Back then like 99% of civilized population of Europe was Christian lol. I know Christianity actually held back a lot of science back then and groups like the Illuminati had to form to pursue science in secret since people were unable to reconcile that you can have both science and religion. I myself am a Christian however I have the belief that even God has to operate within the laws of physics. (He created those laws if you’re a believer). I know I’m going on a tangent but it’s actually a pretty intriguing philosophical discussion. I think God can do anything on command and so something like bringing someone back from the dead or angels demons or any of the things that can’t be explained through science doesn’t mean it defies our laws it jsut defies our CURRENT laws but there is so much we don’t know. But I mean with string theory and a lot of the cutting edge quantum stuff with multiple dimensions and what not could explain heaven and hell and tangible spiritual warfare (I know that sounds like an oxymoron I just mean like actual spiritual warfare that is going on that isn’t just in our heads but it actually happening all around us just not in our realm) But back to my original point it’s jsut interesting because jsut saying what I jsut said I would have been burnt at the stake for not that long ago. But from what I understand about Newton he himself was kind of limited by this thinking and thought a lot of wacky things trying to use religion to override science. (Not to underplay his role as the original physicist lol) [end rant]
Tbf it's an easy mix-up to make, as Einstein often used the term "God" as an easy-to-understand allegory for the nature of the universe. His famous use of it was "God does not play dice with the universe", meaning that nature couldn't be explained as sheer randomness, equivalent to throwing of a dice.
I had to smile when you pointed out the width of the Delaware and the Mississippi varies depending on where you are. True enough. I’ve often told friends how my dad, to raise money for a charity, walked across America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, when I was a boy. It’s true, he did, but what gets folks is when I point out it only took him two days. You see it was in Central America, he walked across Panama.
Everything I've heard about Diogenes is hilarious. When I was in school and attended Latin classes we translated a story about Diogenes. In it Alexander the Great goes to visit the philospher and upon meeting him declared "If i wasnt Alexander i would wish to be Diogenes". Diogenes replied by saying "If I wasnt Diogenes I would also wish to be Diogenes."
Reminds me of the exchange between Alexander and Parmenion, when they received peace terms from the Persian king Darius. "I would take that deal if I were Alexander." to which Alexander replied "I would take it too, if I were Parmenion.".
The myth of why Einstein failed maths originated in Germany. The grades in school go from 1 (the best possible grade) to 6 (the worst). However, in Switzerland, where he went to high school, the grading goes from 6 (best) to 1 (worst). Thus, when Einstein got a 6 in maths and physics, Germans thought that he must have failed those subjects.
I thought it was meant to make Alexander look a bit like Herakles (Hercules) because that solution fits right in with how the Greek hero solved his problems. Finding the simple solution that others fail to see.
29:18 fun fact: Galileo was actually a catholic christian even though he was at odds with the catholic church. He never intended to dissprove catholicism by proving a heliocentric solar system, he was just facinated by gods creation and thought that science was a part of it.
whcih was the standard for most scientist back in the day. Galileo screwed up on multiple levels. Not least of which was that the pope allowed his book... and Galileo excluded a number of other views on the world (Brahe for example, Keppler) and then proceeded to put the words of the pope into the mouth of hte guy who's obviously written to be wrong in the debate. Galileo himself also wasn't right btw. Yes, he advocated heliocentrism... but not epileptic paths of the planets but perfect circles. Hence why Brahe's version was more appropriate to what the people back then could see and research: They knew the planets didn't travel in perfect circles. He also said that the tides came from the movement of the earth, not the moon, which even in his time was refuted.
On top of that it was not the science in the book that became a problem for Galilei. The church was not that anti science as people are made to believe. The vatikan had an own observatorium and the equatorial mounting of telescopes was invented there in 1610. Galilei published his book in 1632. Pope Urban VIII encouraged him to do so. Galilei was encouraged to write about the Copernican Theory but as a possibility, Galilei was very undiplomatic and the pope easy to enrage. Thats what got him the problem. Galilei was just a kind of troublemaker.
I'm currently working on a thesis project regarding the history between Russia and Ukraine during the early 20th century. This channel has been a huge inspiration in my pursuit of my history degree.
Diogenes was a homeless man who lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great approached Diogenes, Alexander asked if there was anything he could do for this renowned scholar. Diogenes said "You could stop blocking my sunlight."
I guess I'm a bit more skeptical, but I find the story that a king tied a knot and offered his kingdom to anyone who could untie it completely unbelievable before we even get into what Alexander did with it.
lol you here, my TH-cam really is a bubble! But I agree, however it seems winning it at the magical or philosophical lottery at least was a not too uncommon legend to legitimize your (or someone else's) aristocratic rule before "god or the pope said so" became the go to.
A few days ago i told TH-cam to search for your channel using voice search and it accidentally searched for Flogging Through History, which i suppose is what happens when you start acknowledging your bias as a Christian pastor and how epic it was that Jesus whipped the moneychangers out of the temple.
@@randomperson6433one day my friends iphone randomly pulled up siri so he said "f*** you b****" and it pulled up a youtube video of a comedic country breakup song by wheeler walker Jr so we spent a while just listening thru his songs laughing sometimes ur mistakes are better than ur intentions.
One of the reasons I respect your channel as much as I do: you admit your biases and work at remaining objective. You handled the Solomon story perfectly pointing out it's a question of sources and even laying out the problem with the source. There's a LOT of people (Christian and non) who even if they were that honest about bias wouldn't take the time to do it as well.
Maybe he got better but when he said that a science class shouldn't be allowed to define how old the earth is, I realized he is a hypocrite, I like his videos, but I can't take him as fair
The argument that movement is an illusion because in order to walk any distance you'd have to walk half that distance first, which is logically true, and that you can then continue to half that distance for infinity, therefore a person would need to complete an infinite number of actions to get from one place to another, is genius. It's logical and yet clearly nonsense. I love it!
It’s not nonsense at all actually. It actually gives profound knowledge about our universe. The paradox is indeed logically sound, and the only reason it doesn’t hold is because it turns out space can’t infinitely be divided- there is a smallest size to reality. This is literal, it’s not some philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It’s actually quite an astounding conclusion to get to by a single logically thought experiment.
@@jamesmorseman3180 It's actually not logically sound because it doesn't line up with our reality: like you said, space(distance) is not infinitely divisible. If it was, the argument would at least be logically sound.
@@mattm7798 no that’s exactly the point, the paradox is pointing out that one of two things is not logically sound. Given the axioms of the situation in the paradox (space can be infinitely divided) you come to the conclusion that motion isn’t real. We observe motion, we know it’s real, so something in the foundation of the argument does not line up with our reality. In this case it’s what we’re highlighting already-space has a smallest possible size on the smallest scales. This was not known to the ancients, and Zeno’s paradox is an argument by contradiction challenging people to find the flaw in the logic which brings us to that conclusion.
