01, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Famous Michelangelo Sculpture May Be the Earliest Representation of a Disease, 327 Years Before It Was Officially Described

Can a 16th century work of art contain the diagnosis of a disease that would not be named until three centuries later? That is the fascinating question posed by a team of dermatologists and art his...

Jun 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)

Diagrams from a lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.

Jun 30, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Race and Ethnicity: Canon 70

After the past few entries concerning the anti-Jewish Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, we come finally to Canon 70, dealing with Jews who convert to Christianity but might change their...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

The Surprising Similarity Between Iberian and Scandinavian Petroglyphs of Ships: Nordic Crews May Have Carved Them

A new archaeological analysis, led by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading, has revealed that the societies inhabiting Western Europe during the Bronze Age maintained a level ...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Thousand Years Ago Entire Decorative Panels of the Pyramid of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli in Tula Were Torn Off and Buried Alongside Six Sacrificed Children

Nearly a millennium ago, in the 12th century, the city of Tollan Xicocotitlan was far from its era of splendor, which occurred between the years 900 and 1100 AD. Nevertheless, numerous groups settl...

Jun 30, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Coins Found in Romania Reveal That the Enigmatic King Moskon Was a Celtic Ruler of the Bastarnae in the 2nd Century BC

In the lands of present-day Northern Dobrudja, in Romania, south of the Danube Delta, small silver coins have been appearing for decades that bear the inscription basileus (king) and the name Mosko...

Jun 29, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review)

Within the history of cryptography, the tale of how Bletchley Park broke Germany’s Enigma cipher has been told many times, in both print and on screen. With so much emphasis on the “plucky Brits ov...