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Christmas as practiced today is a layered holiday whose date, some customs, and seasonal timing intersect with pre-Christian festivals such as Roman Saturnalia, Sol Invictus and Northern European Yule...
In 47 BC Julius Caesar was the dominant Roman leader, campaigning in Egypt and Asia and consolidating power at Rome; he relieved the Siege of Alexandria, fought the Battle of the Nile with Cleopatra’s...
The label “Palestine” was not invented out of thin air by Rome, but the Roman rebranding of Judaea as Syria Palaestina in the 2nd century CE was a pivotal moment that transformed an older geographic t...
Three Roman-era non‑Christian writers commonly cited as mentioning Jesus are Tacitus, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger; Tacitus (Annals, c. 116) says “Christus” suffered under Pontius Pilate and that C...
Estimates of how many Nazis fled to South America after World War II vary widely; several sources cite figures up to about 9,000 people spirited out of Europe, with specific allocations such as “as ma...
Scholars and mainstream histories agree that the modern Christmas tree and wreath practices were formalized in medieval and early‑modern Christian Europe—notably Germany in the 16th century—but they a...
Archaeological reporting does not identify a single uncontested “largest recorded human skeleton”; claims range from well-documented pathological individuals (ancient cases of gigantism) to contested ...
George Soros and his Open Society-linked foundations have a documented history of funding human rights and social justice organizations globally, and recent reporting in October 2025 connects Soros-ba...
Dan Brown’s portrayal of the Illuminati is a fictionalized, central plot device in Angels & Demons (published as Illuminati in some editions): an “ancient secret group of scientists” said to have been...
Roman-era writers who mention Jesus by name include Tacitus (who calls him Christus and records his execution under Pontius Pilate) and the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus (who refers to Jesus in Anti...
Scholars disagree: some evidence ties December 25 to earlier Roman and northern winter festivals (Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, Yule), while other historians argue the date grew from internal Christian ca...
Non‑Christian writers Tacitus and Josephus provide independent ancient attestations that align with the Gospels on three core points: a historical figure called Jesus/Christ existed, he was executed u...
Scholars point to a small cluster of non‑Christian ancient sources that mention Jesus — most notably the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Tacitus — and judge them useful for confirmin...
Charlie Kirk has publicly described a long-standing Christian faith that began in childhood and deepened over time, including significant moments such as a 2018 trip to the Holy Land and ongoing engag...
Nearly all provided accounts report that roughly participated in the No Kings protests, with demonstrations held in across the United States on and around October 18–20, 2025; organizers and sympathet...
Italy faces multiple, documented human rights failures across migration, detention, Roma housing, prison conditions, and restrictions on protest and defenders; recent reports and rulings show patterns...
The International Criminal Court can claim jurisdiction over a sitting U.S. president only through specific treaty- and UN-based mechanisms rather than by unilateral action: principally when alleged c...
Aktion T4 was a state‑directed Nazi “euthanasia” program that identified, transported and murdered tens of thousands of people with mental illness and disabilities beginning in 1939; it used medicaliz...
Monotheism centers on belief in a single, unique God and typically connects divine authority to a unified moral and legal order; major monotheistic faiths named include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, S...
The Rome Statute defines war crimes in Article 8 and through its Elements of Crimes to cover a wide range of conduct—intentionally killing or torturing protected persons, using child soldiers, directi...