@@jamesmorseman3180 So an argument that is intentionally invalid is still valid because the point of it is to find the thing that makes it invalid? Hmmm, interesting.
29:11 Chris... Einstein was Jewish. He fled Germany for that reason. And he himself said he was more of a pantheist in Spinoza's style, that he believed in a God that was in everything that surrounded us instead of a transcendent ethereal entity.
@@ericbradley9740 Unlikely, as the comment was about how science and religion are not incompatible, and since Chris is a Christian, he was probably thinking of a Christian scientist. I’m tempted to agree with @KeganStucki
Back in the day I remember reading or hearing about Xeno's paradox, with the epilogue that the Romans fed him to the lions, with him supposedly insisting he was safe because his paradox meant the lion would never reach him...
22:37 Although Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity, in his biography _Bejamin Franklin - An American Life_ (2003) the author Walter Isaacson upholds that the experiement did indeed happen, saying: "The delay by Franklin in reporting his kite experiment has led some historians to wonder if he truly did it that summer, and one recent book even charges that his claim was a "hoax." Once again, the meticulous I. Bernard Cohen has done an exhaustive job of historical sleuthing. Drawing on letters, reports, and the fact that lightning rods were erected in Philadelphia that summer, he concludes after forty pages of analysis that "there is no reason to doubt that Franklin had conceived and executed the kite experiment before hearing the news of the French performance." he goes on to say that it was performed "not only by Franklin, but by others," and he adds that "we may with confidence conclude that Franklin performed the lightning kite experiment in June 1752, and that soon after, in later June or July 1752, it was in Philadelphia that the first lightning rods ever to be erected were put in service." "Indeed, it is unreasonable, I think, to believe that Franklin fabricated the June date or other facts of his kite experiment. There is no case of his ever embellishing his scientific achievements, and his description and the account by Priestly contain enough specific color and detail to be convincing. Had he wanted to embellish, Franklin would have claimed that he flew his kite before the French scientist carried out their version of his experiment; instead, he generously admitted that the French scientist were the first to prove his theory. And Franklin's son, with whom he later had a vicious falling-out, never contradicted the well told tale of the kite."
Great Reaction Vid. I follow Simon. I take what he says w/grain of 'salt' (pun intended) but will use it as a launching point to research further. Looking forward to Part 2 🏛📜🧂⛵👑👸🏻👍
The red sea thing regarding Franklin makes sense to me. His people getting let go by their opressive ruler. Maybe even making a point of that oppressive ruler getting taken out in his attempt to stop them.
The first universities in Europe were founded by the church, of course for the study of theology but often also for other sciences and the medicine. That studied doctors were not allowed to make surgeries was due to the lower orders, every student got, like a priest and therefore was not allowed to be responsible for the death of a person. So craftsmen surgeons had to make surgeries or even open bodies for anatomic studies.
“Let them eat cake”. To further clarify, there was a law in Paris at that time. It required that if a bakery ran out of bread, they then had to sell their pastries at the same price as bread so that the poor could afford something to eat.
Thank you for pointing out the issues with someone coming in later and trying to undo the previous understanding! This one is near to my heart because of Prof Chrimes 1967 3 paragraph paper where he says "I don't think Sir Roland DeVeleville was Henry VII's son." It's now been debunked, but because he issued the question everyone is still split on it. But for about 20-25 years it was considered correct, because he used that paper as his source in every single book he wrote afterwards, where he would state "It has been disproven that DeVeleville was H7's son" with an endnote, but that was too his own paper. His opinion was his own source! It did a huge amount of harm as this man was pretty much written out of history books despite being a big part of both Henry VII's reign and Henry VIII's early reign (he fought at the Battle of the Spurs and was in the royal traveling party for the Field of Cloth of Gold FFS). Because he was such an authority in the field his word was taken as gospel but it was an opinion written more than 400 years after DeVeleville's death. There are some who say that unless a previously unknown document shows up where H7 acknowledges him as his son, then he should just be forgotten. It drives me nuts!!
An idea for a "travel" vlog for you. I think you mentioned in a video before that one of your goals is to shoot an M1 Garand. The Fat Electrician has some friends in Texas that may be able to not only fulfill that dream, but give you the opportunity to fire just about every firearm from WWI and WWII along with the stories behind their development and use. Just a fun idea. They host creator range days as well where they invite all kinds of creators to come down and fire just about everything. Also, Drive Tanks in Texas where you can drive and fire a Sherman.
Swiss Person here, about the Einstein thing : the myth about him failing math comes from him getting the grade 6 in math, which is the best grade in Switzerland, where he went to school. In Germany however, 6 is the worst grade one can get, so that’s where I’ve always heard that coming from !
The dude has his Zenos confused. Zeno of Elea died c. 430 BC. Zeno of Citium (the first stoic) was born c. 334 BC. Diogenes the Cynic died c. 323. This is important because the Eleatics were an influence on Plato, and because stoicism was a product of the cosmopolitanism consequent to Alexander's conquests.
The point you made about the varying length of the Potomac from its origin point to its end reminds me of a t-shirt they sell at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy: "I hiked the (width of the) Appalachian Trail".
Also crazy how fast the Mississippi gets big. You go to the twin cities and its a huge bridge like a half mile long to get over the Mississippi. And your only half way down minnesota.
I really enjoy watching your content and often watch your videos with my grandkids. I was also wondering if you have ever seen epic rap battles of history? I think you might enjoy the. Not suggesting that you review them. But the crew does put great care in the lyrics. If you haven't. I would suggest starting with Teddy Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill.
You know what's funny - I saw the original video pop up in my feed earlier today and thought to myself "Oh I wonder if Chris is going to do a reaction to this one!" and then a few hours later here it is! XD
@20:00 My favourite weird Shakespeare misconception is that we're so used to thinking of him as this ancient writer that most people forget that he was in fact pretty modern by the standards of England. All the language that students complain about, like "thou" and "wherefore," that had all fallen out of use more than a century before Shakespeare's time. He was using it as "old timey" language to create a sense of fantasy, exactly the same way the modern fantasy and western writers use older language. Similarly many of the names in his histories had fallen out of use over time and became popular again thanks to his plays. A good example of this is Cordelia, which became a fad name in the 17th century after going out of fashion in the 14th. It was then popularized again in the late 20th thanks to the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I decided to take a philosophy class in college as an elective. The very first day of class the professor used the Zenos Motion Paradox as an example of philosophy. I, in turn, raised my hand. When called upon I said "Can you sign my drop-slip?!"
