MessageToEagle.com – On August 23, 1305, great Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and cut into pieces. It was a traitor’s death. On this day William Wallace
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – An almost 2,000-year-old large complex of temples, shrines, and monasteries known as Fengdu Ghost City is devoted to the afterlife. Many temples and shrines are decorated
MessageToEagle.com – On 22 August 1572, “Earl of Northumberland” Thomas Percy was executed because he was Catholic. Thomas Percy was a Catholic and lived when the Protestant Queen
MessageToEagle.com – The Kingdom of Aksum (Axum) also widely known as the Aksumite Empire, was an ancient civilization, which developed in one of the oldest continuously inhabited
MessageToEagle.com – On August 21, 1680, Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish. Pueblo Indians were a peaceful people who managed to endure much after New Mexico’s
MessageToEagle. com – On August 20, 1940, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally stabbed by a pick of an ice axe in his skull. The next day
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – Under the city of Rome, there is a maze of long-forgotten ancient passages and temples; there are millennia-old underground burial chambers, which remember
MessageToEagle.com – On August 19, 1759, continued the naval Battle of Lagos between the Royal Navy of Britain and France, which began one day earlier. This historical event
MessageToEagle.com – On August 18, 1227, Genghis Khan died during the siege of Ningxia. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to being slain
MessageToEagle.com – On August 17, 1970, the Venera 7, a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus was launched from Earth. When it landed
MessageToEagle.com – On August 16, 1896, while camping near Rabbit Creek near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spotted nuggets of gold in a
MessageToEagle.com – On 15 August 1057, the Battle of Lumphanan was fought between Macbeth, King of Scotland, and Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, the future King Malcolm III, the
MessageToEagle.com – In Ireland, the chambered round cairn of Newgrange with its quartz walls and with a passage aligned towards the midwinter sunrise was placed inside a circle
MessageToEagle.com – On August 14, 1720, Spanish Villasur expedition was wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska. In June 1720, a Spanish military force
MessageToEagle.com – On 13 August 1792, the National Tribunal in Paris, formally arrested King Louis XVI of France and the royal family, including Queen Mary Antoinette, the king’s
MessageToEagle.com – The Devil’s Sinkhole – located a few miles northeast of Rocksprings, in Edwards County, Texas – is probably the largest known single-chamber cave in the state.
MessageToEagle.com – On August 12, 1990, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date was discovered and nicknamed “Sue”. The discoverer was the paleontologist Susan “Sue” Hendrickson.
A. Sutherland – MessageToEagle.com – ‘Pax Assyriaca’ (Latin for “Assyrian Peace”) was a long period of peace in the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the 7th century (ca. 700-630/620 BC).
MessageToEagle.com – On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid. In 1675, King Charles II laid the foundation stone
MessageToEagle.com – On 9 August 48 BC, the Battle of Pharsalus was fought between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus (“Pompey the Great”) who fled to Egypt. In this
MessageToEagle.com – An archaeological site of Copán contains the remains of ancient ruins associated with the Maya civilization and is located in the Copán Department of western Honduras,
MessageToEagle.com – On August 8, 1220, Battle of Lihula was fought between invading Swedish army and Estonians for the control of a castle in Lihula, Estonia in 1220.
MessageToEagle.com – On August 7, 1947, Thor Heyerdahl’s raft the Kon –Tiki reached Polynesia. Heyerdahl and his five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotus, French Polynesia,
MessageToEagle.com – On Aug 6, 1840, Adolph Bandelier, Swiss-American anthropologist, famous for his studies of the American Indian cultures was born. Bandelier was the first historian and archaeologist who
MessageToEagle.com – On August 5, 1888, Anna Haining Bates – one of the tallest women in history – died. Anna Haining Bates and she was from Canada. Her parents were
