MessageToEagle.com – On January 7th, 1610, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer and mathematician made a discovery of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io
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 – A newly uncovered pyramid structure in central Peru could turn upside down the way researchers have thought of the area regarding its importance in Incan hierarchy. After
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 – The mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls have long fascinated archaeologists, historians and Biblical scholars. First discovered in West Jordan in 1947, near the ruins of Qumran, these ancient
MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists in Denmark have made a very rare discovery. In Ågård, an important settlement during the Viking Age, researchers found a buckle depicting Norse God Loki. The
MessageToEagle.com – Our ancestors were fascinated with the night sky. They watched the movements of celestial bodies, observed solar and moon eclipses and created calendars based on their astronomical
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 – Many of the so-called Aztec temples were temples that existed before the Aztec empire did. Many peoples and cities were conquered and forced to pay tribute,
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 – Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a sword believed to be more than 2,300 years old. The amazing discovery was made in an ancient tomb in Xinyang city, central
MessageToEagle.com – Toothpicks were used long before our times, which was recently confirmed by evidence found by researchers excavating in northern Spain. Wood fibers were found on a
MessageToEagle.com – Have you ever heard of a Handsel Monday festival? Most people haven’t. It’s an old Scottish tradition celebrated on the first Monday in the New Year. After
MessageToEagle.com – Harpenden is a small town in the county of Hertfordshire, England. Analysis from ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey reveals strong anomalies consistent with a large rectangular stone building
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 – 2016 was a very successful year for archaeologists excavating in Scandinavia. Several remarkable ancient findings were made in the Nordic countries. Some of these ancient discoveries
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 – On December 31, people in Scotland celebrate Hogmanay. It’s a very old tradition and the celebrations continue into the first couple of days of January. Many local
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 – The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is limestone monument that celebrates thirty-one successful years of military campaigns by king Shalmaneser III and his prominent minister. Black Obelisk
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