We ranked 10 of the most evil leaders in history and compared them to the dark wizards (and witch) of the wizarding world. The rank was based on how evil they are and their area of influence at the height of their power, also the number of people they killed and the amount of money…
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Near Deadlock: The 6 US presidential elections with narrow margins of victory (with electoral maps and how it happened)
Top 6: Grover Cleveland vs James G. Blaine (1884) Electoral votes: 219-182 The election of 1884 shook up politics in the United States as it brought a Democrat, Grover Cleveland, to the White House for the first time since the administration of James Buchanan a quarter-century earlier. The momentum, especially in the critical state of New York,…
US Elections Special: The past US presidents in their youth (Part 2) from Jimmy Carter’s friendship with a black boy to Gerald Ford as a young football star
Here’s part 2 of our US election special delving into the young lives of the past US presidents from the amazing talent of Dwight Eisenhower in playing cards to the football player days of Gerald Ford to the moment where Ronald Reagan saved 77 people from drowning. Dwight Eisenhower Born on October 14, 1890, in…
Geek God Review 100th article: Our Top 15 Favorite National Flag Designs
This is our 100th article in Geek God Review and because we need something popular to be published, we present this sure hit article that will generate so much clicks Google AdSense will cry. Or not. For our 100th article, we go back to our roots of what this site is all about: unpopular topics…
The US Election Landslides: Top 10 presidential election victories (with electoral maps and how it happened)
Top 10: Franklin Pierce vs Winfield Scott vs John P. Hale (1852) Electoral votes: 254-42-0 Little suspense existed in the Election of 1852, regarding either the outcome or the issues. The Whigs were barely clinging to life, so a Democratic victory was assured from the start. Slavery, the only real issue of the day, was assiduously…
US Elections Special: US presidents in their youth (Part 1) from the boxer days of Theodore Roosevelt in Harvard to Calvin Coolidge’s study of Latin, Greek and other boring stuff
Before they could be all presidential and respectable, let’s take a look on the young life of these past US presidents and see if they too aspired to search for the Deathly Hallows and dominate the world and meet a Gellert Grindelwald or they were just usual teenagers because we cannot all be Albus Dumbledore….
History Features Weekly Wrap-up: The 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, how did it start and what happened?
Here’s Geek God Review’s history features wrap-up for this week from Telegraph’s look back on the real reason for the Great Fire of London 350 years ago to Africa Globe’s stunning article on the 10 other great empires in Africa apart from Ancient Egypt.
Rio 2016 Updates: World champions Germany saved from an early Olympic exit by Arsenal winger Gnabry
Take a look at our 2016 Summer Olympics updates for Day 1 to Day 3: Day 1: Divided Brazil opens the chaotic 2016 Summer Olympics The tone was set at Friday’s opening ceremony, which, despite some delightful sequences, saw rows of empty seats and the deeply unpopular interim Brazilian President’s speech drowned out by an…
Top Books Look Back (Part 3): The Indian stories of good and evil gods in “Ceremony” and navigating the maze in “The Battle of the Labyrinth”
Our Top Books Look Back series of articles is back this week . For our third part of the series, we’re taking a look back to the top books of 2010. In case you missed it, we’re revisiting the book titles which made up our top list for the past ten years. Some of them…
What’s True and What’s Fiction: Traveling Through Time, A Netflix’s Marco Polo Series Review.
The Facts Based on History Almost nothing is known about the childhood of Marco Polo until he was fifteen years old, excepting that he probably spent part of his childhood in Venice.Meanwhile, Marco Polo’s mother died, and an aunt and uncle raised him.He received a good education, learning mercantile subjects including foreign currency, appraising, and…
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