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Might I suggest Malik Ambar and Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Come to think of it or something about Silures (Black Celts) would be cool. Can't forget Knight of the Holy Lance
Thank you so much Simon for making these videos they are not only entertaining but you learn something as well and you do it so well. Not everyone can speak and have someone listen as long as your videos are! My son come up and asked me what I was watching on one of your videos and now he’s watching your videos!! Thank you so much for putting these out!!! After watching you on videos this long it’s as if you’re almost to the family history teacher... lmao
Hello Plz do a Vidio of the life of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim The 1st and only Marschall of Finland. His Life is One of the most intresting tings i know abot sorry for my bad English Im From Sweden and English is My 2nd language German is my 3rd and Swedish is my 1st
My favorite story about Hadrian is that one day Hadrian went to the public baths and saw a man rubbing himself down against the wall. When asked why he was doing that, the man said that he didn't have a slave to rub him down so Hadrian gifted him one. Next time he went to the baths, he saw dozens of men rubbing themselves against the wall in an attempt to receive the same gift. Instead of giving them all slaves, he quipped that they should rub each other down instead
Yes, I like that story about him too. Thanks for mentioning it. It probably never happend in reality, BUT it discribes the way people saw him, it tells us about his character ;-) 1- He was an Emperor close to the plebs (common people) because he visited the public baths from time to time/ traveled the empire as no one did before. He was the most seen and reachable emperor. 2 - He could remember faces and namens easily (he remembered the lone ex-soldier (the first man who rubbed himselfe down on the wall) he met years before. 3 - He was a clever and just ruler, because of the way he handled the situation with the copycats ;-) He truly is one of my favorit among the roman emperors! A very special person in almost every way. His actions still influences our lifes today (laws, history, some buildings (the acqueduct in Athens is still running) etc
@@Thenamelesssting i used to have that, i used to say it was an ipod and just have my headphones in.. now i drive alot, so i have it playing as i drive.. would prefer the video too but i dont fancy crashing 🤣
Awesome that you did Hadrian, he’s one of my favorite leaders from history. I recommend you check out Jozef Pilsudski, The Polish nationalist man who escaped from an asylum, tried to kill the Tsar, robbed trains, and became the leading figure in Eastern Europe to stop the communists from moving out west to take Europe.
@@rohiths9099 there were more revolutionary parties than the Bolsheviks. The Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) were a populist socialist group of revolutionists who killed Tsar Alexander III. "Socialist" does not mean "Communist". The People's Will were a bit more like Anarchists. Anyway, lots of people and groups hated the Tsar's.
Hadrian’s succession planning was a bit more crafty than that Simon. His desired successor was Marcus Aurelias but he though he was a bit too young at the time...hence why he arranged for the marriage of Marcus to Lucias’ daughter and when the Lucias plan went pear..he had Antonius adopt Marcus as his son
Hadrian would have been absolutely astounded that after all his great building works, his name would be remembered today for a small ditch wall built in snowy faraway Caledonia...
I may like to add that how the romans treated slaves was far different than how most societies treated slaves. Oftentimes it was expected for slaves to eventually be freed after a while in their masters service and even given a grant of land or money. (Similar to how Roman soldiers were treated.) although not common it was a very important aspect of Roman society and culture people seem to forget about. While in other parts of the Mediterranean slavery was far more brutal and almost sadistic. Roman culture had a massive emphasis on liberty that is strange not to see in other societies.
Isn't it amazing that we know exact dates things happened from all these centuries ago? We know more about the Roman Empire than we do about some more recent events in human history. What a great civilization.. they continue to inspire us even today. I wish I could go back in time just long enough to see it. Of course I'd probably find some way to offend the wrong person and be either crucified or fed to a starving lion in the arena.. but even if that did happen, what a sight it would be to behold!
@@Lionbladier Yes. He also renamed Judea to Philiistina (which eventually became anglicized to Palestine) in reference to the story of King David. This combined with an active genocide he started was an attempt by him to erase Jews from history. He is seen very positively in the Christian world, but Jews absolute despise him for being a genocidal tyrant. The entire Israel-Palestinian conflict has him at the roots.
