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Basically, for most bloody things with lots of deaths, prisoners or trained slaves were used, which is why they were cheap and easy to replace and those who survived the whole thing have become very popular because it is an underdog story and that was a story that was well received by the people even 2000 years ago
Wwi was started by the death of the archduke but to be fair that was the last straw to the war. The country of serbia wanted freedom from Austria-Hungary and a terrorist group executed the archduke. And the war didn’t start until end of July. The kaiser was like wtf when Austria-Hungary army started. Source is Extra History. They have a Playlist on why wwi was started
"you can't maneuver a sword on a battlefield" ...no, a sword can in fact maneuver quite well in confined space, the problem was that a sword had less than half the reach of a contemporary polearm, so if the other guy has a halberd and you have an estoc, your weapon is plenty maneuverable but he'll kill you before you can get close enough to so much as poke him. It's like taking a glock 17 up against someone with a scoped rifle at 500 meters.
That is true. Which is why the spear was the chief weapon of the infantry since it's first creation and a sword was considered a side arm/ back up you could carry for emergencies or if you were not expecting combat. Only the Romans turned this on it's ear, and not even completely, with the use of special equipment and tactics. And we even have some accounts from Roman Centurions stating that the scariest thing they ever faced was a Macedonian Phalanx.
And that a sword takes a lot more practice to use effectively than a spear or polarm. So when quickly training an army it makes sense to go with something you can learn to use fast and that has reach. The slice and slash of swords take practice to consistently get aligned right to cut deeply, and thats before you even try to learn the interplay of an actual fight. Polearms take lots of practice to get really good at, but "put spiky end twards enemy and stab" isn't too hard to teach a bunch of newbies.
I think the Einstein story comes from him being denied admission to University in Germany because he was Jewish. The story got turned into something else entirely.
From what I know: Einstein was Swiss. Swiss schools give grades 6 - 1 (US: 6=A, 1=F), while German schools have 1=A and 6=F. So saying "Einstein got a 6 in math" is accurate, it just doesn't mean what we Germans think it does.
Well there are more people now, by a lot, then ever before in recorded history too. It seems there is no good estimates for world wide slavery from the past, or even today as every estimate for modern I have found was much higher than the last and all claimed to be credible. So no way to know for certain exactly how many or what actual percentage of the population we are looking at. The vast majority of documentation simply deals with historic slavery numbers in the U.S.A. in particular and the Americas to a much lesser extent. Yet some details are known. Such as Brazil did import more slaves than the North America did and for longer it seems (Brazil did not outlaw until 1888). In other parts of the world the Arabian Peninsula imported 50,000 slaves a year from Zanzibar alone. That's not including the numerous other locations in which slaves were transported to the Ottoman Empire (around 2 million Russians, Poles, and Lithuanians were enslaved between 1500 and 1700 by them as well as importing 25,000 to 50,000 a year from Zanzibar for about 100 years). Estimates for U.S.A. during 1840 put the number of slaves between 3.5 and 4 million. World population at that time was possibly 1 billion. World population now is around 8 billion. The highest estimate I saw for current World Wide Slavery was 50 million. So while that 50 million is big and could be higher than ever in recorded history. They have never actually recorded it in history. And with much higher population than ever in recorded history the percentage of Slaves in the world currently must be much lower in the past. So we are actually winning this fight. It's just that slavery has been a thing for longer than we have recorded history. And something engrained in us that long is going to take a while to grind back out. But don't loose hope, we are getting there.
On the subject of Columbus there are borderline conspiracy theories that he was so annoying at the Spanish court they sent him west hoping he would die.
Re: Jessie James, has no one else seen that one episode of the Brady Bunch when Peter was admiring Jessie James until he found out the truth? Everything explained right there 😏
5:56 -- Andy Griffith really goofed when he said that Paul Revere was as "poor as Job's turkey"...Paul and his pa were in fact very renowned silversmiths. And that was definitely not an entry level job at the time!!