On the subject of science in the middle ages, look up pope Sylvester II, the guy was a bonafide renaissance man(about 500 years before the Renaissance), among the things he did was studying math in Al-Andalus as a young man.
The story of Zeno's paradox is well known to anyone who's taken calculus class, because it's this (and similar) seeming contradictions that calculus addresses with the concept of infinite series and infinitesimal change.
I can confirm that the Mississippi River is very small at the headwaters. I actually walked it when I was about 12. It's about knee to thigh deep depending on season and rain usually.
As I understand the more recent consensus is that the Event considered "the burning of the library" was not that bad and it was really more a constant decline than a one event destruction.
@@HDreamerthat is probably wrong. The library was a gathering place for scholars and a way to share and learn. That was it's importance. And if it existed now our understanding of history would increase 10fold
@@charlesreid9337 not wouldn't lol it's importance is hugely exaggerated for the myths sake. By the time the library burned down, it was mostly empty and things had been copied. Nothing of value except the building itself was lost. The whole "humanity was sent back centuries" is a complete myth
25:31 On the note of national seals and symbols, Thomas Jefferson originally wanted to put the legendary Germanic warrior brothers Hengist and Horsa on the official seal of the U.S. For those not aware, Hengist and Horsa were the mythical ancestors of the Angles and Saxons who invaded England after the fall of Rome and thus the ancestors of the modern English people.
First time I ever heard that story about the turkey, was the musical 1776. And that they do say that he wanted the national bird to be the turkey. As an impressionable child of about seven, I grew up, thinking that this was true. Proving what you see in media is important, especially from a historical aspect. The Columbus one . They were still teaching this, that Columbus prove the Earth was round when I was in elementary school in the 1980s!
Ah. Simon Whistler. He and his staff do pretty good, usually..until he comes up against his very very vocal biases and preconceptions, especially religiously, where he goes totally fucking off the rails with any level of objectivity.
A few comments on Ceasar; absolutely he would have spoken Greek, it was the language of the Roman patrician class. He would have said 'what is this violence' because a Roman citizens' body, especially that of the consul or dictator was sacrosanct, it was basically a sin to assault him, especially since he was pontifex maximus. He would have pulled his toga over his face because a man's death is his own alone, not to be seen by others, also senators also pulled their togas over their heads for religious ceremonies. Religion and government in the Republic were interlinked.
I appreciate the acknowledgement of bias within the King Solomon section, that said, if you're agreeing that the section in question was likely written centuries later while only potentially being written closer to the date, that should apply the same thoughts as prior sections. You mention you distrust stories written from sources long after everyone who could refute it has passed, and while religion is much more personal, from an objective standpoint I feel it should be given the same relative scrutiny. That said, you acknowledged that bias which is incredibly commendable! Your channel is always a refreshing reminder that there are still people who can recognize biases and still try to look objectively at a subject. Thank you for the great content as always!
During the People Jumping out of Windows and showing the image of people standing in line, I instantly thought of Monty Python. They did do one called People Falling Out O High Buildings, but it's not the exact image I had in mind for it.
You mentioned Sgt. York and the doubt attached to his Medal of Honor actions. I saw a video of a Major who went to the battle site and found artifacts related to those actions that seem to support the battle reports. I regret that I can't remember more about that.
Simon does indeed have a ton of channels. However, 3 for sure (that I know of) are no longer his... TopTensNet, Geographics, and Biographics are owned by the company he previously worked for. He still does videos like that, just under different channel names now (such as SideProjects), and under his own banner.
@@svenrio8521 For all intents and purposes, he very well could. I don't really 100% remember the specifics beyond the lady who owns/co-owns them now inherited them from her father, and her and Simon had a falling out. There's a video out about it, but that's what I remember about what was said. There may be more I don't quite remember.
The Einstein failing math thing actually does have an origin of truth even though it’s wrong. His school gave number grades, with high numbers being the best grade and low being the worst (this might be backwards). At one point when Einstein was there they switched it, so he want from the top (say a 10) to the new top (say a 1). Someone saw this and thought that meant he failed even though he didn’t
It is the difference in grading systems in Germany and Switzerland. In both countries there are six Grades from 1 to 6. However in Germany one is the best Grade and six the worst. In Switzerland six is the best grade and one the worst. Since Einstein went to school in Switzerland his six in mathematics would look to Germans as if he had failed maths.
So not only was Diogenes a cynic and philosopher but he is a stand-up comedian. Someone should make a movie on all the things supposedly attributed to him as it would make a great comedy. I can really see John Cleese and Eric Idle doing it in the Monty Python style.
Hey Chris! I just saw a video that I believe would be an amazing VTH reaction. You may have been recommended/seen it, but it's called "The Problem With the USA's Borders" by Atlas Pro. It's total gem, his best video IMO...but I have no doubt you would take to another level.
I had a great time meeting you at the Gettysburg Film Festival about a month ago. It was so great to meet you and I promise we will meet again and I probably will do a tour or two soon!
@VloggingThroughHistory I am a history buff and run a coin business. He makes the comment that the first silver dollar was make in 1795. First, that's incorrect. The first issue was 1794. More importantly, Spanish colonial 8 reales, which were heavily used in Colonial America and early America (pre 1853), are often referred to Spanish dollars.
there's a documentary called "cracking the shakespeare code" which is great. sir francis bacon, among his many writings, wrote "new atlantis" which inspired the creation of the royal society. the 'baconian method' was the clearest expression of the scientific method. he was also involved in the foundation of the british colony in newfoundland (around the same time as jamestown). many have argued he should be included among the founding fathers of the united states as well.
16:50 I don’t understand why this story is in here. The account is entirely plausible and impossible to prove one way or another. Now I have to wonder what else is his opinion and not a fact and why he’s trying to convince me it’s fact.
@vloggingthroughhistory Hi non American here, I beleive i heard the George Washington and the cherry tree story before, but i thought it was about Abraham Lincoln giving him the nickname "Honest Abe", is there a simler story or is this a case of Mandela effect.
Long time ago, my dad got me a "Swiss army knife" or just a cheap folding blade with a red handle, tweezers, and scissors. It was the coolest, and I was almost certainly 6, but dad says to me that it was for carving sticks, and not carving into trees. About a week into owning the knife, or days, or even a month, I was a "baby" and times passed... So, I am through a corn field (The field is huge, so I went in the corn and came out) and on the other side of the field is a ditch, and along the ditch are sumac, and brown leafy trees, not big but not scrubs like the sumac is. I went to those trees, found a good one and carved a sailboat into it. No one ever found out, so no one ever asked, so I also never told a lie. I have never told this story, and 1993 was a long time ago so I'm pretty sure I won't get spanked and sent to my room for what I did.
about that last one, I went to french high school where we studied the revolution intensively (probably just as much as americans study theirs) in history class, and I've never heard any of my professors say that she said "may they eat cake" or anything like that. However Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a prominent figure of the Lumières philosophical movement at that time and it would make sense that he would make up that stuff to show how disconnected the monarchy was.
