September 27th: Today in 1822 Jean-François Champollion announces he has translated the Rosetta Stone, giving the world the ability to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time since the language was lost in antiquity.
September 26th: Today in 1580 Francis Drake completed his trip sailing around the world and returned to England with treasure robbed from the Spanish. The trip took three years and led to the British claims of control of New Albion (roughly from San Fransisco north along the Pacific coast).
September 25th: Today in 1066 Harold Godwinson effectively ended the Viking threat to England at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Harold Godwinson defeated a viking who could serve a model of a viking stereotype, Harald Hardrada. The battle was suprise to the vikings who thought they were going to be negotiating the ransoms of hostages [...]
Due to a flood of content spam I have banned two words in comments, using either will get your message immediately deleted. One is casino, so if you want to talk about casinoes use the code phrase ‘Suckerhouse’ and the other is some obscure drug name that you probably would never use anyway, but if [...]
I have been travelling and haven’t been on lately, but this sounds like fun, apparently unintendedly plague has swept some of the World Of Warcraft servers. Next up, accidental famine.
September 24th: Today in 1664 New Amsterdam started on the journey of becoming New York after being captured from the Dutch in a suprise attack from the British.