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Contemporary reporting shows a string of foiled and prosecuted plots aimed at Christmas markets and gatherings in Europe in 2025, with several arrests tied to Islamist-motivated plots or individuals d...
Historical records and modern reporting show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 to join his sister; under Bavarian law his departure before compl...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump — Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather — emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and entered through Castle Garden in New York; his departure violated ...
Public lists and pop-culture roundups frequently name dozens of celebrities as “Illuminati” members — examples regularly include Beyoncé, Jay‑Z, Rihanna, LeBron James, Kanye West and Madonna — but the...
Available reporting does not describe Rolex as “Jewish.” The founder, Hans Wilsdorf, was born in Bavaria to Protestant parents according to a biographical summary ; recent declassified British intelli...
The Illuminati originated as a real secret society, the Bavarian Illuminati, founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 to promote Enlightenment ideals, but it was disbanded by 1785 with no credible evidence o...
Donald Trump’s ancestry is , with the paternal line tracing to Kallstadt in Bavaria (originally spelled “Drumpf/Drumpft”) and the maternal line to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland; both lines are documen...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1885, returned to Germany, lost his Bavarian citizenship for skipping military service an...
Donald Trump’s paternal ancestors trace to Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Bavarian) region of Germany: his grandfather Friedrich (Friederich/Frederick) Trump was born there in 1869 and emigrated to...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Kallstadt, Bavaria, for the United States at age 16 in 1885 largely to escape compulsory military service and because the village offered limited economic prospects; h...
The historical “Illuminati” was a short‑lived Bavarian society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 that promoted Enlightenment ideas and was suppressed by Bavarian authorities in the 1780s (membership e...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich (Frederick) Trump, immigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 as a teenager and later ran businesses in the U.S.; historical record...
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States from Europe: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Germany and returned to the U.S. by 1885 and again in 190...
Records show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and appears in U.S. immigration and census records under anglicized names; biographers and publ...
A clear paper trail links Friedrich (Frederick) Trump to U.S. immigration: he arrived from Bremen aboard the steamship Eider in October 1885 and is recorded on the Castle Garden passenger manifest; la...
The widely circulated claim that “Jews were kicked out of 109 countries” is a misleading oversimplification: the figure conflates expulsions from cities, regions and episodic displacements over nearly...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and arrived in New York in mid-October of that year; contemporary accounts and family memoirs plac...
Journalists and historians verify claims about Frederick (Fred) Trump Sr. and the Trump family’s immigration timeline by consulting primary records (immigration manifests, naturalization files, census...
The term "tampliers" likely refers to a misspelling of the , a medieval military order founded in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades, distinct from the , an Enlightenment-era secre...
Anabaptists in 16th‑century Europe were pursued, imprisoned, and often executed—by drowning, burning, beheading and other means—by both Protestant “magisterial” authorities and Roman Catholic institut...