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On January 27, 1593, the Vatican began a seven year trial against an Italian Dominican cleric, Giordano Bruno. Bruno was born in Nola, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, in 1548, and at the age of 17, he joined the convent of San Domenico Maggiore...

– What is time? What does it mean? How do we define time? We say that time flies, it marches on, it flows like a river—our descriptions of time are closely linked to our experiences of moving through space. The experiences you had a year...

In 52 BC, a massive Gallic stronghold Gergovia was the scene of battle between several Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix, one of the best-known and greatest Gallic leaders and a Roman Republican army, led by Proconsul Julius Caesar. Vercingetorix led the Arverni, the most powerful...

, a telegraphed distress call came in from the captain of the ocean liner RMS Republic, which in dense fog collided with another ship, an Italian ship Florida and began to sink. The telegraph signal was relayed by the nearby Nantucket station, and a nearby...

On January 22, 1506, a group of 150 Swiss mercenaries led by their Captain Kaspar of Silenen in the Canton of Uri, entered the Vatican for the first time through the „Porta del Popolo“. They were blessed by Pope Julius II. The Swiss Guard is...

On January 20, 1569, died Myles Coverdale who printed the first English Bible. Coverdale was a clergyman and Classics scholar who produced the first complete printed English Bible. He was born most probably in Yorkshire, in 1488 but little is known about his early life....

On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook, the English explorer, became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands. He arrived in the Islands on his third voyage to the Pacific. Commanding the Resolution and Discovery on a mission to explore a Northwest Passage and...

On January 17, 1781, the Battle of Cowpens took place just north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. The American forces were led by Daniel Morgan, an experienced Brigadier General who participated in some other battles such as Battle of Quebec and the Battle...

On January 16, 1765, Charles Messier catalogued M41— a huge open cluster of stars in the constellation Canis Major. Visible to the naked eye, M41 is a bright object of magnitude 4.6, located about 4 degrees nearly exactly south of Sirius, the brightest star in...

On January 15, 1929, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King was twentieth-century America’s most compelling and effective civil rights leader. After entering Morehouse College at age fifteen, King followed his father and grandfather into the Baptist ministry. He received...