Thomas Edison electrocuted Topsy the circus elephant on film just to prove a point about AC electricity (citation: Bob's Burgers, Wikipedia.) Also Edison bragged about plaigarizing the work of Nikola Tesla. Even if that's been disproven, still a sick thing to do.
The one with spices always triggers me a bit. The reasons why they used so much are quite simple 1) different preferences 2) The spices were less potent duet to long shipping, lack of hermetic containers and so on. And Yes, even localy - fresh rosemary is much more fragrant than the dried one, so you have tonuse more. 3) In some cases we are not sure how the units provided In sources translate to modern one, or if we translate the correct one, because a pound could be different In different places. So yeah, and if you still have doubts open a package of whatever spice you like, put it into a linnen pouch and leave for 6-8 weeks.
Circa 20:50, concerning WW2. That is not correct. 80% of confirmed German KIA casualties were on the Eastern Front if you tally all losses between 1939-1944. Bundswehr records break down in 1945 and it's much harder to establish German casualties in the final 4 months or so of the war in Europe. However, equating headcount killed with combat power deployment is inaccurate. If you look at a German division deployment breakdown you only have 80% on the Eastern front for a few months in 1941. Furthermore, this casualty breakdown is specifically for German soldiers KILLED, not the sum total of all casualties. There were a lot more prisoners to killed ratio on the Western Front than the Eastern Front, (owing to factors like greater motorization of Western Allied armies able to envelop more easily, and the less fanatical nature of the combat); which is why Pre-VE day, the Soviets captured about 549,360 German soldiers while the Western Allies captured about 3.1 million; or almost 6 times as many. This also overlooks the fact that headcount and combat power have some correlation, but not a 1:1 correlation. That 80-20 or so killed by front is reversed if you look at Luftwaffe planes; the Western Allies shot down way more of them than the Soviets did, and faced the far heavier air deployment. Coming up with how many infantrymen or tankers or artillerymen work out to bomber crews and fighter pilots is beyond my ability, but I want to stress that you can't just say a man died and it's the same effect on combat power overall. Yeah, I'm American, and I will freely admit that pop history in my country exaggerates America's role to a ridiculous extent, but embracing the counter-narrative that "America basically did nothing, it was all the Soviets" is also incorrect. I do have some links to demonstrate the math behind these claims, but TH-cam eats my posts when I try to put them up. If you're interested, message me and I'll message you directly with the links.
Ich bin ein Berliner is effectively a Pun in german as it both means: I am a Jelly Donut aswell as I am a Berliner (Which btw means you are from Berlin. Like how a Newyorker is from new york) Ich bin berliner means that he is a Berlin native, ie. him being from berlin and born in Berlin. And is a more clear varriant but honestly the pun is better. Source: I got a 1 in History (1 is best grade in Germany, equlivent to an A in other places, or a 6 in austria). Also i am from germany, notably: Ich bin ein Berliner, as i am from Berlin.
All i know about tiger tanks is they were big for the time, probably too expensive for what they could accomplish, and that i did not even wake up this morning
The reason for the idea of Vikings with horned helmets goes back to Wagner, who thought about how I can make the Viking in my pieces recognizable even for those at the back, exactly give the wild one a helmet with horns that can be seen from afar and it looks cool
A historical inaccuracey for Canada is that Canadians are all kind hearted and loving to everyone that they meet. Which is a lie because Residential Schools show the much darker side of Canadian history!!!!!!
the Titanic was an excellent ship the only problem is the crew made some serious mistakes they drove into an ice field at top speed they tried to slow down and they didn't have any good binoculars available because the good navigator who had been fired earlier for a cheap job had taken the key to the cabinet with the good binoculars out of anger over his dismissal so yes the reason for the accident was definitely human error
Basically the sentence they should eat cake originally came from a completely different statement namely they should eat brioche which was available because the nobility ate it and because it had to be offered at the same price as bread by law
Coco Chanel did not invent the little black dress. She was one of several designers who released black dresses at the time, and hers' was not considered that special.
well, the eastern front does deserve more attention during ww2. The US played a heavy role in supplying both fronts with the lend-lease act of 1941, supplying food and gear to the UK and the USSR, as well as supplying fredom fighters in France.
