MessageToEagle.com – On December 16, 1707, Mount Fuji – Japan’s tallest mountain erupted. It was the last confirmed eruption of Mount Fuji, the highest volcano and highest peak in
MessageToEagle.com – On December 15, 1612, Simon Marius (1573 – 1624) mathematician and astronomer, independently rediscovered the “Nebula in the Girdle of Andromeda”, actually the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
MessageToEagle.com – Iran’s ancient rock art could be among the oldest in the world. An Iranian archaeologist has spent years in an almost single-handed quest across the country’s
MessageToEagle.com – On December 14, 1883, Ueshiba Morihei – the ‘Founder of Aikido’, was born in what is now Tanabe, Japan. Until his death in 1969 at the age
MessageToEagle.com – On December 13, 1577, Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth with a five-ship flotilla on the dangerous path that killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan 50 years
MessageToEagle.com – A mysterious extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, and dubbed ASASSN-15lh, has long been observed by astronomers. It was thought to be
MessageToEagle.com – On Dec 12, 627 AD, the Battle of Nineveh was fought between the forces of the Byzantine Empire, under the Emperor Haraclius, and those of the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 11, 1792, King Louis XVI of France was put on trial for treason by the National Convention. Louis XVI (also known as Louis Capet)
MessageToEagle.com – On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is considered the world’s most translated document according to the Guinness
MessageToEagle.com – On December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho was fought on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru. It was one of the Latin-American wars of independence and
MessageToEagle.com – On December 8, 1542, Mary Queen of Scots was born. She represents one of history’s true enigmas. Historians know plenty about what she did and where
MessageToEagle.com – On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted a surprise military strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack was
MessageToEagle.com – On December 5, 771, Charlemagne became the King of the Franks, after the death of his brother Carloman. Charlemagne, son of King Pepin the Short succeeded
MessageToEagle.com – On December 4, 1154, the only English Pope in the whole history of the Catholic Church was elected, from 1154 to 1159. His birth name was
MessageToEagle.com – Extreme organisms, or one can say, super-organisms are able to live in the extreme. They are super-organisms because they can quickly adapt to the new environment
MessageToEagle.com – Mexico City, which now sits on top of Tenochtitlan, is sinking fast. It was first built by the Aztecs in the 14th century, who chose a
MessageToEagle.com – On December 3, 1872, a translation from Babylonian cuneiform tablets of the Chaldean account of the deluge was read by George Smith (1840 – 1876), English
MessageToEagle.com – On December 2, 1594, died Gerardus Mercator, the best-known mapmaker of all time. He was born on March 5, 1512, in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now Belgium). After
MessageToEagle.com – For the last 90 years, the so-called Banda Detachment fault has remained an unsolved mystery to geologists. Nobody has been able to explain, how a 7.2km
MessageToEagle.com – On November 30, 1954, the Sylacauga meteorite fell in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. This mostly unusual event took place at 13:46 local time and received
MessageToEagle.com – On November 26, 1476, Vlad III Dracula (1431-1476), ruler of Wallachia returned from a decade-long exile to take a throne for the last. The man was
MessageToEagle.com – There is a path of the sky known as ‘Zone of Avoidance’ that has long been invisible to astronomers. It is covered by the Milky Way,
MessageToEagle.com – On November 24, 1996, Sorley MacLean, one of the most important poets died. Sorley MacLean, (in Gaelic: Somhairle Macgill-Eain) will be remembered as one of the