I don’t really watch their stuff anymore but their channel was the first channel I got into on TH-cam and hooked me in. Mostly because I found out so much of my beliefs about the world were not true.
35:10 Another thing is that we look back on the stock market crash with hindsight as to what came next. No one in October 1929 would have known just how bad it would get and the market actually recovered for a time in 1930. It was only the acceleration of the bank failures in the later half of 1930 into 1931 that tipped the country into what would become known as the Great Depression.
My grandmother's uncle jumped off a bridge after losing money during the Depression, just not in 1929 but in 1933. Her aunt's husband shot himself after losing a lot in investments as well. So, I always took it as a fact that people committed suicide during the Depression after losing money.
18:56 Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team during his sophomore year. He was 5'11. Later on during that summer he would grow to his famous height, but it still goes to show that even a legend had his failures.
Just wanted to note, Einstein was jewish, why he also left Germany before the WW2. Actually there where german scientist trying to deproof his physics, becouse its "jewish physics"
It is quite interesting that on the one hand you have a healthy skepticism when it comes to depictions or descriptions that are written after the main characters have died. BUT as a Christian you obviously don't question stories that include elements of Christian teaching even if they are also written long after the main characters are dead or the events have happened.
I don't think you understood me correctly. My issue is with depictions written long after that specifically contradict contemporary or near-contemporary accounts. Big difference.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Point taken 🙂. But not everyone was able to write anything at all back then, and just like today, many "writers" have a special purpose for their description. As the video shows, the description of NERO had a very specific purpose that had nothing to do with the event. I think it is an interesting phenomenon that in relatively modern times we have a very broad approach of testimony about events from a great many sources. My main interest has for many years been WW2, but also from WW1 we have an abundance of descriptions from ordinary people whose task it was not to describe events with a special purpose. Depictions and descriptions that come from so many different sources have, in my eyes, a completely different weight than stories that are many thousands of years old. But thank you for your videos :-) We live in a time where there are some who are interested in making the truth fleeting, so I have great respect for those who try to hold on to the fact that we may be entitled to different opinions but that the facts are NOT is a question of what we think.
12:14 I WAS JUST THINKING, man Diogenes must’ve had a field day with that one. Diogenes would punch you in your face and when you tried to press charges, he would simply say “your honor, he charges me with an impossible act!”
To better understand Zeno's paradox of motion, I suggest reading Infinitesimal by Amir Alexander. It's about the history of indivisibles in mathematics and how basically Zeno's paradox was at the heart of some huge mathematical arguments during the 17th century. Better way to put the paradox would be something like this: Imagine a finite line. Divide the line in half. Divide the two parts in half, and so on and so on infinite times. Now your line has infinite number of parts. Do these parts have a value? If these parts have a value, then the line should be infinitely long and not finite. If the parts don't have value, then the line also doesn't have a value and can't exist.
Respectfully, while a lot of important scientists (Galileo, Copernicus, Mendel, Lamaitre) Einstein really wasn't one of them. He was born to a Jewish family and raised Jewish. As an adult he was not really religious at all. The only times he really talked about God was in the Spinoza sense as a metaphor for the principles of physics the universe operates on closer to pantheism if anything.
Actually, according to Walter Isaacson’s Einstein biography, he DID see God as more than just a simple metaphor - he believed in a vague universal intelligence that established natural law and order but not a God that you could personally interact with. He actually had very complicated and sometimes conflicting views of God and religion. Ones that defied any kind of firm label.
Zeno is the original physicist; technically right; you can’t ever actually get to 0 distance on a journey. Engineers temper the physicists by saying “close enough”
Note: I definitely meant to say NEWTON was a Christian, not Einstein. My bad. Einstein definitely was not.
Back then like 99% of civilized population of Europe was Christian lol.
I know Christianity actually held back a lot of science back then and groups like the Illuminati had to form to pursue science in secret since people were unable to reconcile that you can have both science and religion.
I myself am a Christian however I have the belief that even God has to operate within the laws of physics. (He created those laws if you’re a believer).
I know I’m going on a tangent but it’s actually a pretty intriguing philosophical discussion.
I think God can do anything on command and so something like bringing someone back from the dead or angels demons or any of the things that can’t be explained through science doesn’t mean it defies our laws it jsut defies our CURRENT laws but there is so much we don’t know. But I mean with string theory and a lot of the cutting edge quantum stuff with multiple dimensions and what not could explain heaven and hell and tangible spiritual warfare (I know that sounds like an oxymoron I just mean like actual spiritual warfare that is going on that isn’t just in our heads but it actually happening all around us just not in our realm)
But back to my original point it’s jsut interesting because jsut saying what I jsut said I would have been burnt at the stake for not that long ago.
But from what I understand about Newton he himself was kind of limited by this thinking and thought a lot of wacky things trying to use religion to override science. (Not to underplay his role as the original physicist lol)
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I was getting ready to type my disgruntled comment, thank you for the honesty. xD
Tbf it's an easy mix-up to make, as Einstein often used the term "God" as an easy-to-understand allegory for the nature of the universe. His famous use of it was "God does not play dice with the universe", meaning that nature couldn't be explained as sheer randomness, equivalent to throwing of a dice.
I was about to comment on that part, but really appreciate your honesty and clarifying that you were talking about Isaac Newton and not Einstein
Yeah, Einstein was Jewish.
“I cannot tell a lie.
I’m gonna sell it to the highest bidder”
😂😂😂 best quote ever
that quote itself should go down in history haha
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It definitely makes me wonder where the coin is now, but I suspect that a rich guy owns it
I had to smile when you pointed out the width of the Delaware and the Mississippi varies depending on where you are. True enough. I’ve often told friends how my dad, to raise money for a charity, walked across America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, when I was a boy. It’s true, he did, but what gets folks is when I point out it only took him two days. You see it was in Central America, he walked across Panama.
That is epic! 😂😂😂
I actually went to the source of the Mississippi and stepped across it 😂😂
Everything I've heard about Diogenes is hilarious. When I was in school and attended Latin classes we translated a story about Diogenes. In it Alexander the Great goes to visit the philospher and upon meeting him declared "If i wasnt Alexander i would wish to be Diogenes". Diogenes replied by saying "If I wasnt Diogenes I would also wish to be Diogenes."
Reminds me of the exchange between Alexander and Parmenion, when they received peace terms from the Persian king Darius. "I would take that deal if I were Alexander." to which Alexander replied "I would take it too, if I were Parmenion.".
