MessageToEagle.com – On February 23, 1455, Europe’s first mass-produced book – the Gutenberg Bible – was printed with movable type in Mainz, Germany. The book was a Latin language Bible.
MessageToEagle.com – On February 22, 1784, the 52nd birthday of President George Washington, a wooden ship was constructed and named “The Empress of China“. This ship embarked on its
MessageToEagle.com – Carrots, which we buy today, are orange. Researchers have confirmed that their orange color appeared approximately during the 15th and 16th centuries. Previously, the roots of this
MessageToEagle.com – The American astronomer, George Ellery Hale died on February 21, 1938. He developed important astronomical instruments, including the Hale Telescope, a 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory, near
MessageToEagle.com – Researchers in Finland have discovered KBNNO, a certain type of perovskite mineral with the ability to convert energy from several different sources – at the same time.
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have spotted a rare, pulsating star that is expanding and contracting in a unique pattern in three different directions, simultaneously on a scale of once every
MessageToEagle.com – On February 20, 1901, the Russian Orthodox Church censored the Count Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, because his public statements were contradictory to the articles of the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – At the present time, every 10 person is left-handed. This attitude has been going on some 500 000 years as revealed by archaeological
MessageToEagle.com – On February 19, 1600, the eruption at Huaynaputina Volcano was accompanied by large earthquakes at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm. The eruption began with tremendous explosions, the
MessageToEagle.com – Some 1,400 years ago, a Pictish man was brutally murdered and his skeleton was recently discovered in a cave on the coast of the Black Isle peninsula,
MessageToEagle.com – On February 18, 1478, George Plantagenet, duke of Clarence who conspired against his brother, Edward IV, during the Wars of the Roses, was convicted of treason and executed in
MessageToEagle.com – On February 17, 1781, Charles Messier included the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy also known as M83 in his catalogue. The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy
MessageToEagle.com – Earth’s geomagnetic field has been fluctuating for thousands of years but not disappearing, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University
MessageToEagle.com – The Kármán Line is used to define outer space. It is the internationally designated boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The Kármán Line is
MessageToEagle.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the
MessageToEagle.com – On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 p.m., the USS Maine exploded, killing 260 men aboard. Public opinion in the United States, urged on by the yellow press,
MessageToEagle.com – Many ancient cultures regarded number 9 (or ‘Nine’) as a symbol of perfection, unity, and freedom. Even in ancient Egypt, it was attached great importance to the meaning of
MessageToEagle.com – On Feb. 14, 1779, James Cook was killed by a mob on the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii). At the time, he was trying to take the
MessageToEagle.com- On February 13, 1578, Tycho Brahe first sketches of “Tychonic system”, a modified geocentric model in order to explain the motions of bodies in the Solar System. Tycho Brahe
MessageToEagle.com – On February 12, 712, Du Fu, titled “The Sage of Poetry” was born in today’s Gong County in Henan Province, China. Fu was a great personality and
MessageToEagle.com – How important was hygiene in ancient times and expectations about keeping oneself clean? Although the term “hygiene” came into use at the beginning of the nineteenth century,
MessageToEagle.com – On 11th February, 660 AD a very special holiday is celebrated in Japan. It is the so-called National Foundation Day that commemorates the creation of the nation and is
MessageToEagle.com – The ancient city of Pi-Ramesses (“the House of Ramses”) was once the capital of Egypt during the reign of Ramesses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty.
MessageToEagle.com – On Tuesday February 10, 1355, the so-called St Scholastica Day Riot took place in Oxford, England. There are conflicting reports on what exactly happened in what is
A. Sutherlad – MessageToEagle.com – A shape-shifting mythical water bird, Boobrie, is a huge, black creature flying through the water and haunting lakes and salt-water wells. In Scottish
