Month: August 2020

08/09 – Adrianople: The Road to Rome’s Ruin

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Gothic infantrymen - aided by their infamous heavy cavalry - literally stampeding over the corpses of fallen Roman Legionnaires. (VDOCUMENTS) On this day in 378, Roman Emperor Valens and 20,000 heavily-armed Legionnaires set off on an 8 mile (13km) march towards Adrianople, a large settlement in Western Turkey. Their target was an encampment of 20,000…

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08/04 – The Mississippi Burning Murders

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Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, pictured here on their FBI "Missing" poster. (NPR) On this day in 1964, a shallow grave was discovered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the US Navy. Located in Mississippi's dense, swampy backcountry, the grave contained the bodies of three…

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