And Alexander asked at the end of the talk: "can i do anything for you?" and Diogenes answered "get out of my sun".
That we're talking about the last words spoken by someone assassinated almost 2,070 years ago is amazing to me.
The myth of why Einstein failed maths originated in Germany. The grades in school go from 1 (the best possible grade) to 6 (the worst). However, in Switzerland, where he went to high school, the grading goes from 6 (best) to 1 (worst). Thus, when Einstein got a 6 in maths and physics, Germans thought that he must have failed those subjects.
Plus he did fail entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnic, supposedly because it was in French.
I always interpreted the Gordian Knot being an example of how Alexander thought outside the box, not that he solved his problems with brute force.
Yeah, I always thought the point was that sometimes people get so caught up in the esoteric that they ignore the obvious answer.
Me too!
I thought it was meant to make Alexander look a bit like Herakles (Hercules) because that solution fits right in with how the Greek hero solved his problems. Finding the simple solution that others fail to see.
That is the point of the story. But the reality is that Alexander did solve all his problems with force
18:20 Einstein did fail an entrance exam for a Swiss Polytechnic Institute. (He failed the French portion of the exam)
29:18 fun fact: Galileo was actually a catholic christian even though he was at odds with the catholic church. He never intended to dissprove catholicism by proving a heliocentric solar system, he was just facinated by gods creation and thought that science was a part of it.
whcih was the standard for most scientist back in the day. Galileo screwed up on multiple levels. Not least of which was that the pope allowed his book... and Galileo excluded a number of other views on the world (Brahe for example, Keppler) and then proceeded to put the words of the pope into the mouth of hte guy who's obviously written to be wrong in the debate. Galileo himself also wasn't right btw. Yes, he advocated heliocentrism... but not epileptic paths of the planets but perfect circles. Hence why Brahe's version was more appropriate to what the people back then could see and research: They knew the planets didn't travel in perfect circles. He also said that the tides came from the movement of the earth, not the moon, which even in his time was refuted.
On top of that it was not the science in the book that became a problem for Galilei. The church was not that anti science as people are made to believe. The vatikan had an own observatorium and the equatorial mounting of telescopes was invented there in 1610. Galilei published his book in 1632. Pope Urban VIII encouraged him to do so. Galilei was encouraged to write about the Copernican Theory but as a possibility, Galilei was very undiplomatic and the pope easy to enrage. Thats what got him the problem. Galilei was just a kind of troublemaker.
I'm currently working on a thesis project regarding the history between Russia and Ukraine during the early 20th century. This channel has been a huge inspiration in my pursuit of my history degree.
Diogenes was a homeless man who lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great approached Diogenes, Alexander asked if there was anything he could do for this renowned scholar. Diogenes said "You could stop blocking my sunlight."
I guess I'm a bit more skeptical, but I find the story that a king tied a knot and offered his kingdom to anyone who could untie it completely unbelievable before we even get into what Alexander did with it.
Agreed
lol you here, my TH-cam really is a bubble!
But I agree, however it seems winning it at the magical or philosophical lottery at least was a not too uncommon legend to legitimize your (or someone else's) aristocratic rule before "god or the pope said so" became the go to.
A few days ago i told TH-cam to search for your channel using voice search and it accidentally searched for Flogging Through History, which i suppose is what happens when you start acknowledging your bias as a Christian pastor and how epic it was that Jesus whipped the moneychangers out of the temple.
When your mistakes are more entertaining than your intentions… 😂
Oh man. NOT TODAY SATAN!
@@randomperson6433one day my friends iphone randomly pulled up siri so he said "f*** you b****" and it pulled up a youtube video of a comedic country breakup song by wheeler walker Jr so we spent a while just listening thru his songs laughing sometimes ur mistakes are better than ur intentions.
😂😂😂
@@dobber43 I feel like that should be a comedy sketch!
I found this channel just now and I also just finished my Masters in History. Great timing and great video!
One of the reasons I respect your channel as much as I do: you admit your biases and work at remaining objective. You handled the Solomon story perfectly pointing out it's a question of sources and even laying out the problem with the source. There's a LOT of people (Christian and non) who even if they were that honest about bias wouldn't take the time to do it as well.
I think it's hard to square history and religion because if you only believe what people say is true...you wouldn't need historians.
Maybe he got better but when he said that a science class shouldn't be allowed to define how old the earth is, I realized he is a hypocrite, I like his videos, but I can't take him as fair
These are great. Sam O Nella did a great episode about Diogenes. Definitely worth checking out haha
I'm not a reaction video guy but I'm a subscriber because you mostly add context and I appreciate that!
This is definitely probably one of the best channels on TH-cam👍
I love the portrayal of the whole "turkey vs eagle" in the movie "1776" ...
The argument that movement is an illusion because in order to walk any distance you'd have to walk half that distance first, which is logically true, and that you can then continue to half that distance for infinity, therefore a person would need to complete an infinite number of actions to get from one place to another, is genius. It's logical and yet clearly nonsense. I love it!
True...except there is a point at which a distance can no longer be cut in half, thus it is not an infinite number of events.
It’s not nonsense at all actually. It actually gives profound knowledge about our universe. The paradox is indeed logically sound, and the only reason it doesn’t hold is because it turns out space can’t infinitely be divided- there is a smallest size to reality. This is literal, it’s not some philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It’s actually quite an astounding conclusion to get to by a single logically thought experiment.
@@jamesmorseman3180 It's actually not logically sound because it doesn't line up with our reality: like you said, space(distance) is not infinitely divisible. If it was, the argument would at least be logically sound.
@@mattm7798 no that’s exactly the point, the paradox is pointing out that one of two things is not logically sound. Given the axioms of the situation in the paradox (space can be infinitely divided) you come to the conclusion that motion isn’t real. We observe motion, we know it’s real, so something in the foundation of the argument does not line up with our reality. In this case it’s what we’re highlighting already-space has a smallest possible size on the smallest scales. This was not known to the ancients, and Zeno’s paradox is an argument by contradiction challenging people to find the flaw in the logic which brings us to that conclusion.
@@jamesmorseman3180 So an argument that is intentionally invalid is still valid because the point of it is to find the thing that makes it invalid? Hmmm, interesting.
Love my Simon Whistler! All of his channels are great!
"Ouch!" - Julius Caesar
29:11 Chris... Einstein was Jewish. He fled Germany for that reason. And he himself said he was more of a pantheist in Spinoza's style, that he believed in a God that was in everything that surrounded us instead of a transcendent ethereal entity.
My guess is he meant to say deist. As he believed in some concept of God.
I was thinking it may have just been a Fruedian slip. Perhaps he was thinking of Newton, or someone, and Einstein came out.
