RB Kollannur
Career - Finance, Data.
Interests - History, Genealogy, Astronomy.
Rotarian, JCI Senator.
Unseen in Plain Sight.
- A pagan ruler, converting to Catholicism to create the largest Christian kingdom at the time. Though the kingdom would endure long after his short-lived dynasty, it would eventually be partitioned by its neighbours and briefly disappear. Story in the evening ... bsky.app/profile/arby...
- Jogaila was born in 1351 to Algirdas of Lithuania and Iuliana of Tver. One of the many sons of Algirdas, Jogaila was the designated heir for the southern part of Lithuania which Algirdas ruled. The northern part was ruled by Kestutis, younger brother of Algirdas. 1/10
- Jogaila had many elder half brothers who were assigned parts Lithuania had acquired from the Rurikid princes. When Algirdas died in 1377, Jogaila took over as the Grand Duke of Lithuania, though his elder brothers would challenge it. 2/10
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View full threadKazimierz's eldest son would go on to rule in Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia as well. But his son, Lajos, would fall in the Battle of Mohács in 1526 and his realm would be divided between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans (and János Zápolya). 10/10
- The execution of a 'gallant and blameless man The Death of Owen Tudor 'Not even a knight, his capture should hardly have warranted much attention, but these were chaotic times where the normal rules no longer applied. open.substack.com/pub/nathenam...
- Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party arstechnica.com/science/2026...
- Poison was another weapon in the arsenal available to enslaved people, and the idea of these deadly concoctions brewed up terror without requiring an actual potion. How the Enslaved of Saint-Domingue Struck Fear Into the Hearts of the Ruling Class lithub.com/how-the-ensl...
- Archaeologists have found new evidence showing early transport and long term use of a wild potato across the American Southwest more than 10,000 years ago. Wild potato may reshape the agricultural story in the American Southwest archaeologymag.com/2026/01/wild...
- A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way www.sciencenews.org/article/dark...
- Nearly Four in Ten New Cancer Cases Per Year Might Be Preventable, According to the World Health Organization - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
- Today, HHV-6B infects about 90 percent of children by age two, causing roseola infantum, also known as “sixth disease,” an illness characterized by a rash and a fever. Common Childhood Virus Detected in Iron Age Remains archaeology.org/news/2026/01...
- The authors sampled 10 quartz-backed arrowheads recovered from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found arstechnica.com/science/2026...
- When Did Europeans Begin Hunting With Bows and Arrows? archaeology.org/news/2026/01...
