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Taylor Lautner is the subject of a new "reality" series, co-starring Patrick Schwarzenegger: Married to Sharkboy. Kristen Stewart will be playing Traci Lords in an upcoming biopic. Robert Pattinson is best remembered for playing Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter movie. Let's just...

Lindbergh was told that if didn't stop his anti-FDR activities, he would be recalled to active duty, thus forcing him to shut up on pain of court martial. He resigned rather than submit to what was effectively blackmail. After Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh tried to rejoin the military, but all...

Nowhere, I hope. Zombies are even more repulsive than angst-ridden vampires who sparkle in the sunshine.

It's the original CSA-wank, and probably can be found on the bookshelves of many devotees of the Lost Cause.

Actually, almost all of the novel is in that film, including the introduction of Felix Leiter and the torture scene. The closeness to the novel is one of the reason's I really liked the movie.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a children's book. A really, really good book that was made into one of the worst movies of all time. It was not a Bond novel. And at 58, Niven would have been considered too old too play Bond, especially for the movies you listed.

The irony is just ... royal What will Henry VII do about his newly-widowed daughter-in-law? He probably won't send her back to Spain, since that might mean having to part with the dowry. But he is definitely in a hurry to marry her off (probably not Henry). Having a young, widowed foreign...

The colors have nothing to do with ideology. I've read two theories: one has the Republicans as red because Republican because both start with R. The other is less kind; Republicans are more likely to be "rednecks."

The story is "East of Appomattox" by Lee Allred in Alternate Generals III (Baen, 2005). It is heavily implied that British politician with whom Lee meets is Mycroft Holmes. The business with Lincoln aside, I think this is one of the most accurate CSA-victory stories ever written. The...

Does Napoleon IV take the throne after his father abdicates during the Franco-Prussian War, or is there no war and the Bonaparte dynasty continues? Or is there a Bonaparte restoration sometime after 1871 (assuming the Prince Imperial isn't killed in the Zulu War)?

General Elvis Aaron Presley: Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient and commander of U.S. ground forces during Operation Desert Storm

Do you have any sources for this? I know there were confrontations, but AFAIK there was never any actual shooting.