@@Key_gun Might’ve been
@@ericbradley9740 Unlikely, as the comment was about how science and religion are not incompatible, and since Chris is a Christian, he was probably thinking of a Christian scientist. I’m tempted to agree with @KeganStucki
I definitely meant to say Newton there.
Back in the day I remember reading or hearing about Xeno's paradox, with the epilogue that the Romans fed him to the lions, with him supposedly insisting he was safe because his paradox meant the lion would never reach him...
Calculus says he's lion food
22:37 Although Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity, in his biography _Bejamin Franklin - An American Life_ (2003) the author Walter Isaacson upholds that the experiement did indeed happen, saying:
"The delay by Franklin in reporting his kite experiment has led some historians to wonder if he truly did it that summer, and one recent book even charges that his claim was a "hoax." Once again, the meticulous I. Bernard Cohen has done an exhaustive job of historical sleuthing. Drawing on letters, reports, and the fact that lightning rods were erected in Philadelphia that summer, he concludes after forty pages of analysis that "there is no reason to doubt that Franklin had conceived and executed the kite experiment before hearing the news of the French performance." he goes on to say that it was performed "not only by Franklin, but by others," and he adds that "we may with confidence conclude that Franklin performed the lightning kite experiment in June 1752, and that soon after, in later June or July 1752, it was in Philadelphia that the first lightning rods ever to be erected were put in service."
"Indeed, it is unreasonable, I think, to believe that Franklin fabricated the June date or other facts of his kite experiment. There is no case of his ever embellishing his scientific achievements, and his description and the account by Priestly contain enough specific color and detail to be convincing. Had he wanted to embellish, Franklin would have claimed that he flew his kite before the French scientist carried out their version of his experiment; instead, he generously admitted that the French scientist were the first to prove his theory. And Franklin's son, with whom he later had a vicious falling-out, never contradicted the well told tale of the kite."
Long after you are dead, someone is gonna come forward and publish a book claiming you actually had a YT channel dedicated to India’s history
Great Reaction Vid. I follow Simon. I take what he says w/grain of 'salt' (pun intended) but will use it as a launching point to research further. Looking forward to Part 2 🏛📜🧂⛵👑👸🏻👍
I agree but he does ..well his writer/researcher does put in a lot of effort to be factual. Which is ludicrously rare
The red sea thing regarding Franklin makes sense to me. His people getting let go by their opressive ruler. Maybe even making a point of that oppressive ruler getting taken out in his attempt to stop them.
The first universities in Europe were founded by the church, of course for the study of theology but often also for other sciences and the medicine.
That studied doctors were not allowed to make surgeries was due to the lower orders, every student got, like a priest and therefore was not allowed to be responsible for the death of a person.
So craftsmen surgeons had to make surgeries or even open bodies for anatomic studies.
Definitely, probably, going to watch part II.
Damn my jaw dropped when I heard that the Niña and La Pinta weren’t the real ship names 😂
I love watching VTH getting sucked farther and farther into the Whistlerverse and not even realize it's happening.
“Let them eat cake”. To further clarify, there was a law in Paris at that time. It required that if a bakery ran out of bread, they then had to sell their pastries at the same price as bread so that the poor could afford something to eat.
Is that really true- about the bread/cake ect…… being a law when Marie Antoinette made her favorite statement “let them eat cake”.
@@ml8028I have a BA in history. I haven’t looked at first hand sources, but that’s what my professor told me.
That actually makes it not a stupid quip, but more of a sensible policy that I guess was too little too late.
Think about today’s news and how a sound bite gets taken out of context, distorted, repeated, etc. Like Al Gore saying he invented the internet.
Posting things doesn't make them true.
Thank you for pointing out the issues with someone coming in later and trying to undo the previous understanding! This one is near to my heart because of Prof Chrimes 1967 3 paragraph paper where he says "I don't think Sir Roland DeVeleville was Henry VII's son." It's now been debunked, but because he issued the question everyone is still split on it. But for about 20-25 years it was considered correct, because he used that paper as his source in every single book he wrote afterwards, where he would state "It has been disproven that DeVeleville was H7's son" with an endnote, but that was too his own paper. His opinion was his own source! It did a huge amount of harm as this man was pretty much written out of history books despite being a big part of both Henry VII's reign and Henry VIII's early reign (he fought at the Battle of the Spurs and was in the royal traveling party for the Field of Cloth of Gold FFS). Because he was such an authority in the field his word was taken as gospel but it was an opinion written more than 400 years after DeVeleville's death. There are some who say that unless a previously unknown document shows up where H7 acknowledges him as his son, then he should just be forgotten.
It drives me nuts!!
An idea for a "travel" vlog for you. I think you mentioned in a video before that one of your goals is to shoot an M1 Garand.
The Fat Electrician has some friends in Texas that may be able to not only fulfill that dream, but give you the opportunity to fire just about every firearm from WWI and WWII along with the stories behind their development and use.
Just a fun idea. They host creator range days as well where they invite all kinds of creators to come down and fire just about everything.
Also, Drive Tanks in Texas where you can drive and fire a Sherman.
Swiss Person here, about the Einstein thing : the myth about him failing math comes from him getting the grade 6 in math, which is the best grade in Switzerland, where he went to school. In Germany however, 6 is the worst grade one can get, so that’s where I’ve always heard that coming from !
The cherry tree: Written after his death AND in a "reader" book intended for the purpose of teaching children English.
30:59 "I've known the story about the horse" ... That is not a sentence you expect to hear often
Socrates last words "I drank what"
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The dude has his Zenos confused. Zeno of Elea died c. 430 BC. Zeno of Citium (the first stoic) was born c. 334 BC. Diogenes the Cynic died c. 323. This is important because the Eleatics were an influence on Plato, and because stoicism was a product of the cosmopolitanism consequent to Alexander's conquests.
I jumped over the Mississippi River in Minnesota! I live across the street from it in Louisiana... BIG difference!
Simon pronouncing Brute as one syllable is cracking me up.
The Greek phrase Caesar supposedly said is “Kai su, teknon?”
I can't believe Tech N9ne would do this. 😂
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
The point you made about the varying length of the Potomac from its origin point to its end reminds me of a t-shirt they sell at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy: "I hiked the (width of the) Appalachian Trail".
Also crazy how fast the Mississippi gets big. You go to the twin cities and its a huge bridge like a half mile long to get over the Mississippi. And your only half way down minnesota.
I really enjoy watching your content and often watch your videos with my grandkids. I was also wondering if you have ever seen epic rap battles of history? I think you might enjoy the. Not suggesting that you review them. But the crew does put great care in the lyrics. If you haven't. I would suggest starting with Teddy Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill.