@christianjadot4459 sure heck the US tends to forget that Russia at the end of the Pacific War was also marching towards Japan and played a small role in the surrender of Japan
The myth of Kennedy the Berliner is helped by the fact that some people the audience were heard laughing after he said it. However they weren't laughing at him calling himself a doughnut, they were laughing at a joke he made directly after. When the translator repeated the phrase, the president humorously thanked him for "translating my German." In fact he had practiced saying the phrase with Berlin-born speakers. Even if he had been incorrect, the audience wouldn't have immediately associated the flub with he pastry. The correct name is Pfannkuchen. As they became known outside the city, they acquired the name Berliner Pfannkuchen (Berlin-style Pfannkuchen) which was shortened to Berliner in some places. However, in their city of origin they were always just Pfannkuchen
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When you learn that the subtitles don't understand the word 'cumin' so you learn that the Romans ate HUMAN.
Basically, for most bloody things with lots of deaths, prisoners or trained slaves were used, which is why they were cheap and easy to replace and those who survived the whole thing have become very popular because it is an underdog story and that was a story that was well received by the people even 2000 years ago
I've never understood Nero fiddled while Rome burned; wasn't the fiddle, violin, whatever, not invited for another thousand years? Over 1000 years?
Oh, and yes, I know it's a saying, but I've known far too many people who take it literally. Stop using this saying!
Wwi was started by the death of the archduke but to be fair that was the last straw to the war. The country of serbia wanted freedom from Austria-Hungary and a terrorist group executed the archduke. And the war didn’t start until end of July. The kaiser was like wtf when Austria-Hungary army started. Source is Extra History. They have a Playlist on why wwi was started
Everyone knows that. Wars aren’t generally started by “one thing” they are the culmination of a million small insults that go unaddressed.
@@kitkakitteh American schools are taught for the most part that the archdukes death is the reason why wwi started
"you can't maneuver a sword on a battlefield"
...no, a sword can in fact maneuver quite well in confined space, the problem was that a sword had less than half the reach of a contemporary polearm, so if the other guy has a halberd and you have an estoc, your weapon is plenty maneuverable but he'll kill you before you can get close enough to so much as poke him. It's like taking a glock 17 up against someone with a scoped rifle at 500 meters.
That is true. Which is why the spear was the chief weapon of the infantry since it's first creation and a sword was considered a side arm/ back up you could carry for emergencies or if you were not expecting combat. Only the Romans turned this on it's ear, and not even completely, with the use of special equipment and tactics. And we even have some accounts from Roman Centurions stating that the scariest thing they ever faced was a Macedonian Phalanx.
And that a sword takes a lot more practice to use effectively than a spear or polarm. So when quickly training an army it makes sense to go with something you can learn to use fast and that has reach. The slice and slash of swords take practice to consistently get aligned right to cut deeply, and thats before you even try to learn the interplay of an actual fight. Polearms take lots of practice to get really good at, but "put spiky end twards enemy and stab" isn't too hard to teach a bunch of newbies.
And even people trained with swords used other longer ranged stuff to start.
I think the Einstein story comes from him being denied admission to University in Germany because he was Jewish. The story got turned into something else entirely.
From what I know: Einstein was Swiss. Swiss schools give grades 6 - 1 (US: 6=A, 1=F), while German schools have 1=A and 6=F. So saying "Einstein got a 6 in math" is accurate, it just doesn't mean what we Germans think it does.
It amazes me when I heard there are more slaves now, than every before in recorded history, if you include sex trafficking.
