Preface: On this site, the great writer Hakeem Fullerton has compiled pieces about various US general elections, and in his…
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In The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’, written by Paul McCartney, the eponymous character is said to have: “Died in the church…
The statistics alone express the horrors of the Mongol leader’s brutality: 40 million killed. This may be hard to fathom…
Over the many myriads of humankind, our species has managed to devise many treacherous and utterly barbaric forms of punishment.…
I think we can all agree that religion is very silly – many people argue over the realism of gods…
Here at TWM, we’ve previously covered the misconceptions from a number of world leaders of the 20th century. With that…
Oscar Wilde may have said it best when he said “The truth is rarely pure and never simple”. The likelihood…
It is with welcome arms that science has come on in leaps and bounds since “the good old days”. No…
As much as it pains me to say it as an Englishman, Wales truly is one of the great countries…
Whenever the claim of a ‘golden age in the mid-20th century is presented, there are many go-to examples to disprove…
Of course, the English language – one of the largest in the world – is forever evolving so the creation…
As far back as the earliest law sources, from Hammurabi’s Code to Draco The Lawgiver, many pieces of legislation or…
Wrestling has a weird historical obsession with Nazism…
The letter ‘E’ is the most popular letters in the English language. On average, the letter contributes to 13% of…
When the topic of extinction events is brought up, there are immediate exemplars: the Chicxulub meteor that wiped the dinosaurs…