I remember watching a documentary on US history and hearing about this one president of the US who was a notorious cross-dresser, he also governed so badly that he was not nominated for a second term, anyone able to tell me who this cross-dressing president was, I forgot the name.

The Prussian province of Silesia was split in two "halves", the northwest, centered around Breslau (Wrocław), was mostly Protestant, German-speaking, and was akin to other regions of the kingdom of Prussia. The southeast, centered around Oppeln (Opole) however was very different as its inhabitant...

According to wikipedia on the 1966 Palomares B-52 Crash: The first weapon to be discovered was found nearly intact. However, the conventional explosives from the other two bombs that fell on land detonated without setting off a nuclear explosion (akin to a dirty bomb explosion). Are t...

According to the article Cebu, a Port City in Prehistoric and in Present Times, The Visayan Islands had earlier encounter with the Greek traders in 21 A.D. This is repeated in the Wikipedia article Prehistory of the Philippines almost word for word (including the dodgy English) but with a...

The two bridges across the Rhine river are considered among the greatest military engineering achievements in the ancient world. Caesar's Bridge across the Rhine, the first two bridges to cross the Rhine River on record, were built by Julius Caesar and his legionaries during the Gallic War in...

We have an intense discussion going on between the fact of whether the Soviet Union was a fascist state or not. Our doubt lies in fascism as an opposite to communism and we wonder if the Soviet Union is, or technically was, defined as a fascist state, communist state, or something else. If yo...