I’m from wallsend in northern England, it’s where Hadrians wall ended in the east. The local shopping center is called hadrians forum and there’s a museum where the old fort is called segedunum
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example; Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed Confederate President Jefferson Davies Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction Etc. I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
Hadrian's wall doesn't seem that impressive today because of the condition it is currently in but once you learn about what it once was, it is super impressive and was pretty effective while it was maintained. Really cool place to visit if you get a chance too!
Charles XII of Sweden aka Carolus Rex, please. 🎶They thought I was too young to rule the land Just as they failed to understand Born to rule... My time has come I was chosen by heaven Say my name when you pray To the skies, see Carolus rise!🎶🎸
Thank you to whoever wrote the script because you’ve used the BC and A.D. abbreviations of which I actually know and I have no idea what BCE and CE stand for.
My suggestions for next biographies: Sir Nicholas Winton Nicolas Flamel Akhenaten Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart Madame Voisin Cesare Borgia D B Cooper
I live along the remains of the wall, it’s local legend that he was a total horn dog! You should do a video about the Border Reivers. That’s what/ who the wall was *really* built to keep out.
bam-skater Historically, they weren’t marauding hoardes until 1,000 years later but the families and farming communities certainly were in existence by that point.
Another fact that is somewhat important here: Hadrian's nephew, Onkelos, is credited with one of the most standard and important translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic known as Targum Onkelos. Onkelos converted to Judaism, much to his uncle's disapproval, according to Jewish sources of the era.
Please do a video on Chanakya. He was an ancient Indian scholar who groomed Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of Mauryan empire which was the first empire in history to unify entire India. Chanakya is considered responsible for the overthrow of the Nandas and the establishment of the Mauryan empire. He was also a great thinker whose works, Chanakya Niti nad Arthashastra, are considered great treatises on the politics and economics of the ancient world. You should do a video on him.
And yet Mike, I get it, if Hayden's like me, he sees Simon every day! Between Biographics, Geographics, and the 50 other channels that Simon heads, he feels like a buddy!
Could you do Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing? He mentored Patton, McArthur, Eisenhower, Bradley, and many more famous American generals during WWI He’s extremely important to American and World history and feel like most people don’t know enough about him if they know about him at all
@E Fig Yea but I think one on Pershing would be really cool since he’s mostly forgotten by most Americans but he really built the army to fight over seas in WWI which would allow it to fight overseas again in WWII and he was a mentor to so many of our best WWII He’s just really important to American history and it’s a shame not many Americans know too much about him
Antinous was Greek, and Athens was not one of the emperor's favorite places, it was his FAVORITE place in the empire as hundreds of epigraphic documents and several historical sources testify. After all, Hadrian was known as Greaculus (the little Greek) from his youth.
Do a video about John Colter! He is credited with being the first European to see Yellowstone. He was an early explorer and mountain man, and was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
I love Hadrian’s wall it’s in such beautiful parts of England. So he’s one of my favourite Roman Caesar. Also I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he’d be the emperor I consider myself like. I’d like to think with unlimited power I’d do loads of good for everyone. But I’m also quite hedonistic myself, and let’s face it if I have unlimited power, my enemies wouldn’t have a good outlook.
Thanks so much for the great content as usual! Maybe you could also do videos on the following individuals (if others are interested, too): 1. Menachem Begin 2. Golda Meir 3. Moses Mendelssohn 4. Boris Johnson 5. John Nash 6. Daniel Kahneman 7. Milton Freeman
Not sure how I stumbled across your videos but thanks to TH-cam suggesting me videos based on the videos I’ve already watched. I am now subscribed to all your channels. Keep it up good sir
I live a two minute walk from a portion of Hadrian's Wall in Wallsend (ironically, not quite the end of the wall). Segedenum isn't a bad walk around, though I haven't visited the fenced off areas since you have to pay to see them up close.
Aurelian needs to be acknowledged more than he is. What a fuckin legend... Edit: Marcus Aurelius is overrated. Any good done during his reign can't make up for his choice in succession. Commodus was the beginning of the end.
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PLEASE I BEG OF YOU!!!! Please do Franz von Papen! Everyone talks about Hitler and how he rose to power but no one ever talks about just how integral Papen was to it. Imagine palpatine trying to take over the republic and ANOTHER palpatine manipulating that palpatine to overthrow him. Hitler's use of Papen is 6 dimensional chess worthy. How Papen had tried to use the Nazi party to make himself dictator' manipulating Hindenburg who wanted to reestablish the military's and how bother were used by Hitler who then took it all. That whole year of 1932 is INSANE. Just do a biography of Germany in 1932. Like' omg. When you realize everything that made wwii essentially only came about in 1 year it is BIZZARE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON THIS TOPIC!!!!