You know what's funny - I saw the original video pop up in my feed earlier today and thought to myself "Oh I wonder if Chris is going to do a reaction to this one!" and then a few hours later here it is! XD
I watched it this morning. 8 hours later, the algorithm gods shined on me.
@20:00 My favourite weird Shakespeare misconception is that we're so used to thinking of him as this ancient writer that most people forget that he was in fact pretty modern by the standards of England. All the language that students complain about, like "thou" and "wherefore," that had all fallen out of use more than a century before Shakespeare's time. He was using it as "old timey" language to create a sense of fantasy, exactly the same way the modern fantasy and western writers use older language.
Similarly many of the names in his histories had fallen out of use over time and became popular again thanks to his plays. A good example of this is Cordelia, which became a fad name in the 17th century after going out of fashion in the 14th. It was then popularized again in the late 20th thanks to the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Are we calling Nero a lyre? Or are we calling him a lyre player? Is there any record we can use as a player for those reports?
I decided to take a philosophy class in college as an elective. The very first day of class the professor used the Zenos Motion Paradox as an example of philosophy. I, in turn, raised my hand. When called upon I said "Can you sign my drop-slip?!"
On the subject of science in the middle ages, look up pope Sylvester II, the guy was a bonafide renaissance man(about 500 years before the Renaissance), among the things he did was studying math in Al-Andalus as a young man.
The story of Zeno's paradox is well known to anyone who's taken calculus class, because it's this (and similar) seeming contradictions that calculus addresses with the concept of infinite series and infinitesimal change.
I can confirm that the Mississippi River is very small at the headwaters. I actually walked it when I was about 12. It's about knee to thigh deep depending on season and rain usually.
The burning of the library of alexandria truly is one of the greatest tragedys in history.
As I understand the more recent consensus is that the Event considered "the burning of the library" was not that bad and it was really more a constant decline than a one event destruction.
Not really. It's impact is greatly over exaggerated
@@rightinthedome9973stating things doesn't make them true
@@HDreamerthat is probably wrong. The library was a gathering place for scholars and a way to share and learn. That was it's importance. And if it existed now our understanding of history would increase 10fold
@@charlesreid9337 not wouldn't lol it's importance is hugely exaggerated for the myths sake. By the time the library burned down, it was mostly empty and things had been copied. Nothing of value except the building itself was lost. The whole "humanity was sent back centuries" is a complete myth
25:31 On the note of national seals and symbols, Thomas Jefferson originally wanted to put the legendary Germanic warrior brothers Hengist and Horsa on the official seal of the U.S. For those not aware, Hengist and Horsa were the mythical ancestors of the Angles and Saxons who invaded England after the fall of Rome and thus the ancestors of the modern English people.
Enjoying the video, keep it up!
I like that in HBO's Rome they didn't have Caesar say the Shakespeare line.
Congratulations on 444K subscribers
First time I ever heard that story about the turkey, was the musical 1776. And that they do say that he wanted the national bird to be the turkey. As an impressionable child of about seven, I grew up, thinking that this was true. Proving what you see in media is important, especially from a historical aspect.
The Columbus one . They were still teaching this, that Columbus prove the Earth was round when I was in elementary school in the 1980s!
This was a great idea i love seeing historical rumors get disproven
Ah. Simon Whistler. He and his staff do pretty good, usually..until he comes up against his very very vocal biases and preconceptions, especially religiously, where he goes totally fucking off the rails with any level of objectivity.
A few comments on Ceasar; absolutely he would have spoken Greek, it was the language of the Roman patrician class. He would have said 'what is this violence' because a Roman citizens' body, especially that of the consul or dictator was sacrosanct, it was basically a sin to assault him, especially since he was pontifex maximus.
He would have pulled his toga over his face because a man's death is his own alone, not to be seen by others, also senators also pulled their togas over their heads for religious ceremonies. Religion and government in the Republic were interlinked.
I appreciate the acknowledgement of bias within the King Solomon section, that said, if you're agreeing that the section in question was likely written centuries later while only potentially being written closer to the date, that should apply the same thoughts as prior sections.
You mention you distrust stories written from sources long after everyone who could refute it has passed, and while religion is much more personal, from an objective standpoint I feel it should be given the same relative scrutiny.
That said, you acknowledged that bias which is incredibly commendable! Your channel is always a refreshing reminder that there are still people who can recognize biases and still try to look objectively at a subject. Thank you for the great content as always!
During the People Jumping out of Windows and showing the image of people standing in line, I instantly thought of Monty Python. They did do one called People Falling Out O High Buildings, but it's not the exact image I had in mind for it.
It'll be Parkinson next...
You mentioned Sgt. York and the doubt attached to his Medal of Honor actions. I saw a video of a Major who went to the battle site and found artifacts related to those actions that seem to support the battle reports. I regret that I can't remember more about that.
Simon does indeed have a ton of channels. However, 3 for sure (that I know of) are no longer his... TopTensNet, Geographics, and Biographics are owned by the company he previously worked for. He still does videos like that, just under different channel names now (such as SideProjects), and under his own banner.
I thought Simon did own the company, just that he no longer appears on those channels?
@@svenrio8521 For all intents and purposes, he very well could. I don't really 100% remember the specifics beyond the lady who owns/co-owns them now inherited them from her father, and her and Simon had a falling out. There's a video out about it, but that's what I remember about what was said. There may be more I don't quite remember.
They were never his 😆
The Einstein failing math thing actually does have an origin of truth even though it’s wrong. His school gave number grades, with high numbers being the best grade and low being the worst (this might be backwards). At one point when Einstein was there they switched it, so he want from the top (say a 10) to the new top (say a 1). Someone saw this and thought that meant he failed even though he didn’t
It is the difference in grading systems in Germany and Switzerland. In both countries there are six Grades from 1 to 6.
However in Germany one is the best Grade and six the worst. In Switzerland six is the best grade and one the worst.
Since Einstein went to school in Switzerland his six in mathematics would look to Germans as if he had failed maths.
So not only was Diogenes a cynic and philosopher but he is a stand-up comedian. Someone should make a movie on all the things supposedly attributed to him as it would make a great comedy. I can really see John Cleese and Eric Idle doing it in the Monty Python style.
Hey Chris! I just saw a video that I believe would be an amazing VTH reaction. You may have been recommended/seen it, but it's called "The Problem With the USA's Borders" by Atlas Pro. It's total gem, his best video IMO...but I have no doubt you would take to another level.
We tend to forget that political satire has been around for a very long time. Things like “let them eat cake” makes perfect sense this way.
Brother you are so good at this!
I had a great time meeting you at the Gettysburg Film Festival about a month ago. It was so great to meet you and I promise we will meet again and I probably will do a tour or two soon!
