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August 24, 2012
Choose Or Die: ECOPOCALYPSE CH.1 - TAKE BACK YOUR HOUSE
Choose Or Die: ECOPOCALYPSE CH.1 - TAKE BACK YOUR HOUSE: ECOPOCALYPSE CH.1 - TAKE BACK YOUR HOUSE By Steven Novak Milo slams his hand against the passenger door of your c...
History Trivia
On August 24
49 BC Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio was defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio committed suicide to avoid capture.
79 Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash. Pliny the Elder died of asphyxiation at age 56 while witnessing the scene from the coast.
410 Alaric, leader of the Visigoths, sacked Rome, but spared its churches. This was first hostile occupation of the city since the fourth century BC.
1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and ancestor of the Plantagenet kings of England was born.
1200 King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
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The Wizard's Cauldron: Likemonsters
The Wizard's Cauldron: Likemonsters: Hiya Wizardwatchers. Phew. It's calmed down, hasn't it. Been manic! Those two Monsters Of Like events. I must have spent twenty hours th...
August 23, 2012
History Trivia
On August 23
79 Mount Vesuvius ( a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy) began to stir, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain died.
406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beat Radagaisus' Barbarians. Radagaisus King of the Goths (East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin) was captured and executed.
476 Germanic warrior Odoacer was elected King of Byzantium.
686 Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, was born.
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, was executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
79 Mount Vesuvius ( a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy) began to stir, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain died.
406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beat Radagaisus' Barbarians. Radagaisus King of the Goths (East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin) was captured and executed.
476 Germanic warrior Odoacer was elected King of Byzantium.
686 Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, was born.
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, was executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
August 22, 2012
History Trivia
On August 22
392 Arbogast (Frankish general of the Roman Empire) had Eugenius (a Christian who was the last Emperor to support Roman polytheism) elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 Odoacer was named Rex Italia (King of Italy) by his troops. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the classical Roman Empire in Western Europe and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 Erispoe, King of Brittany, defeated Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 Battle of the Standard where English forces repelled the Scottish army led by King David I of Scotland.
1485 Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII became the first king of the Tudor dynasty.
392 Arbogast (Frankish general of the Roman Empire) had Eugenius (a Christian who was the last Emperor to support Roman polytheism) elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 Odoacer was named Rex Italia (King of Italy) by his troops. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the classical Roman Empire in Western Europe and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
565 St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 Erispoe, King of Brittany, defeated Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 Battle of the Standard where English forces repelled the Scottish army led by King David I of Scotland.
1485 Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII became the first king of the Tudor dynasty.
August 21, 2012
The Wizard's Cauldron: An Interview with Alan Rhodes of "The e-reader hou...
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History Trivia
On August 21
1165 Philip II (Philip Augustus) the first king of the Capetian dynasty in France was born.
1689 The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, and formed part of the Jacobite rising commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland.
1165 Philip II (Philip Augustus) the first king of the Capetian dynasty in France was born.
1689 The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, and formed part of the Jacobite rising commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland.
August 20, 2012
Choose Or Die: ECOPOCALYPSE CH.1 - MONDAY
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Battle of Brémule
August 20, 1119 Henry I defeated an invasion of his Norman lands by Louis VI (the Fat), King of France, at the Battle of Brémule. The defeat effectively crippled the baron's rebellion and led to King Louis having to accept William Adelin as Duke of Normandy. William was officially invested with the duchy in 1120, even though King Louis continued to support William Clito's claim to the honour. The contemporary Norman historian Orderic Vitalis noted that the quality of their armour and the chivalrous preference for capturing (and presumably ransoming) the enemy meant that of the 900 knights engaged in ‘the battle of the two kings’ only three were killed.
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