One of the stories in the Collected Works of Baron Munchhausen where he details becoming King of a nameless German kingdom by accidentally handing his horse to the wrong groom in error. After a dalliance with the Queen he absconds after realising she was bald and promptly steals his horse back.
A three-part documentary about the complicated relationship between England and Scotland over the centuries. Part One: Union starts explaining how James VI of Scotland inherited the English crown. Part Two: Separation talks about the separation of 1688, when James II lost England and Ireland to his daughter and son-in-law but kept being James VII of Scotland. And Part Three: Reunion is about the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain with the marriage of Anne II of England and James X of Scotland in 1816.
The nickname Alabama Republicans gave to Lurleen Wallace shortly after her victory in the gubernatorial elections of 1967. Originating from a phrase of an anonymous lawmaker of the Alabama legislature in 1967: "Lurleen Wallace is indeed a queen of our state. But she is only a shadowy imitation of the title; the real power in the Governor's mansion is still George Corley Wallace, and everyone knows that", the nickname was used by state Republicans in order to try to reduce the former governor's influence in Alabama politics. However, following Lurleen Wallace's death in 1968, Geoge Wallace used the phrase to lambaste the opposition for heartlessness and "putrid political opportunism that boggles the mind". On a national level, the image of the "Republican who is willing to crash a soul to get closer to the prize", as well as the sympathy vote helped considerably Wallace's campaign in 1968 in securing Tennessee, Florida and the two Carolinas, thus leading to a split Electoral College and the unprecedented Presidential election of 1968.
As the center of the modern Holy Roman Empire, Berlin is the capital of the German Confederation, and as such has representatives from each of the German states - from Bavaria to Prussia. As there are many such states, Berlin has been called the city with a thousand faces, the joke being that each face looks basically the same.
A documentary about the english settler in northern ireland which after the assimilation act of 1972 (in which irish become a conpulsary language alongside english) made the english settler in northern ireland adept in the irish language they even developed slangs and their own culture because of it.
After the war between the Russians and Chinese in the early 70s, both countries were war torn and struggling. In an effort to gain good publicity, both Burger King and McDonalds sent their food products to citizens suffering due to famine and food shortages in both nations. This caused both restaurants to open up locations in the early 80s with Moscow getting its first McDonalds and Burger King while China only had Burger King until 1987.
Documentary about the Kansan major Rhys Oliver, who fought in the War of Germanic Aggression for the Soviets, itself part of the Second Earth War.
Slogan for Soilent Meat in the fil Make Room! Make Room!, an 1966 Iron Trench-era propaganda mystery/action film from the United States of America, based on a 1932 short story by Kurt Vonnegut. As relevant here, the Soil family was the Confederate State's largest food producer for decades; however, soil erosion and lack of fertility from the Ol'King Cotton brought the population to the edge of starvation. The Soil family invented Soilent, a revolutionary food paste made from plankton and other small sea life; however, the lack of protein was still hazardous, and the population was still growing; hence, the Soil family began purchasing a large number of slaves, leading to the revolutionary new Soilent Meat. As you might have guessed, Soilent Meat was processed directly from the large number of slaves they purchased.
Not to be confused with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Red Sea Scrolls are several extremely unusual coral formations, entirely natural so far as can be determined, the shapes of which noticeably resemble several Hebrew words, notably חַיִים אֶמֶת מוות and יהוה. Though by no means exact matches (Mel Brooks famously described them as "the worst penmanship I've ever seen"), the similarities are considered at least very unusual, and at most evidence of God's intervention.
A documentary about the development and history of the "Vortigern" personal computer.
Video compilation on Vimeo.
you bastard, you beat me to it - but oh well
Loosely patterned on the famed ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah, the collection of tales was written by a Saudi woman to express and expose the truth of how miserable life was in the de facto theocracy of Saudi Arabia for all but the elite, and especially for women, and most especially poor or foreign women, to the point that many saw being trafficked to foreign lands, where they might well end up as brothel slaves, as a probable step up. Naturally, it was banned in that country, and the author only revealed herself after arranging for herself and her family to be smuggled out of the country.
