Did you know…Monarch butterflies travel from the US to Mexico and Southern California every autumn? They can reach speeds of 25 mph, and are the only insect to migrate 2,500 miles…

Enceladus

Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus measures in at roughly 500 kilometres - or 310 miles - in diameter. However, this is only a tenth of the size of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1789, not much was known about the icy moon, however, until Voyager 1 flew by Saturn in 1980. Then, in 2005, Cassini-Huygens (a space-research craft) was sent to study Saturn and her moons.

This revealed the moon’s icy surface, complete with cryovolcanoes near the south pole. Later, in 2014, Cassini-Huygens discovered evidence of a subsurface ocean around the south pole, supplying the cryovolcanoes.

Pompeii

An ancient Roman city near Naples, this site is unique due to the eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. As a result of the eruption, Pompeii was buried under roughly 20 feet of volcanic ash and pumice, preserving both the town and its residents.

Over time, the organic remains decayed, leaving voids within the ash that the archaeologists could use as moulds to make plaster casts to help provide more insight into the town.

Suleiman the Magnificent

The tenth, and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman was commonly known as The Magnificent in the West, and The Lawgiver in his empire. During this time, the Ottoman Empire contained over 25 million people.

He, personally, led the Ottoman armies against Belgrade and Rhodes, which at the time were Christian strongholds.

Did you know…most black cats have yellow or golden eyes?

The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

Most notably used by the Mayans, this is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar. Widely used on monuments, the calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days that have passed since a mythical creation date, corresponding with the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Alexander the Great

Crowned Alexander III of Macedon, he created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to India.

Perhaps one of the best-known stories is the taming of Bucephalas, the horse who was scared of its shadow. When Alexander was ten, his father Philip bought a horse for thirteen talents. However, the horse refused to be mounted, so Philip ordered it away. Alexander asked to tame the horse, after watching the previous attempts, and was given the horse after succeeding. Bucephalas stayed with Alexander all the way to India, and when he died of old age, Alexander named a city after him (Bucephala).

Battle of Tettenhall

According to Æthelweard, author of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Battle of Wōdnesdeld took place in August of 910 AD, near Tettenhall. This is commonly thought to be the last Viking raid on Britain.

The final result of the battle was an alliance between the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex, which subdued both the Vikings and the Northern Danes.