https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Giants

Frederick the Great’s dad was both horribly oppressive when it came to Frederick’s (open secret) homosexuality, and also.. a little bit interested in men himself.

Good king, a hypocrite though.

(He was most likely not gay but had a strange fascination with tall soldiery)

CONTEXT: In 1929, Afghanistan was in a civil war after a guy named Habibullah overthrew the king and proclaimed himself the new king but nobody really recognized his rule as legitimate. This guy named Ali Ahmad Khan twice managed to unite various tribes and had himself proclaimed the legitimate king but both times was defeated by Habibullah’s forces after less than a month. After the second time, Habibullah captured him and executed him by tying him to the front of a cannon and shooting him (or parts of him) out. Habibullah was overthrown and executed a few months later by another guy although he escaped the same grisly punishment.

Although Nietzsche is famous for saying "God is dead" that didn't stop him from showing profound admiration for the Muslim civilization of Iberia, he even argued that it was better than ancient Rome and Greece!

Context: King David Kalakaua of Hawaii became the first foreign ruler to visit the United States in late 1874. The populace was somewhat shocked at the King’s arrival, but grew to become excited at his traveling through the states.

He arrived in DC to meet with President Ulysses Grant at the first State Dinner, where they discussed trade and tax on Hawaiian goods.

7 years later Kalakaua would return to the United States during his World Tour and meet with President Chester Arthur, with whom he shared an uncanny resemblance according to a close friend of Kalakaua who traveled with him

Source:

Genesis 19:8 (KJV)

“I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes.”