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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...

Dec 14, 2025
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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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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 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...

Dec 16, 2025

How did Jefferson's views on religious liberty apply to Muslims in early America?

Thomas Jefferson wrote and defended the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom to protect “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan,” and he recorded that lawmakers rejected inserting “Jes...

Jan 16, 2026

Mark carney

Mark Carney is a Canadian economist and former central banker who transitioned from leading the Bank of Canada to governing the Bank of England and, more recently, to party politics as Canada’s prime ...

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...

Nov 19, 2025

What are the strongest pieces of physical evidence (hair, footprints, DNA) attributed to Bigfoot and how were they analyzed?

The most scrutinized physical traces attributed to Bigfoot are hair samples, plaster casts of large footprints, and a few videos/photographs — with hair DNA tests repeatedly tracing samples to known a...

Nov 14, 2025

What do DNA analyses of alleged Bigfoot samples show?

DNA tests done on alleged Bigfoot (and related “yeti”) samples have mostly identified the material as known animals—dogs, bears, horses, deer, human contamination and other common mammals—rather than ...

Nov 8, 2025

How do non-Christian sources (Josephus, Tacitus) corroborate Gospel accounts of Jesus?

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...

Jan 11, 2026

bigfoot dna evidence

The scientific record to date contains no confirmed Bigfoot (or other “relict hominoid”) DNA: systematic peer‑reviewed studies that analyzed dozens of hair samples identified only known species or hum...

Nov 23, 2025

What are the phases of male sexual response and where does ejaculation fit in?

Medical and classical models describe the male sexual response in four main phases—commonly framed as desire (or appetitive), arousal/excitement (sometimes split into excitement and plateau), orgasm, ...