Humans suck what can I tell ya
To be fair the slavory of the past also included sex trafficking
It always included sex trafficking. And people always conflate chattel slavery with other forms of slavery. @@bytesabre
Well there are more people now, by a lot, then ever before in recorded history too. It seems there is no good estimates for world wide slavery from the past, or even today as every estimate for modern I have found was much higher than the last and all claimed to be credible. So no way to know for certain exactly how many or what actual percentage of the population we are looking at. The vast majority of documentation simply deals with historic slavery numbers in the U.S.A. in particular and the Americas to a much lesser extent. Yet some details are known. Such as Brazil did import more slaves than the North America did and for longer it seems (Brazil did not outlaw until 1888). In other parts of the world the Arabian Peninsula imported 50,000 slaves a year from Zanzibar alone. That's not including the numerous other locations in which slaves were transported to the Ottoman Empire (around 2 million Russians, Poles, and Lithuanians were enslaved between 1500 and 1700 by them as well as importing 25,000 to 50,000 a year from Zanzibar for about 100 years). Estimates for U.S.A. during 1840 put the number of slaves between 3.5 and 4 million. World population at that time was possibly 1 billion. World population now is around 8 billion. The highest estimate I saw for current World Wide Slavery was 50 million. So while that 50 million is big and could be higher than ever in recorded history. They have never actually recorded it in history. And with much higher population than ever in recorded history the percentage of Slaves in the world currently must be much lower in the past. So we are actually winning this fight. It's just that slavery has been a thing for longer than we have recorded history. And something engrained in us that long is going to take a while to grind back out. But don't loose hope, we are getting there.
The let the cake thing was Louis xvis grandmother who was also a maria Theresa but of Spain
There are people who think that Prince Albert got his dingaling pierced when in reality he wouldn't even dare to jeopardize his fertility.
On the subject of Columbus there are borderline conspiracy theories that he was so annoying at the Spanish court they sent him west hoping he would die.
Re: Jessie James, has no one else seen that one episode of the Brady Bunch when Peter was admiring Jessie James until he found out the truth? Everything explained right there 😏
5:56 -- Andy Griffith really goofed when he said that Paul Revere was as "poor as Job's turkey"...Paul and his pa were in fact very renowned silversmiths. And that was definitely not an entry level job at the time!!
Thomas Edison electrocuted Topsy the circus elephant on film just to prove a point about AC electricity (citation: Bob's Burgers, Wikipedia.)
Also Edison bragged about plaigarizing the work of Nikola Tesla. Even if that's been disproven, still a sick thing to do.
I've been reading the history smashers book so I learned all these truths from those
The Middle Ages were the "Dark Ages" . Damn rennaissance propaganda...
The one with spices always triggers me a bit. The reasons why they used so much are quite simple 1) different preferences 2) The spices were less potent duet to long shipping, lack of hermetic containers and so on. And Yes, even localy - fresh rosemary is much more fragrant than the dried one, so you have tonuse more. 3) In some cases we are not sure how the units provided In sources translate to modern one, or if we translate the correct one, because a pound could be different In different places. So yeah, and if you still have doubts open a package of whatever spice you like, put it into a linnen pouch and leave for 6-8 weeks.
Always love to learn some new truths and old lies about history!
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Circa 20:50, concerning WW2. That is not correct. 80% of confirmed German KIA casualties were on the Eastern Front if you tally all losses between 1939-1944. Bundswehr records break down in 1945 and it's much harder to establish German casualties in the final 4 months or so of the war in Europe. However, equating headcount killed with combat power deployment is inaccurate. If you look at a German division deployment breakdown you only have 80% on the Eastern front for a few months in 1941. Furthermore, this casualty breakdown is specifically for German soldiers KILLED, not the sum total of all casualties. There were a lot more prisoners to killed ratio on the Western Front than the Eastern Front, (owing to factors like greater motorization of Western Allied armies able to envelop more easily, and the less fanatical nature of the combat); which is why Pre-VE day, the Soviets captured about 549,360 German soldiers while the Western Allies captured about 3.1 million; or almost 6 times as many.