You left out one of Hadrian's longest lasting legacies. He is the one who created the word Palestine (Philistina is what he would have called it) and started a brutal genocide of the Jews. He even picked the name Philistina in order to insult Jews as it was him denouncing King David by naming the land after the Philistines he supposedly fought off. He was the starting point for the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
8:58 "okay, he murdered a lot of people. But at least he was competent." The bar for roman emperors was quite low but sadly most thought it was a limbo contest
Do you have any suggestions for a good teleprompter for talking head videos such as yours here at Biographics? As a fellow wearer of glasses, I also commend your lighting setup. You do a good job avoiding the glare. Any tips?
Can we please get an episode of Simon Bar Kokhba, the leader of the rebellion in Judea. It seems almost impossible to find documentaries about him despite the long lasting effects of his rebellion
Hey, can you make a list of roman emperors in chronological order? I like to rewatch these from time to time, but my understanding of the timeline is in haze.
Because the name came up so much I went to the comments to see all the ‘But it was me! Dio!’ quotes. But there were none (so far), and so now I suspect Biographics must exist outside the internet.
No idea how it actually went down but based on the implications.. can you imagine how nervous and paranoid that last guy Antonious Pious must have felt when Hadrian called him up? Like I'm next, this dude is going get infatuated with me and then kill me.
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It was Muir's that build ROME,
those aqueducts, Melinated
people taught Europeans their
technologies.
Might I suggest Malik Ambar and Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Come to think of it or something about Silures (Black Celts) would be cool. Can't forget Knight of the Holy Lance
Thank you so much Simon for making these videos they are not only entertaining but you learn something as well and you do it so well. Not everyone can speak and have someone listen as long as your videos are! My son come up and asked me what I was watching on one of your videos and now he’s watching your videos!! Thank you so much for putting these out!!! After watching you on videos this long it’s as if you’re almost to the family history teacher... lmao
Hello Plz do a Vidio of the life of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim The 1st and only Marschall of Finland. His Life is One of the most intresting tings i know abot sorry for my bad English Im From Sweden and English is My 2nd language German is my 3rd and Swedish is my 1st
Uh oh Mr. Woke Pavor is here crushing the establishment with supreme knowledge lol
My favorite story about Hadrian is that one day Hadrian went to the public baths and saw a man rubbing himself down against the wall. When asked why he was doing that, the man said that he didn't have a slave to rub him down so Hadrian gifted him one. Next time he went to the baths, he saw dozens of men rubbing themselves against the wall in an attempt to receive the same gift. Instead of giving them all slaves, he quipped that they should rub each other down instead
Yes, I like that story about him too.
Thanks for mentioning it.
It probably never happend in reality, BUT it discribes the way people saw him, it tells us about his character ;-)
1- He was an Emperor close to the plebs (common people) because he visited the public baths from time to time/ traveled the empire as no one did before. He was the most seen and reachable emperor.
2 - He could remember faces and namens easily (he remembered the lone ex-soldier (the first man who rubbed himselfe down on the wall) he met years before.
3 - He was a clever and just ruler, because of the way he handled the situation with the copycats ;-)
He truly is one of my favorit among the roman emperors! A very special person in almost every way. His actions still influences our lifes today (laws, history, some buildings (the acqueduct in Athens is still running) etc
Giggity
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
@yitzhak rafaeli shekkelsteingoldmanberg so sad but so true as said behavior is abhorrent in God's Eyes...
Oh how kind of him to gift him another human being.
"No mercy was shown, no quarter given. Hadrian would settle for nothing less... than the complete destruction of Judea."
*legionaries dabbing*
**hava nigla club mix plays**
Quote who
@@michaelcerda5514 Hadrian
@@michaelcerda5514 dovahatty. Based History.
1:45 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:55 - Chapter 2 - Rise to the throne
6:35 - Chapter 3 - A rocky start
9:40 - Mid roll ads
11:05 - Chapter 4 - Inside the empire
14:00 - Chapter 5 - Hadrian's grand tour
18:30 - Chapter 6 - Rebellion in Judea
20:20 - Chapter 7 - Final years & succession
You're the best Simon, I use all my breaks at work to learn about historical figures thanks to you. Keep up the great work.
