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Filthy Secrets of Napoleon’s Sister
More Content to Binge Watch 🥜 ⚔️ BATTLES OF THE WORLD: • How 21 Men Stoppe… 🇧🇪 Battle History: • World Wars History ⛩History of Asia: • History of Asia ☠️ Mafia Inspired Stories • Playlist 🐫 Egyptian History • … Continue reading
A Whale-Oiled Machine | 99% Invisible
In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be found in New Bedford, MA. All this slaughter wasn’t to … Continue reading
Silk Road: The World’s Nervous System
[…] → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKR… This video is #sponsored by Squarespace. Love content? Check out Simon’s other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnD… Warographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9h8… MegaProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wo… SideProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Wn… Into The Shadows: https://www.youtube.com/c/IntotheShadows TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Today … Continue reading
Answering White People’s Questions About Slavery: The London History Show
Oop, I’m afraid I’ve had to shut off comments on this one- I can’t be seeing white supremacists every time I open my channel page. Thanks for understanding! I’m a tour guide in London. If you’d like to get in … Continue reading
London’s Dreadful Visitation: The Black Death and The Great Plague
‘ve been thinking about what happens after a plague recently. Sorry about the audio issues- I’m dealing with some stuff right now and simply don’t have the brainspace to go back and redo it. This is the first video with … Continue reading
Why Ancient People Didn’t See the Color Blue
Here’s a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn’t have a name, can we still see it? Many years ago, the human eye evolved to give us the ability to see about a million colors. That’s a lot. Then … Continue reading
Birth of BASIC
Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language. […]
Every Society Collapses, Here’s How to Survive…
The news is often determined to tell us that we live in uniquely critical times, beset by political disasters and afflicted by terrible crises and that the demise of human civilisation is surely imminent. We are encouraged to view the … Continue reading
Early Japanese Visitor Describes “Baffling” American Culture // (1872) The Iwakura Embassy
[…] xtracts taken from “The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary’s Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe by Kume Kunitake, Graham Healey, Chushichi Tsuzuki, Martin Collcutt, Andrew Cobbing, P. … Continue reading
THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter
Every letter of our alphabet has a story to tell. Join me for an A to Z of A to Z. I’ll explain… 𐦃 The Egyptian hieroglyphics that became our letters 🏛 Why W is called “double U” 🇫🇷 Why … Continue reading
In the 3,700-year footsteps of a king, a barber and a slave | Aeon Essays
Tablet from Gimil-Ninkarrak’s archive for the hire of a labourer, describing Gimil-Ninkarrak as the ‘chief barber’. Courtesy the Louvre Museum, Paris Some 3,700 years ago, an enslaved girl, a barber, and a king crossed paths in a city by the … Continue reading
