Ranking the Weirdest Things at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

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  • @oomflem
    @oomflem 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2038

    As someone who just suffered through working christmas in retail, it is FASCINATING to learn that "being tortured by the one song played endlessly at your crappy retail job" predates the invention of recorded music.

    • @crowfaerymori
      @crowfaerymori 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      😂 that feeling when your pulse still rises at Christmas music 😂

    • @AM711
      @AM711 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      "I don't want a lot for xmas" 😆

    • @pastpatour
      @pastpatour 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      I worked Christmas in toy retail during the Frozen mania 10 years ago or something. It still haunts my nightmares.

    • @ToyInsanity
      @ToyInsanity 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      "After the Ball" has "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" vibes

    • @oomflem
      @oomflem 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No joke, my store speaker system glitched yesterday and played Let It Go six times in a row before someone intervened. In 2024.@@pastpatour

  • @Dept_Of_Ducks
    @Dept_Of_Ducks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +769

    I love how we just skid over 3 reports of finding a fetus on the ground. Like wait what? How common was that at other events?! Now I’m just imagining a Victorian woman giving a tiny squat in her finery like a chicken dropping an egg and walking off like nothing happened.

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      I know, right? I need context!

    • @kitsunefox2023
      @kitsunefox2023 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Well when you put it like that, it's kinda funny.

    • @cheekyghost2284
      @cheekyghost2284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

      Chicago World's Fair Fetus is my new band name

    • @the_real_Kurt_Yarish
      @the_real_Kurt_Yarish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      By "fetus", I have to imagine they simply meant "baby", because the alternative is too... strange... to consider.

    • @EchoandCo
      @EchoandCo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I need answers cause I thought the same thing!

  • @nerdyrevelries422
    @nerdyrevelries422 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2953

    Kaz being like, "The Victorians loved to make things out of things they shouldn't be made out of" like we didn't have a whole TV show about trying to figure out whether or not something is made of cake.

    • @Ceruleansquid-lo3iv
      @Ceruleansquid-lo3iv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +341

      You have two wolves inside you, except one is a Victorian.

    • @kamilahmaudsley964
      @kamilahmaudsley964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +233

      ​@@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv And the other is cake

    • @MatecaCorp
      @MatecaCorp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

      @@kamilahmaudsley964 …or is it?

    • @sarahwatts7152
      @sarahwatts7152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      @@MatecaCorp Nah, I'm pretty sure it's an actual tower of sketchily preserved oranges

    • @SherlocksLeftNipple
      @SherlocksLeftNipple 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      At least cake is edible, non-toxic, non-flammable, and not radioactive. 😂

  • @phos2602
    @phos2602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +258

    When I was a child I was raised by my old aunt’ s tastes in music and literature. I was given Victorian children’s encyclopaedia to read and magazines from the 1920s. We joined a club to buy records from the ‘20s and ‘30s. As such, I was an odd child and bullied constantly for my lack of knowledge of pop music. However, my point is this: I really expected beef tea when unwell, and my aunt would replicate it by watering down tinned Beef Consommé (an already thin soup) with boiling water, so I could sip the concoction and believe I was being suitably revived.

    • @yusinu6642
      @yusinu6642 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      That's honestly so cute, and I love how it wasn't actual beef tea lol

    • @cheekyghost2284
      @cheekyghost2284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      As someone else who was raised like I was born 100 years ago, I like you. Be my friend

    • @emo6577
      @emo6577 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Honestly sipping on what would basically be a very watered down soup sounds pretty comforting for a stuffy nose or upset stomach. I wouldn’t mind trying that little trick with the beef consommé someday

    • @arosefortes6507
      @arosefortes6507 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Growing up I had the flu so often this beef broth and dry toast is what kept me alive that and chicken broth. A good way of consuming more protein in the diet. Thank goodness for being born after the days of jelled meats and blccd pudding!

    • @simplesimply3753
      @simplesimply3753 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As someone who suffers a lot of stomach issues, beef tea is basically what keeps me going somedays.

  • @phatlaluke
    @phatlaluke 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1056

    You mentioned the Viking ship but you totally forgot the context: see, since it was the *columbian* exposition, the Spanish had built replicas of Christopher Columbus' three ships and had them sailed to Chicago, and the Scandinavians American community was upset because they wanted lief Erikson's discovery acknowledged, hence why they also built a replica boat and had it sailed to Chicago

    • @VultureSkins
      @VultureSkins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Rad if true. Every country should have brought a boat

    • @chris_troiano
      @chris_troiano 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      Very true! It was wild. The crew was jailed in Brooklyn after getting into drunken street fights (or, as they vehemently insisted, being attacked by thugs.)