I listen to him during work 🤣
@@murder13love no phones allowed inside my work, or I would also.
@@Thenamelesssting i used to have that, i used to say it was an ipod and just have my headphones in.. now i drive alot, so i have it playing as i drive.. would prefer the video too but i dont fancy crashing 🤣
@@murder13love I know every time I Drive I'm like I wish I could watch but I leave my phone on my passengers seat. I feel your pain bud haha
@@Thenamelesssting truth.. audio is still great! Haha
Awesome that you did Hadrian, he’s one of my favorite leaders from history. I recommend you check out Jozef Pilsudski, The Polish nationalist man who escaped from an asylum, tried to kill the Tsar, robbed trains, and became the leading figure in Eastern Europe to stop the communists from moving out west to take Europe.
He already did tho
@@zugma9931 Oh nice, now I have something else to watch today.
Based
If he was anti communist why try to kill the tsar
@@rohiths9099 there were more revolutionary parties than the Bolsheviks. The Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) were a populist socialist group of revolutionists who killed Tsar Alexander III. "Socialist" does not mean "Communist". The People's Will were a bit more like Anarchists. Anyway, lots of people and groups hated the Tsar's.
Hadrian’s succession planning was a bit more crafty than that Simon. His desired successor was Marcus Aurelias but he though he was a bit too young at the time...hence why he arranged for the marriage of Marcus to Lucias’ daughter and when the Lucias plan went pear..he had Antonius adopt Marcus as his son
Hadrian would have been absolutely astounded that after all his great building works, his name would be remembered today for a small ditch wall built in snowy faraway Caledonia...
18:30 “Meanwhile, the Jews were at it again”
"they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!"
Dovahtty fan I see?
Iamthe0c3an kooldude_377 Yep.
@@AtaMarKat And when news of the Jewish Revolt arrived to Hadrian, he went mad.
And with his 12 legions he sailed towards Judea
OY VEY!!!!!!!!
I remember when Rocky won the fight and he shouted:"HADRIAN!".
Hahahaha
Hadrian is a Chad
I love how Hadrian has become a borderline meme at this point
also someone should make a movie
I don’t think long nose tribe in charge of Hollywood would allow a movie about him and their evils
I would absolutely love to make movies on Ancient Rome!! But the money needed is insane!! I do intend on writing history books though!
"He indulged in greek culture"
You could say that
😂😂😂😂
The Greeks invented sex. The Romans discovered that it could be done with women.
Hadrian traveled more than all the previous emperors.
Caesar Augustus: Am I a joke to you!
Well to be fair, Hadrian did travel more!! 😅
I may like to add that how the romans treated slaves was far different than how most societies treated slaves. Oftentimes it was expected for slaves to eventually be freed after a while in their masters service and even given a grant of land or money.
(Similar to how Roman soldiers were treated.) although not common it was a very important aspect of Roman society and culture people seem to forget about.
While in other parts of the Mediterranean slavery was far more brutal and almost sadistic.
Roman culture had a massive emphasis on liberty that is strange not to see in other societies.
well said.
Great video! The Romans that should be spotlighted next are Augustus, Constantine, Diocletian, Aurelian, Sulla, Marius, and Pompey
I grew up in Hadrian Park , Wallsend, which is literally at the east end of guess what?
.
Hadrian’s Wall. 😎
I guessed wrong. . .
I live next to the forum in wallsend
Isn't it amazing that we know exact dates things happened from all these centuries ago? We know more about the Roman Empire than we do about some more recent events in human history. What a great civilization.. they continue to inspire us even today. I wish I could go back in time just long enough to see it. Of course I'd probably find some way to offend the wrong person and be either crucified or fed to a starving lion in the arena.. but even if that did happen, what a sight it would be to behold!
Not a great civilization it was The greatest civilization ever
After a day of working with elementary schoolers teaching them their ABCs it’s always nice to come home to new videos keeping us learning!
Isn't this the guy that's famous for "Judea delenda est"?
Lionbladier which is what
@@madelynlillita The most famous destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans, which led to the Diaspora - if I remember that correctly
Slander and Calumny, Iudea deserved it.