@VloggingThroughHistory
I am a history buff and run a coin business. He makes the comment that the first silver dollar was make in 1795. First, that's incorrect. The first issue was 1794.
More importantly, Spanish colonial 8 reales, which were heavily used in Colonial America and early America (pre 1853), are often referred to Spanish dollars.
Three! Love your videos!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one catching themself saying "definitely probably."
Thank you guys, I would love a coop with Schwerpunkt! Rock on
21:32 every true Roman scholar knows that Caesar's last words were really "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"
there's a documentary called "cracking the shakespeare code" which is great. sir francis bacon, among his many writings, wrote "new atlantis" which inspired the creation of the royal society. the 'baconian method' was the clearest expression of the scientific method. he was also involved in the foundation of the british colony in newfoundland (around the same time as jamestown). many have argued he should be included among the founding fathers of the united states as well.
Also wasn't the heliocentric model first put forward by copernicus who was also a member of the clergy
29:12 Did you mean Issac Newton?
I think he did
That was my thought.
Yes, I definitely meant Newton.
on the subject on skipping stones. Mark Rober has a video on how you can skip a stone upwards of 20 times. my record is 22.
16:50 I don’t understand why this story is in here. The account is entirely plausible and impossible to prove one way or another. Now I have to wonder what else is his opinion and not a fact and why he’s trying to convince me it’s fact.
Diagnoses is basically the most based homeless man ever.
@vloggingthroughhistory Hi non American here, I beleive i heard the George Washington and the cherry tree story before, but i thought it was about Abraham Lincoln giving him the nickname
"Honest Abe", is there a simler story or is this a case of Mandela effect.
Long time ago, my dad got me a "Swiss army knife" or just a cheap folding blade with a red handle, tweezers, and scissors.
It was the coolest, and I was almost certainly 6, but dad says to me that it was for carving sticks, and not carving into trees.
About a week into owning the knife, or days, or even a month, I was a "baby" and times passed... So, I am through a corn field (The field is huge, so I went in the corn and came out) and on the other side of the field is a ditch, and along the ditch are sumac, and brown leafy trees, not big but not scrubs like the sumac is.
I went to those trees, found a good one and carved a sailboat into it. No one ever found out, so no one ever asked, so I also never told a lie.
I have never told this story, and 1993 was a long time ago so I'm pretty sure I won't get spanked and sent to my room for what I did.
about that last one, I went to french high school where we studied the revolution intensively (probably just as much as americans study theirs) in history class, and I've never heard any of my professors say that she said "may they eat cake" or anything like that. However Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a prominent figure of the Lumières philosophical movement at that time and it would make sense that he would make up that stuff to show how disconnected the monarchy was.
19:10 Also with that particular Lincoln/Kennedy comparison, there's no city in Maryland called Monroe. At least I don't think there is .
I don’t really watch their stuff anymore but their channel was the first channel I got into on TH-cam and hooked me in. Mostly because I found out so much of my beliefs about the world were not true.
Keeping your mind open and doing research is good for you. Just stating, "It's not my belief" is a perfect example of a closed mind.
Achu: This ain't exactly the Mississippi
Chris: Hold my beer
35:10 Another thing is that we look back on the stock market crash with hindsight as to what came next. No one in October 1929 would have known just how bad it would get and the market actually recovered for a time in 1930. It was only the acceleration of the bank failures in the later half of 1930 into 1931 that tipped the country into what would become known as the Great Depression.
My grandmother's uncle jumped off a bridge after losing money during the Depression, just not in 1929 but in 1933. Her aunt's husband shot himself after losing a lot in investments as well. So, I always took it as a fact that people committed suicide during the Depression after losing money.
18:56 Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team during his sophomore year. He was 5'11.
Later on during that summer he would grow to his famous height, but it still goes to show that even a legend had his failures.
Just wanted to note, Einstein was jewish, why he also left Germany before the WW2. Actually there where german scientist trying to deproof his physics, becouse its "jewish physics"
I meant Newton.
It is quite interesting that on the one hand you have a healthy skepticism when it comes to depictions or descriptions that are written after the main characters have died. BUT as a Christian you obviously don't question stories that include elements of Christian teaching even if they are also written long after the main characters are dead or the events have happened.
I don't think you understood me correctly. My issue is with depictions written long after that specifically contradict contemporary or near-contemporary accounts. Big difference.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Point taken 🙂. But not everyone was able to write anything at all back then, and just like today, many "writers" have a special purpose for their description. As the video shows, the description of NERO had a very specific purpose that had nothing to do with the event. I think it is an interesting phenomenon that in relatively modern times we have a very broad approach of testimony about events from a great many sources. My main interest has for many years been WW2, but also from WW1 we have an abundance of descriptions from ordinary people whose task it was not to describe events with a special purpose. Depictions and descriptions that come from so many different sources have, in my eyes, a completely different weight than stories that are many thousands of years old. But thank you for your videos :-) We live in a time where there are some who are interested in making the truth fleeting, so I have great respect for those who try to hold on to the fact that we may be entitled to different opinions but that the facts are NOT is a question of what we think.
12:14 I WAS JUST THINKING, man Diogenes must’ve had a field day with that one.
Diogenes would punch you in your face and when you tried to press charges, he would simply say “your honor, he charges me with an impossible act!”
Diogenes was a town drunk, nothing more.
To better understand Zeno's paradox of motion, I suggest reading Infinitesimal by Amir Alexander. It's about the history of indivisibles in mathematics and how basically Zeno's paradox was at the heart of some huge mathematical arguments during the 17th century.
Better way to put the paradox would be something like this:
Imagine a finite line. Divide the line in half. Divide the two parts in half, and so on and so on infinite times. Now your line has infinite number of parts. Do these parts have a value? If these parts have a value, then the line should be infinitely long and not finite. If the parts don't have value, then the line also doesn't have a value and can't exist.
Respectfully, while a lot of important scientists (Galileo, Copernicus, Mendel, Lamaitre) Einstein really wasn't one of them. He was born to a Jewish family and raised Jewish. As an adult he was not really religious at all. The only times he really talked about God was in the Spinoza sense as a metaphor for the principles of physics the universe operates on closer to pantheism if anything.
He meant to say Newton
Actually, according to Walter Isaacson’s Einstein biography, he DID see God as more than just a simple metaphor - he believed in a vague universal intelligence that established natural law and order but not a God that you could personally interact with. He actually had very complicated and sometimes conflicting views of God and religion. Ones that defied any kind of firm label.
Zeno is the original physicist; technically right; you can’t ever actually get to 0 distance on a journey. Engineers temper the physicists by saying “close enough”
Idk if you got a hair cut recently or you just did your hair really nice, looks great
I love these type of videos