All of this "Beethoven was secretly black" stuff basically comes down to two claims, neither of which can really be taken seriously:

If you do follow the link to the website, try inspecting the source and the element. Even that seems to have been tinkered with for us to explore.

Eh, it's been done.

I've never read Shape of Things to Come, but I did watch the movie version (from 1936, which Wells himself scripted), and I think there are two parallels you could draw.

The Nazis wouldn't have had any reason to exist if Germany (and Austria-Hungary) had won, because all of continental Europe, and possibly Britain and Russia as well, would have been absorbed into the German Empire. There wouldn't have been a need for a third reich because the second one would've still been riding…

If the Central Powers had succeeded in WWI, there wouldn't have been any need for Hitler to rise to power because then Germany (and Austria-Hungary) would have already conquered all of continental Europe. Even if they never outright defeated England, they would still have conquered France and Belgium, and probably…

Regarding the Celtic and Germanic peoples: what "accomplishments in agriculture, metalwork, and political organization" are you referring to? Not to apologize for the Roman Empire, but the rest of Europe was practically still in the stone age when they began their conquests. These were people living in feudal,…

I'm surprised no one's bringing up the automaton Olimpia from E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann". She certainly fits the description.

You do realize that so much of what people—Vonnegut included—thought they knew about Dresden is bullshit? The actual death count was less than 30,000; nowhere near the 135,000 Vonnegut parrots back, and most of the casualties could have been avoided if the Nazis had equipped the civilians with adequate bomb shelters.…

You do realize that so much of what people—Vonnegut included—thought they knew about Dresden is bullshit? The actual death count was less than 30,000; nowhere near the 135,000 Vonnegut parrots back, and most of the casualties could have been avoided if the Nazis had equipped the civilians with adequate bomb shelters.…