You mean...IVDEA DELENDA EST!
@@Lionbladier
Yes. He also renamed Judea to Philiistina (which eventually became anglicized to Palestine) in reference to the story of King David. This combined with an active genocide he started was an attempt by him to erase Jews from history. He is seen very positively in the Christian world, but Jews absolute despise him for being a genocidal tyrant. The entire Israel-Palestinian conflict has him at the roots.
I’m from wallsend in northern England, it’s where Hadrians wall ended in the east. The local shopping center is called hadrians forum and there’s a museum where the old fort is called segedunum
"I'm going to build a wall...and make Carthage pay fot it!"
There's good and bad Carthaginians on both sides
IVDEA*DELENDA*EST
Indeed
Dude. Uncool.
Based and redpilled
Well met
Hava Nigala remix
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example;
Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall
General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed
Confederate President Jefferson Davies
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction
Etc.
I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
A Biographic on Marcus Tullius Cicero would be amazing! I'd love to see your take on Cicero.
And Cicero's friend, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, would be another amazing video!! 😁
Hadrian's wall doesn't seem that impressive today because of the condition it is currently in but once you learn about what it once was, it is super impressive and was pretty effective while it was maintained. Really cool place to visit if you get a chance too!
I just sent a link to this video to a UK friend who wisited Hadrian's Wall this summer. Not much impresses her, but the wall did.
Charles XII of Sweden aka Carolus Rex, please.
🎶They thought I was too young to rule the land
Just as they failed to understand
Born to rule...
My time has come
I was chosen by heaven
Say my name when you pray
To the skies, see Carolus rise!🎶🎸
Thank you to whoever wrote the script because you’ve used the BC and A.D. abbreviations of which I actually know and I have no idea what BCE and CE stand for.
BCE= Before Common Era
CE= Common Era
BC and AD, while nobody is going to misunderstand, are generally considered improper in academic circles.
@@animeguardianxx i sure do wonder what the start of this "common era" is based off of
My son is named Hadrian Alexander after Emperor Hadrian and Alexander the Great.
You have great taste in names. May that boy be blessed and guided by Divus Hadrianus and the Divine Alexander
@@WildMen4444 thank you. 😊
Poor kid
Hadrian’s one of my favorite Roman Emperors
Same here!! 😁
My suggestions for next biographies:
Sir Nicholas Winton
Nicolas Flamel
Akhenaten
Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart
Madame Voisin
Cesare Borgia
D B Cooper
Me who read it as Sir Nicholas Flamel 👁👄👁
Pretty sure he has done db cooper
Akhenaten is a great idea
Ok! This Is Gonna Be A Good Idea
He already did a Black Bart video, I THINK. Pirates names all sound the same to me, so I may be wrong!
I live along the remains of the wall, it’s local legend that he was a total horn dog!
You should do a video about the Border Reivers. That’s what/ who the wall was *really* built to keep out.
The reivers didn't exist for about another 1000 years
bam-skater Historically, they weren’t marauding hoardes until 1,000 years later but the families and farming communities certainly were in existence by that point.
Marcius Turbo is a great name. I hear he had the fastest horse in town.
Please do Patrick Pearse, Irish Revolutionary!
@Paul Havrylak Havrylak They'd both be great choices!
@Paul Havrylak Havrylak Indeed, let's hope we get them.
OUTSTANDING !!! ROMAN HISTORY MY TOP FAVOURITE !!! THANKS ! FROM U.K. (2022).
Another fact that is somewhat important here: Hadrian's nephew, Onkelos, is credited with one of the most standard and important translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic known as Targum Onkelos. Onkelos converted to Judaism, much to his uncle's disapproval, according to Jewish sources of the era.
Please do a video on Chanakya. He was an ancient Indian scholar who groomed Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of Mauryan empire which was the first empire in history to unify entire India. Chanakya is considered responsible for the overthrow of the Nandas and the establishment of the Mauryan empire. He was also a great thinker whose works, Chanakya Niti nad Arthashastra, are considered great treatises on the politics and economics of the ancient world. You should do a video on him.
There is a beautiful book about the emperor " The memoirs of Hadrian"
Written by M. Yourcenar......
I don't know why but Simon's channels are almost the only ones where I hit the "like" button at all.