    • @Budehgong
      @Budehgong 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Guess they stayed in character huh? @@chris_troiano

    • @NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois
      @NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      ​@@BudehgongMost of our info on vikings comes from the christians who were horrified they'd rob churches and kill priests (because as usual christians think everybody knows their sacred places and should respect them while destroying other culture's similar things). In reality vikings were likely as violent or non-violent as any other culture at the time.
      As for the alcohol, we know vikings had barrels of water on ships that they replenished on trade centers (they were skilled traders). Drinking alcohol was of course common too since people kept polluting the water around them. Medieval alcohol was however weaker than what we usually drink now.
      TLDR vikings weren't violent drunkards any more than people from other cultures. Unfortunately they either didn't write about themselves or they got lost so we're left with the writings of racist religious zealots.

    • @michaelpjeffries1521
      @michaelpjeffries1521 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sort of documented the knights templar visited Newfoundland before anyone else. They were from Scotland. Some evidence has been unearthed. First nations had oral history as well.

  • @space_the_final_fronteir
    @space_the_final_fronteir 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +334

    Glad to see that even in the 1890s, workers were getting infuriated by the playing of the same song over and over. Having just escaped the retail hellhole of Mariah Carey Christmas, it comforts me to know that people 130 years ago felt exactly the same.

    • @michelleb7399
      @michelleb7399 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      lol, back in the 90’s I worked at a mall. I loved helping people purchase Christmas gifts and enjoyed the Christmas track music… except when business was slow. I probably wouldn’t have had such bloody ears had it not been track music. Knowing exactly which song was coming after the next while working in a windowless space was almost like being in some straightjacketed room. Time moved so slowly during those moments.

    • @AnnieTyme
      @AnnieTyme 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its unfortunate that the over abundance of racebaiting social justice rhetoric that u have smothered your otherwise interesting and throughly well researched piece,that u excellent paying special detail on exbibits, inventions and souveniors I especially loved your attempts to include fun authentic verbage that sprinkled throughout your vlogumentary. ( i bless you with this word ) while I appreciate your disgust with the treatment of underrepresented aMericans recieved during the fair you are judging a social culture with the culture of more than 100 years i to the future. It takes away from you impeccable work. Please dont take personally this is constructive critism I value your work and am impress with your caRing heart. The tree most likely btw was fallen perished tree. Also while your clearly announced opinion of the fair being extremely racist which waS not at all. Again, society historically evovles which iz normal, and despite the indoctrinTion you have been fed it was progressive aT the time. I also loved your garb you wore AS well as your guest .you would not be accepted into polite society with out being dressed being more like your friend also.seem weird thT you seem upset by people calling city evil but your own measurement it was rAcist isnt that evil? Just things to conside r
      Inhave subscribed and donated i your chNnel name. Impressed just offering ways to improve easily done just thoughtz truly enjoyed for the most part. Will shRe

    • @JulianaBlewett
      @JulianaBlewett 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Pariah Scary needs to go.

    • @FabricofTime
      @FabricofTime 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I worked at Starbucks when one of Paul McCartney's solo albums came out (idk which one; it had a pink cover if I remember correctly) and had a promo partnership with Starbucks. They played that album ALL DAY. I think I heard the whole album at least ten times.
      I did not buy the album.

    • @ronaldmurphy2419
      @ronaldmurphy2419 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you didnt work retail enough. the music is not noticeable when you are focused on the job. grow up kid

  • @ariannahernandez4745
    @ariannahernandez4745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +818

    I took Food History recently and we discussed the chicago world fair for like a class and a half because of all the foods that came out. But lemme tell you THAT CHOCOLATE STATUE had to be protected because people were BITING IT for the silliness of it. People would apparently go crazy go silly at the fair.

    • @OuterGalaxyLounge
      @OuterGalaxyLounge 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      Still not as gross as the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral, lol.

    • @christinetassone3156
      @christinetassone3156 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      Well that disproves that previous generations behaved better.

    • @ariannahernandez4745
      @ariannahernandez4745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Proves that anyone in any age can and will be silly on occasion lol @@christinetassone3156

    • @Hippidippimahm
      @Hippidippimahm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      @@christinetassone3156people have always been people 😂 the graffiti they found in Pompeii would make you spit out your coffee!