This also overlooks the fact that headcount and combat power have some correlation, but not a 1:1 correlation. That 80-20 or so killed by front is reversed if you look at Luftwaffe planes; the Western Allies shot down way more of them than the Soviets did, and faced the far heavier air deployment. Coming up with how many infantrymen or tankers or artillerymen work out to bomber crews and fighter pilots is beyond my ability, but I want to stress that you can't just say a man died and it's the same effect on combat power overall. Yeah, I'm American, and I will freely admit that pop history in my country exaggerates America's role to a ridiculous extent, but embracing the counter-narrative that "America basically did nothing, it was all the Soviets" is also incorrect.
I do have some links to demonstrate the math behind these claims, but TH-cam eats my posts when I try to put them up. If you're interested, message me and I'll message you directly with the links.
Ich bin ein Berliner is effectively a Pun in german as it both means: I am a Jelly Donut aswell as I am a Berliner (Which btw means you are from Berlin. Like how a Newyorker is from new york)
Ich bin berliner means that he is a Berlin native, ie. him being from berlin and born in Berlin. And is a more clear varriant but honestly the pun is better.
Source: I got a 1 in History (1 is best grade in Germany, equlivent to an A in other places, or a 6 in austria). Also i am from germany, notably: Ich bin ein Berliner, as i am from Berlin.
r/askhistorians is great until you insult the T-34 or Tiger tank. Then it is just a shitfit
All i know about tiger tanks is they were big for the time, probably too expensive for what they could accomplish, and that i did not even wake up this morning
The reason for the idea of Vikings with horned helmets goes back to Wagner, who thought about how I can make the Viking in my pieces recognizable even for those at the back, exactly give the wild one a helmet with horns that can be seen from afar and it looks cool
A historical inaccuracey for Canada is that Canadians are all kind hearted and loving to everyone that they meet. Which is a lie because Residential Schools show the much darker side of Canadian history!!!!!!
the juramentados are wild to learn about
the Titanic was an excellent ship the only problem is the crew made some serious mistakes they drove into an ice field at top speed they tried to slow down and they didn't have any good binoculars available because the good navigator who had been fired earlier for a cheap job had taken the key to the cabinet with the good binoculars out of anger over his dismissal so yes the reason for the accident was definitely human error
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People who say the erroneous facts on Titanic always annoys me. Especially if they say they're interested or an expert on Titanic
Basically the sentence they should eat cake originally came from a completely different statement namely they should eat brioche which was available because the nobility ate it and because it had to be offered at the same price as bread by law
Coco Chanel did not invent the little black dress. She was one of several designers who released black dresses at the time, and hers' was not considered that special.
they had time to launch all but two lifeboats more lifeboats would definitely have helped another problem was the crew was not trained for such a case
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Well duh, "rice ball" translates to jelly donut, not berlin!
(Pokemon joke)
Zeus bless those brave actors at Thermopylae...
Those gladiator slave owners really cared for their slaves. Be nice to them. LMAO!
Have w the hell did cumin turn into human??
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well, the eastern front does deserve more attention during ww2. The US played a heavy role in supplying both fronts with the lend-lease act of 1941, supplying food and gear to the UK and the USSR, as well as supplying fredom fighters in France.
And Europeans love playing down the entire Pacific Front in the war ... which was fought primarily by the U.S.
@christianjadot4459 sure heck the US tends to forget that Russia at the end of the Pacific War was also marching towards Japan and played a small role in the surrender of Japan
The myth of Kennedy the Berliner is helped by the fact that some people the audience were heard laughing after he said it. However they weren't laughing at him calling himself a doughnut, they were laughing at a joke he made directly after. When the translator repeated the phrase, the president humorously thanked him for "translating my German."
In fact he had practiced saying the phrase with Berlin-born speakers. Even if he had been incorrect, the audience wouldn't have immediately associated the flub with he pastry. The correct name is Pfannkuchen. As they became known outside the city, they acquired the name Berliner Pfannkuchen (Berlin-style Pfannkuchen) which was shortened to Berliner in some places. However, in their city of origin they were always just Pfannkuchen
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