Drop a shaving company ad in the middle of a video about a Roman emperor who famously had a full beard and a full head of hair. 🤔 😀
Gotta get him some of that ad money
Should’ve waited for antinous for that lmao.
History would be so cool if it was taught like this. I've always loved it, but I think other people would too if they saw this.
How you been Simon? Hope all is well.
👏
This is a message that should be texted.
And yet Mike, I get it, if Hayden's like me, he sees Simon every day! Between Biographics, Geographics, and the 50 other channels that Simon heads, he feels like a buddy!
@@ActiveinWA and yet, since Simon doesnt see you, you come across as a creep.
Mike Campbell you seem like a fun guy
Could you do Gen. “Black Jack” Pershing? He mentored Patton, McArthur, Eisenhower, Bradley, and many more famous American generals during WWI
He’s extremely important to American and World history and feel like most people don’t know enough about him if they know about him at all
@E Fig Yea but I think one on Pershing would be really cool since he’s mostly forgotten by most Americans but he really built the army to fight over seas in WWI which would allow it to fight overseas again in WWII and he was a mentor to so many of our best WWII
He’s just really important to American history and it’s a shame not many Americans know too much about him
I have been waiting for this video since the day I found this channel. Hadrian is my favourite emperor and I'm just so pumped
Hadrian is one of my favorite emperor's as well!
Thanks for the great content! Hope to see ye cover Grace O'Malley, the Irish pirate queen some day please!
Antinous was Greek, and Athens was not one of the emperor's favorite places, it was his FAVORITE place in the empire as hundreds of epigraphic documents and several historical sources testify. After all, Hadrian was known as Greaculus (the little Greek) from his youth.
Reminds me of Hadrian Feraud - the 🐐 of chord and scale-pattern building in the world of electric bass (Jazz)
Keep those Roman Videos coming
Do a video about John Colter! He is credited with being the first European to see Yellowstone. He was an early explorer and mountain man, and was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Marcius Turbo sounds like a 1980s professional wrestler and part time cast member of American Gladiator rather than a Roman statesman
Excellent as usual. When are you going to do the bio of the emperor Augustus. That would be a fascinating story.
When the wall was finished did everyone say “yo Hadrian! We did it!”
I love Hadrian’s wall it’s in such beautiful parts of England. So he’s one of my favourite Roman Caesar.
Also I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he’d be the emperor I consider myself like. I’d like to think with unlimited power I’d do loads of good for everyone. But I’m also quite hedonistic myself, and let’s face it if I have unlimited power, my enemies wouldn’t have a good outlook.
For 2 million subs they should do a biographics of our esteemed host
I recommend visiting the gate in Jurash in Jordan. It is awesome and impressive as it still stands today.
Living to 62 and 90 back then must have been hell but also kind of fun because most people probably had never seen someone as old as you lol
Thanks so much for the great content as usual! Maybe you could also do videos on the following individuals (if others are interested, too):
1. Menachem Begin
2. Golda Meir
3. Moses Mendelssohn
4. Boris Johnson
5. John Nash
6. Daniel Kahneman
7. Milton Freeman
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I just love the way you narrate, special liking to Rome emperor’s
I live a two minute walk from a portion of Hadrian's Wall in Wallsend (ironically, not quite the end of the wall). Segedenum isn't a bad walk around, though I haven't visited the fenced off areas since you have to pay to see them up close.
Hadrian and Trajan are two of my favorite emperor's! 🛡️🗡️
I learn alot from this channel. Big fan
We are so lucky to get so much of our boy with the blaze.
Allegedly
@@nunyobidniz No sign of Sam still though 🤔
@@pphillips21 _What the hell even is that?!_ 😆
Heyyyyy got the notification- thanks bio!
Do Aurelian next (not Marcus Aurelius)
Aurelian needs to be acknowledged more than he is. What a fuckin legend...
Edit: Marcus Aurelius is overrated. Any good done during his reign can't make up for his choice in succession. Commodus was the beginning of the end.
One of history's most underrated rulers. If not the most.
Gustavus Adolphus: The Lion of the North/Father of Modern Warfare
That’s it I’m naming my first born son Marcius Turbo!
Turbo Lover. . .
Hi, could you please do a biography on Octavian?
it’s my return! I have honed my beard growing skills and now have facial hair like the great Hadrian and Simon Whistler, also head to the sponsor if you agree!
