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Oxford

City in Oxfordshire, England

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Dec 7, 2025
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What strategic minerals does Venezuela have that are critical to US tech and defense industries?

Venezuela is widely reported to hold deposits of minerals that matter to U.S. technology and defense supply chains — notably coltan (tantalum/niobium), bauxite/aluminium ores, iron ore, gold, and pros...

Dec 13, 2025
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Did bill Clinton dodge the draft

Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...

Jan 30, 2026
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Oxford 15 minute city

The “” is an urban‑planning idea that aims to place everyday amenities within a 15‑minute walk or bike ride of residents to cut car dependence and improve health and sustainability . became the flashp...

Dec 14, 2025

How many Muslim mayors are there across England as of 2025?

No reliable, consolidated count of Muslim mayors across England in 2025 is provided in the available reporting; fact‑checks say many viral lists are misleading and that only a small number of high‑pro...

Dec 21, 2025

Did Bill Clinton serve in the military, and what was his draft status?

Bill Clinton did not serve in the U.S. military; during the Vietnam era he used legally available educational deferments, drew a high lottery number that made induction unlikely, was reclassified and ...

Nov 12, 2025

How did Bill Clinton obtain his Vietnam draft deferment?

Bill Clinton avoided service in Vietnam through a sequence of , administrative reclassifications tied to promised military or reserve programs he did not ultimately fulfill, and finally by receiving a...

Dec 2, 2025

How many Muslim mayors were elected in England in the 2024 local elections?

Reuters and other fact‑checkers show the viral claim that many English mayors elected in May 2024 were Muslim is misleading: only London’s directly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan, is clearly identified as ...

Jan 24, 2026

Which English cities and towns have Muslim mayors in 2025?

The only consistently and authoritatively confirmed in in 2025 from the provided reporting is , the directly elected Mayor of (a high‑profile, executive post) . Numerous other English towns and cities...

Dec 8, 2025

Who is Ian Carroll and what is his background or professional history?

"Ian Carroll" is not a single public figure; multiple people with that name appear in the record across media, medicine, academia, music and technology. The most prominent profiles in the supplied sou...

Nov 9, 2025

Who are the Muslim mayors of English cities since 2000 and when were they elected?

The claim that many English cities have had Muslim mayors since 2000 is ; reliable, recent analyses identify only a small set of verifiable cases, with Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) being the clearest ...

Jan 30, 2026

Oxford 15 minute city permits

’s experiment ties ANPR “traffic filters” to a permit system that lets local drivers pass certain camera-controlled streets without penalty for a limited number of days per year—commonly reported as u...

Jan 23, 2026

How many lynchings in Ohio are named on national memorials and which victims remain unidentified?

research and for Peace and Justice record that has documented victims whose deaths are recognized on national remembrance projects (this figure is cited in EJI and multiple local reports) . Local and ...

Jan 13, 2026

Did Arabic/Muslim enslavers castrate male slaves, and did the trans saharan slave journey lead to a lot of deaths

Historical scholarship and contemporary reporting agree that castration of some male captives occurred in routes and markets tied to the Arab-Muslim slave trades, and that the trans‑Saharan marches we...

Jan 24, 2026

What reasons did Bill Clinton give for avoiding military service in the 1960s and 1970s?

’s public explanation for avoiding military service in the era rested on a mix of moral opposition to the war and pragmatic use of legal deferments and timing: he said he was “morally opposed” to the ...

Nov 16, 2025

What do political scientists say about MAGA and authoritarian tendencies?

Political scientists offer competing but converging views: many studies find a meaningful link between right‑wing authoritarianism (RWA) and support for the MAGA agenda—correlations often described as...

Jan 30, 2026

Peter Thiel is the Antichrist.

There is no factual basis in the reporting provided to assert that is the Antichrist; instead, the available sources document that Thiel has publicly and privately lectured at length about the Antichr...

Nov 18, 2025

What are the top uncensored AI models for academic research in 2024?

In 2024 the public discussion around “uncensored” AI models focused on post-trained or community-modified versions of open models (examples and popularity spikes occurred in late 2024 and into 2025) r...

Nov 20, 2025

john neely kennedy and joyce meyer

John Neely Kennedy is the Republican U.S. senator from Louisiana, first elected in 2016 and serving through at least 2029 per biographical and election records . Available sources in this packet do no...

Jan 30, 2026

What specific measures did Oxfordshire County Council propose in its 2040 traffic filter pilots?

shire County Council proposed a package of targeted "" measures to trial on six Oxford roads aimed at cutting through-traffic, speeding up buses and improving conditions for walking and cycling as par...

Jan 15, 2026

What are the Garima Gospels and what do carbon‑dating studies say about their age?

The Garima Gospels are two (with traces of a third) illuminated Geʽez gospel codices long preserved at the Abba Garima Monastery in northern Ethiopia; they contain all four canonical Gospels with deco...