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@HippidippimahmSo many ding-dongs.😂

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    For those who don't know, Dahomey was a kingdom in what's now Benin that lasted from 1600 to 1904. They fought the French in two wars, the first leading to giving up Porto-Novo and customs rights in Cotonou to the French in 1890, and the second leading to it to become a French protectorate in 1894 (and eventually a full colony in 1904). When it gained independence as a republic, it kept the name Dahomey until 1975 when it was renamed to Benin as Benin was deemed politically neutral for all ethnic groups. From what I found, the salty Statue of Liberty (exhibited by the UK) was twelve feet tall. Interestingly, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who sculpted the real Statue of Liberty, came back to the US in 1893 and visited the fair.
    He visited because he was exhibiting and attempting to sell more sculptures. There was a bronze pairing of Washington and Lafayette and a silver Columbus. The Columbus statue was made for the fair but was cast in Providence. After the fair, the statue returned to Providence where it was melted down and a bronze cast of it was made and it stood until 2020 (reinstalled in nearby Johnston in 2023). The Washington and Lafayette monument was not purchased in Chicago and went back to Paris. It was purchased for NYC in 1900 and is at Lafayette Square by Morningside Park. Bartholdi had hoped to display them at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Selling them in 1893 to Chicago was his backup plan. No one wanted to meet his price at the time, so he took them back home. It is unknown if he ever saw the Statue of Liberty made of salt, as it was in a different pavilion from his exhibition.

  • @howlingwolf7280
    @howlingwolf7280 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +693

    Great video Kaz. I love the idea of Kaz being the judge for if something is allowed at the fair, stood with a clipboard at the entrance
    “what is your exhibit sir?”
    “It’s a recreation of the statue of liberty using salt”
    “is it true to scale sir?”
    “No it’s made of one single slab of salt, but is only 2/3rds the size”
    Kaz shouts “Nope, if it isn’t full size, just leave” lol. Love the video, really interesting stuff.

    • @anarey-oktay2683
      @anarey-oktay2683 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      I saw a statue of Elvis made out of butter at the Texas state fair, once. Some weirdness never dies.

    • @ianloeb1672
      @ianloeb1672 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@anarey-oktay2683I can only imagine the cleanup

    • @bitchenboutique6953
      @bitchenboutique6953 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@anarey-oktay2683 The year I went, the Ohio State Fair had next to the butter cow a butter Lewis and Clark. I never felt so alive. 😂

    • @ToyInsanity
      @ToyInsanity 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      The Statue of Liberty made of salt was 12 feet tall. So 1/25th scale. Also Bartholdi was at the 1892 world's fair selling other statues.

  • @greenhouseghostie
    @greenhouseghostie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    dying at the orange cider food blogger imitation. so accurate lmao Kat sounds like every influencer on TikTok making Disney World food recommendations.

  • @kittykat34
    @kittykat34 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +392

    As a kid I watched a lot of old cartoons and was very upset to find that I could not, in fact, go to the world’s fair. Truly devastating

    • @gr33ngirlsea
      @gr33ngirlsea 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Right???

    • @AnnaMorimoto
      @AnnaMorimoto 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      You could go to the World Exposition in Osaka 2025?

    • @gr33ngirlsea
      @gr33ngirlsea 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@AnnaMorimoto ooh, I didn't know they have one!

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I went to the 1964 fair in New York, and all I remember that I liked was an exhibit of huge dinosaurs by Sinclair Gasoline. It was hot as hell and I was a cranky, sweaty 4-year-old.

    • @bd739
      @bd739 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@maryeckel9682someone on tiktok made a parody using the Sinclair promo vid for the 64 world fair and its fantastic

  • @roberthansen9294
    @roberthansen9294 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My dad born in 1918 lived in a very poor end of Brooklyn New York and even though lights were around most of the city of Brooklyn. Yet he remembered them putting electric lights in his tenement and seeing electric lights for the first time as a little boy.

  • @aznsage
    @aznsage 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

    So a note about the taxidermy--the reason why it's there is because the method that it uses was founded by Carl Akeley (the father of modern taxidermy) and was actually very new at the time to make them so realistic (he only mastered his method around 1900). His method and his own personal knowledge and experience with wildlife meant that he could accentuate things like musculature much better and make animals look as if they were alive, leading to the tableau dioramas you see at natural history museums still today. Having them be set in their natural habitat wasn't the norm until this point since this allowed visitors to see animals within their natural context and not just as parts of cabinets of curiosity. He was even the one who went to hunt the animals originally, which is part of why he had such a good grasp of their natural history and how he had photographs to work from as well. You can still see most of his famous works today at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, and the Smithsonian in DC in the diorama halls. The Hall of African Mammals here in NYC is still named after him.

  • @ComedorDelrico
    @ComedorDelrico 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The fact that you and your friend happened to be researching the same *extremely specific* historical beverage at the same time proves two things: 1. your life is awesome, 2. you have chosen your friends wisely.
    Cheers!

