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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
A part of this video is sponsored by Wren. Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/veritasium. For the first 100 people who sign up, I will personally pay for the first month of your subscription! Massive thanks to Prof. Francois … Continue reading
Largest European Cities(agglomeration) in History 7500 BC – 2020. Top 11 biggest cities in Europe
This video shows the most populated cities(agglomeration) in Europe through history from the first civilizations until nowadays. This video shows the European history about the top 11 largest cities by population in European history from 7000 BC to current year … Continue reading
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like – and how we know
How did Egyptians pronounce the language behind the hieroglyphs? Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_… Become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ From Hatshepsut to Nefertiti to a Coptic Abuna, meet the many forms of the long-lived Egyptian language. Watch as they … Continue reading
A short history of Irish Travellers
Travellers have a long, rich history on the island of Ireland. This animation, written and narrated by Traveller women, aims to dispel some of the common myths around the origins of Travellers and present Travellers’ own story of where they … Continue reading
What Was The Worst Year In Human History? | Answers With Joe
[…] We’re living in trying times, maybe you heard that somewhere? But there have definitely been worse times to be alive. In today’s video, we look back at some of the worst years in human history, including one year that … Continue reading
Why Are There 7 Days In a Week? EXPLAINED
[…] ↓ More info and sources below ↓ […] Why does everyone use a 7 day week, and where did it come from? Where do the names of the days come from? And who can we blame for Mondays? Here’s … Continue reading
The bridge that must legally wobble
“Daly’s Bridge”, in Cork, Ireland, is better known as the Shakey Bridge. Because it shakes. But what happens when a bridge like that has to be repaired and refurbished? • Thanks to Cllr McCarthy: his site is http://corkheritage.ie/ ! Edited … Continue reading
BBC World Service – CrowdScience, How many fossils are there?
Have we already found the last T. rex? Or are there many more to be discovered? The odds of becoming a fossil are vanishingly small. And yet there seem to be an awful lot of them out there. In some … Continue reading
How dualism desacralized nature
More information: http://www.jeremylent.com Jeremy Lent describes how the reductionist Western mindset looks at the world as a resource for exploitation. Lent traces how Greek dualism set a foundation for the split Christian cosmos, and how Descartes turned Christian thought into … Continue reading
60 Euphemisms for Death! | Otherwords
For more word-nerdery, subscribe to Storied!: http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub No topic is as universally avoided–yet universally unavoidable–as DEATH. So, it’s got a lot of euphemisms in virtually every language. Otherwords is a new PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into … Continue reading
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