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What’s in a names? Jess and Rob are exploring why major cities are called what they’re called and what their names literally mean.
🇩🇪 Why does BERLIN mean ‘swamp’?
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14 Jan 2026
Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break. In this video, we journey – with up-to-the-minute discoveries and insights – through every kind of black hole, from intermediate-mass and supermassive black holes to an assortment of theoretical space oddities, including wormholes, fuzzballs and gravastars.
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00:00 Introduction
02:41 The Basics
06:21 The Monsters
09:17 The Missing Link
11:16 The Primordials
13:24 The Problem
15:34 The Fuzzballs
17:01 Gravastars
18:32 Wormholes
20:27 Conclusion
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The ocean is wide and mysterious, and for hundreds of years, sailors, explorers, and merchants have disappeared beneath the waves or met mysterious ends on their ships. These tales have been passed down and become part of seafaring folklore and superstition. But they all have wild back stories that boggle the mind to this day.
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• 4 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances | A…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Flyi…
https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/Fly…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_…
• Fox’s Peter Pan & the Pirates – Episode 4 …
https://www.historyextra.com/period/g…
https://archive.org/details/dontshoot…
https://archive.org/details/sim_black…
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/red-sunr…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1…
• The Deadliest Company In Human History | A…
https://archive.org/stream/cruiseofhe…
https://www.historyextra.com/period/v…
https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries…
https://www.gochile.cl/en/articles/6-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilote…
http://www.historydefined.net/ghost-s…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa…
/ eli5_how_did_ships_keep_warm
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo….
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/756
https://bermudatrianglecentral.blogsp…
https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries…
https://skittishlibrary.co.uk/the-myt…
/ pretty_sure_ive_solved_the_mystery_of_the_…
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx…
https://tragedies-of-the-sea.blogspot…
https://archive.org/details/Piccolo_1…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-04-2…
/ the_kaz_ii_mystery_three_men_went_missing
• Just One More Thing… | Columbo
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c…
https://www.historyextra.com/period/v…
https://www.hakluyt.com/downloadable_…
https://maritimearchaeologytrust.org/…
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/obj…
https://explorersweb.com/exploration-…
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/12…
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ghost-sh…
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
2:21 – Supernatural Tales
7:54 – Legends
15:38 – Documented History
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