MessageToEagle.com – On January 6, 1852, died Louis Braille, creator of the Braille Alphabet For Blind People. Braille was a French teacher who devoted his life to developing
MessageToEagle.com – In December 1952 a great fog blanked London killing as many as 12,000 people. Causing breathing problems, the fog covered the city for five days and it
MessageToEagle.com – On January 5, 1892, the first successful photograph of aurora borealis – the “northern lights” – was made by the German physicist Martin Brendel (1862-1939). Although
MessageToEagle.com – On January 4, 871 AD, the Danes surprised the people of Wessex by arriving on horseback in a lightning raid that swiftly took the town of
MessageToEagle.com – On January 3, 1957, the world’s first electric watch was introduced in Lancaster, PA by the Hamilton Watch Company. Research already began in 1946, but it
MessageToEagle.com –On January 2, 1920, Isaac Asimov, a creator of science fiction was born. He grew up in New York, but it was during his two decades in
MessageToEagle.com – Each October 12th, Spain celebrates Hispanic Day with a national holiday to commemorate the day Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492, but not all people in
MessageToEagle.com – On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie
MessageToEagle.com – The tradition of New Year’s resolutions started a long time ago and can be traced to ancient Babylon. Today, many people start the New Year by making
MessageToEagle.com – In the United States, New Year’s Eve is celebrated with parties, family-oriented activities, and other large public events. One of the most prominent celebrations in the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 30, 1924, America astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there are other galaxies in the cosmos. Our home galaxy Milky Way is not alone; it
MessageToEagle.com – It is about one of the most famous murders of the Middle Ages. On December 29, 1170, four knights of King Henry II of England silently
MessageToEagle.com – There are still many things we don’t know about Neanderthals, but new discoveries provide us with knowledge about our closest extinct human relatives who walked the Earth as
MessageToEagle.com – On 28 Dec 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers presented their first film in Paris. The Lumière brothers, Auguste (1862 -1954) and Louis Jean (1864 – 1948) were
MessageToEagle.com – On December 27, 1571, Johannes Kepler, ‘Father of Modern Astronomy’ was born. His three fundamental statements about planetary motion represent his work, which he based on
MessageToEagle.com – On December 26, 1606, William Shakespeare performed his play ‘King Lear’ before the court of King James I at Whitehall. In 1605, an anonymous play was
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have detected several unknown signals originating thousands of light years from the planet Earth. The source of these mysterious radio bursts (FRBs) is currently being investigated. Are
MessageToEagle.com – About 12,900 years ago “something” caused a sudden climate change. Temperatures rapidly plummeted and returned to glacial conditions for about a 1,200 year long period. Scientists
MessageToEagle.com – On Christmas Day, December 25, 1950, four young Scots retrieved the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey. Used as the coronation stone of the Scottish kings
MessageToEagle.com – On December 24, 1165, William I, the second son of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon succeeded his brother Malcolm IV as King of Scotland. He
MessageToEagle.com – Yohl Ik’nal was queen of the Maya city-state of Palenque, who ruled until her death in 604. She was also known as Lady Kan Ik. She ascended to the
MessageToEagle.com – On December 22, 1911, Grote Reber, amateur astronomer and radio engineer was born in Chicago. He was a ham radio operator, studied radio engineering, and worked
MessageToEagle.com – On December 21, 1872 the HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England, in the first scientific voyage, which would last almost three and a half years. This
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