MessageToEagle.com – On April 9, 1747, the Scottish Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, becomes the last man in Britain to be publicly beheaded at Tower Hill, London. The

MessageToEagle.com – On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled across a damaged statue inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos, the current village

MessageToEagle.com – A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicate that these monster objects may be more common than once thought, according

MessageToEagle.com – On April 7, 451, Attila the Hun, who reigned 434-453 CE, captured and plundered the city of Metz – the Roman’s stronghold. Without any opposition, he massacred the

MessageToEagle.com – The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive to life, at

MessageToEagle.com – On April 6, 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was drafted and sent, in the form of a letter to Pope John XXII. The document written in Latin,

MessageToEagle.com – It is not the first time scientists have expressed a desire to resurrect extinct species. On previous occasions scientists said they wanted to sequence the genes of

MessageToEagle.com – It’s time for some exciting news from the world of physics and cosmology. A Caltech cosmologist recently announced he was found evidence of parallel universes! If that’s

MessageToEagle.com – New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy’s core

MessageToEagle.com – On April 5, 1242,  the famous “Battle on the Ice” was fought on Lake Peipus between the Teutonic and Livonian Knights, and the army of the Russian city of

MessageToEagle.com – A new discovery suggests that human DNA is less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA — left by viruses that first infected

MessageToEagle.com – Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for

MessageToEagle.com – On April 4, 1581, Francis Drake was knighted after completing his circumnavigation of the world. Queen Elizabeth herself knighted him. He is documented as the second person

MessageToEagle.com – On April 3, 686, Maya king Yuknoom Ixquiac (Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’) – “Jaguar Paw Smoke” assumes the crown of Calakmul, now a Maya archaeological site in the

MessageToEagle.com – The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date has been created by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge.

MessageToEagle.com – Charlemagne was born on April 2, 742 in Northern Europe. He was also known as Charles the Great (in English), Karl der Grosse, (in German) and Carolus Magnus

MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered white dwarf, about 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Draco, has no hydrogen or helium at its surface. Instead, a star – nicknamed SDSS

MessageToEagle.com – On April 1, 1826, American Samuel Morey patented his “Gas or Vapor Engine” — the first internal combustion engine patent in the United States. Morey was the

MessageToEagle.com – Periodic mass extinctions on Earth, as indicated in the global fossil record, could be linked to a suspected ninth planet, according to research published by a faculty

MessageToEagle.com – On March 31, 1814, Tsar Alexander I of Russia at the head of the Coalition Army triumphantly marched into Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate a few days later. The

MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF’s Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in

MessageToEagle.com – On 30 March 240 BC, the first recorded passage of Halley’s Comet was observed by Chinese astronomers in the Chinese chronicle ‘Records of the Grand Historian’ (or

MessageToEagle.com – Your blood vessels may be tiny but they cover a lot of ground and could circle the globe. The network of blood vessels is startlingly very long,

MessageToEagle.com – New research suggests that some of Saturn’s icy moons as well as its famous rings might be younger than the dinosaurs. Their dramatic birth may have taken

MessageToEagle.com – Ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone Hotspot track ‘significantly larger’ than expected, according to a new study. International team led by researchers from the University of Leicester has identified