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11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
Multiple reputable fact‑checks and primary biographies reject the claim that Michelle Obama is a man named Michael Robinson: Full Fact and AFP say the “Michael/Michelle” story is false and based on al...
The New York Times traces its beginning to September 18, 1851, when the paper published its first issue under the name the New-York Daily Times (founders Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones) . Multi...
Jill Biden’s first marriage was to Bill (William) Stevenson; multiple reputable timelines and fact-checks report the marriage lasted from 1970 to 1975, with the couple separating in 1974 and divorcing...
The phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) builds directly on earlier partisan coinages such as “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and “Obama Derangement Syndrome,” which commentators and media figures us...
Primary-document verification of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s stated birthplace (Mogadishu, Somalia) and birthdate (October 4, 1982) is limited in public reporting because Omar is a refugee who, according to mul...
Public reporting and reference sites indicate The Ben Shapiro Show reaches a very large audience: Encyclopaedia Britannica states the podcast is "listened to 25 million times a month" . Other pages de...
Police records and news reporting show George Floyd had multiple arrests and convictions between the late 1990s and 2007, including theft-related convictions in 1998 and a 2007 aggravated robbery that...
Student deferments for the Vietnam-era draft were effectively limited by Congress in 1971, when President Nixon signed draft-reform legislation that ended the automatic II‑S undergraduate deferment fo...
Keir Starmer is married to Victoria (née Alexander) Starmer; the couple wed in 2007 and are publicly described as keeping their family life private while supporting his political career. Multiple prof...
Brigitte Macron has three children from her first marriage: Sébastien (born 1975), Laurence (born 1977) and Tiphaine (born 1984), according to multiple official and reference sources (Élysée and Wikip...
Available reporting shows different tallies: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Georgetown cite about 20–21 reported strikes and roughly 80–83 deaths through late November 2025 . Other outlets give lower cu...
Scholars remain divided: some recent archaeological claims — notably a 2025 reinterpretation of Proto‑Sinaitic inscriptions that may read “This is from Moses” — have reignited debate but are contested...
The FBI conducted a 17-year probe into the June 1962 Alcatraz breakout and officially closed its file on December 31, 1979, concluding the three men likely drowned . Responsibility for the matter then...
Available reporting consistently states that Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States in 1995 as a child refugee and was about 12 years old at the time . Multiple reputable biographies and Omar’s own H...
Robert Maxwell was born Ján/Ludvík (variants recorded) Hoch in 1923 in then‑Czechoslovakia and legally changed his name to Ian Robert Maxwell after naturalisation; his birth name was repeatedly invoke...
The mainstream, official finding is that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Officer J.D. Tippit shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination; the Warren Commission and later the HSCA reached that co...
Available reporting consistently lists Erika Lane Frantzve Kirk’s date of birth as November 20, 1988, which makes her 36 years old in 2025 . Multiple outlets say she married Charlie Kirk on May 8, 202...
Saint Jerome’s Latin Vulgate translation rendered the Hebrew helel ben shachar (Isaiah 14:12) as “Lucifer,” a common Latin word for the morning star (Venus); that poetic phrase originally addressed a ...
Contemporary non‑Muslim materials from the seventh century do mention a leader or prophetic figure associated with the early Arab conquests, and a handful of near‑contemporary inscriptions and chronic...
Multiple contemporaneous witnesses and later investigators linked Lee Harvey Oswald to the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit; the Warren Commission relied heavily on several named eyewitnesses (for exampl...