History

Roman Empire

"the ancient empire, centred on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 BCE following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the empire of the West in the 5th century CE" -britannica.com

A Little History of Religion, by Richard Holloway

“For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start.” — Booklist

Yajnavalkya

Priority request. Hindu Vedic sage (c. 700 BCE) who proposes and debates metaphysical questions about the nature of existence, consciousness and impermanence, and expounds the epistemic doctrine of neti neti ("not this, not this") to discover the universal Self and Ātman.-- wikpedia

T/F: Jesus died on the cross

described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient sources, and is considered an established historical event -- wikipedia.

Hermes Trismegistus

"He is the purported author of the Hermetica, a widely diverse series of ancient and medieval pseudepigraphica that lay the basis of various philosophical systems known as Hermeticism" -- wikipedia.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

has the highest millionaire concentration of any US city, with 12.4 percent of households having at least $1 million in assets. This is a result of chemists, engineers, and physicists working at LANL since the Manhattan Project. Only 6.6% of people are below the poverty line -- wikipedia

Corporal Wojtek (bear)

Request: A brown bear that was trained by soldiers and even helped fight on the front lines. A stranger than fiction story and I’m curious if the bear may calibrate at a higher than normal level of what bears typically calibrate at.

T/F: aliens helped build the great pyramids of Giza

Request: A frequently held belief about how the pyramids were constructed.

T/F: US agencies played a part in founding and funding ISIS

Oh those US agencies and their warped geopolitics...

Billy Milligan

In October 1977, he was arrested for three rapes... [in] his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with dissociative identity disorder. His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it -- wikipedia

Elizabeth Báthory

Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women between 1590 and 1610. Her servants were put on trial and convicted, whereas Báthory was imprisoned within the Castle of Csejte -- wikipedia

NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999

"It was the first time that NATO had used military force without the expressed endorsement of the UN Security Council and thus, international legal approval, which triggered debates over the legitimacy of the intervention" -- wikipedia. Priority request: was it for the highest good?

Saul Alinsky

American community activist and political theorist. Author of "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer" (1971) -- wikipedia

Who or what are ‘the Palestinians?’ (article)

"The 'Palestinians' that we know and love today were an invention of the KGB and their puppet Yasser Arafat, an educated, middle-class Arab of Egyptian origin who devoted his life to murderous anti-American mischief" -- thespectator.com

T/F: Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child / children

Priority request: There are spiritual groups that claim they had a child named Sarah Tamar.