Ayyy
Did Hadrian use Sesertius Shave?
No he used Dollar shave club
I am once again asking for a biography on Augustus 😭
The video is there
And Sting was born in a town called Wallsend; one which, as the name might suggest, at the end of the Hadrian's wall. 😄 🤓
I've been waiting on this one lol thank you Simon Whistler and team.
I love these ancient people videos
PLEASE I BEG OF YOU!!!!
Please do Franz von Papen! Everyone talks about Hitler and how he rose to power but no one ever talks about just how integral Papen was to it. Imagine palpatine trying to take over the republic and ANOTHER palpatine manipulating that palpatine to overthrow him. Hitler's use of Papen is 6 dimensional chess worthy. How Papen had tried to use the Nazi party to make himself dictator' manipulating Hindenburg who wanted to reestablish the military's and how bother were used by Hitler who then took it all.
That whole year of 1932 is INSANE. Just do a biography of Germany in 1932. Like' omg. When you realize everything that made wwii essentially only came about in 1 year it is BIZZARE.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON THIS TOPIC!!!!
Simon, could you create a playlist of all your roman emperor videos in chronological order?
I just realized, the glory of Rome playlist pretty much does just that. 😆
You should do a video on Elizabeth Bathory "Blood Countess"
He already did
You left out one of Hadrian's longest lasting legacies. He is the one who created the word Palestine (Philistina is what he would have called it) and started a brutal genocide of the Jews. He even picked the name Philistina in order to insult Jews as it was him denouncing King David by naming the land after the Philistines he supposedly fought off. He was the starting point for the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
IUDEA DELENDA EST
8:58 "okay, he murdered a lot of people. But at least he was competent." The bar for roman emperors was quite low but sadly most thought it was a limbo contest
Could you sort your videos by century/decade? Love it keep up the incredible work!
Hearing about Hadrian immediately makes me think of DovahHattys Unbiased Roman History. Ivdea Delende Est.
Great Video per usual! Would love to see a video on the physicist Richard Feynman, easily my favorite scientist of all time.
Albert Speer: The literal architect of the 3rd Reich
Henry VI: The mad king
Sir Walter Scott: The British empire's myth maker
Im still waiting for “Alexander Hamilton: A Bastard and a Orphan”
Bruh Simon head is so shinning I wanna slap my thing on it and see his reaction
derp butt
Lmao welcome to the internet
Always listening driving between service calls!
Do you have any suggestions for a good teleprompter for talking head videos such as yours here at Biographics? As a fellow wearer of glasses, I also commend your lighting setup. You do a good job avoiding the glare. Any tips?
Bet Hadrian said "Scotland will pay for the wall"
Well given that the wall served as a customs checkpoint to tax goods coming from and going out to Caledonia, that’s kinda true.
These keep me alive
Can we please get an episode of Simon Bar Kokhba, the leader of the rebellion in Judea. It seems almost impossible to find documentaries about him despite the long lasting effects of his rebellion
Still waiting for the bio of Augustus.
Hadrian:
Builder of walls
Admirer of Greeks
Lover of the same sex
Killer of Jews
And emperor of Rome
Hey, can you make a list of roman emperors in chronological order? I like to rewatch these from time to time, but my understanding of the timeline is in haze.
Because the name came up so much I went to the comments to see all the ‘But it was me! Dio!’ quotes. But there were none (so far), and so now I suspect Biographics must exist outside the internet.
Awesome video. Could you do a video on Timur?
Did he also build the Large Hadrian Collider?
this made me chuckle..bravo
You take two Hadrians, then smash them together at high velocities. And then the magic happens.
Large hard on collider?
Can you make one of michiel de ruyter?
Make Istanbul Constantinople again!
Mrittik Mukherjee yes
Why, so crusaders can sack it again and leave it a declining shithole that can be retaken by turks?
@@doomdoktor never stop trying
Byzantium not Constantinople...if They Might Be Giants knew more history
Please do Aurelian he doesn't get enough love for restoring the world
Marcius Turbo. That was definitely a time traveler
Was hoping to learn more about Hadrian’s building projects from your title, but interesting nevertheless
No idea how it actually went down but based on the implications.. can you imagine how nervous and paranoid that last guy Antonious Pious must have felt when Hadrian called him up? Like I'm next, this dude is going get infatuated with me and then kill me.