  • @natmorse-noland9133
    @natmorse-noland9133 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +321

    For the false orange cider, molasses and vinegar isn't THAT out there as a drink. That's basically what a shrub or switchel is - a sweetened vinegar drink. Made properly, they're actually really tasty and refreshing.

    • @christineelmore5923
      @christineelmore5923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      and good for rehydration

    • @CAPUSA
      @CAPUSA 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      I would also guess that the molasses used at the time was sweeter and lighter than the blackstrap molasses most commonly available today.

    • @jontell726
      @jontell726 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Gotta plug our boy Max Miller who made a video on the topic

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It's like lemonade, with a different acid. Consider the acid content of soda pop.

    • @raeganj6744
      @raeganj6744 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’ve made shrub and it’s pretty great

  • @JFStandhope
    @JFStandhope 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I happen to know about the salt statue of Liberty! It was from the Great Britain hall and it was carved from rock salt native to a mine there. It was 12 feet tall!

  • @Cornfedcryptid
    @Cornfedcryptid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    Shoutout for not only being one of the channels on here that consistently puts out high quality and well researched videos on understudied topics, but also actively using videos to bring awareness and donate to relevant causes. You rock! And I love your content ❤

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I like that Chicago lists key events of its city's history like the world's expo and the great fire on its flag through the stars and how each point individually stand for a value from those events. It does make a lot of sense that the Florida pavilion had the best orange cider, it is Florida after all! Nikola Tesla had stuff at the fair too! Part of the space occupied by the Westinghouse Company was devoted to demonstrations of electrical devices developed by Tesla including induction motors and the generators used to power the system. The rotating magnetic field that drove these motors was explained through a series of demonstrations including an Egg of Columbus that used the two-phase coil in the induction motors to spin a copper egg making it stand on end.
    The Egg of Columbus refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new trade route was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. After his challengers give up, Columbus does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip. Tesla himself showed up to Chicago for a week in August to attend the International Electrical Congress, being held at the fair's Agriculture Hall, and put on a series of demonstrations of his wireless lighting system in a specially set up darkened room at the Westinghouse exhibit. These included demonstrations he had previously performed throughout the US and Europe, including using a nearby coil to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp held in his hand

  • @malfattio2894
    @malfattio2894 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    The Kinetscope at the show is actually very significant. Arguably, this was the first time that the general public would see motion pictures; 3 years before the Lumiere's show in Paris.

  • @dextro_whatever
    @dextro_whatever 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I love how the dishwasher is one of the first things people thought to make once they had some form of plumbing and electricity. People have hated doing dishes forever it’s not just a modern thing. Some of my favorite examples of these types of contraptions too are the electrical elevator (invented 1880s), and of course the car. People don’t like walking very much turns out.

    • @BillLaBrie
      @BillLaBrie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The vibrator was one of the first electrified inventions.

    • @dextro_whatever
      @dextro_whatever 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BillLaBrie that is so awesome! Sex toys have existed as long as humans have used tools basically so that makes a lot of sense.

    • @BillLaBrie
      @BillLaBrie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dextro_whatever yes, and apparently so have cranky women

  • @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg
    @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +446

    One story that I've heard about how the great Chicago Fire of 1871 happened was 2 drunks fighting over a bottle of whiskey and knocking over a candle.

    • @lazarusthibodeaux
      @lazarusthibodeaux 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      Let me guess… they were also Irish.
      The Irish built the New York skyscrapers and the transcontinental railroad.
      People back then and still to this day have no appreciation for the work of immigrants.

    • @SkwithOv
      @SkwithOv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@Ok_Thanks i guess irish people are the only people who get drunk, or something

    • @lazarusthibodeaux
      @lazarusthibodeaux 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      @@Ok_Thanks I was saying that the story was probably still blaming Irish for the fire.
      The whole drunken Irishman stereotype.
      That context was left out if that’s who they were in the story.

    • @blobfish7109
      @blobfish7109 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@lazarusthibodeauxThat’s probably because the original story doesn’t specify? I’ve heard it before too, and while I don’t know the origin nor the validity, I don’t ever remember hearing the two men were Irish.

    • @biz_bee
      @biz_bee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I heard they were wrestling over the bottle and laughing, lost their footing

  • @isaacjosephh
    @isaacjosephh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    i love love love how you acknowledge the good with the bad, not discounting either. so often history is remembered through rose-tinted glasses, but it doesnt mean bad things didnt happen. we have to hold both together not only for truth, but as a recognition that even with the bad around us today we still have a lot of positives to hold onto. thank you for this awesome video kaz! you put so much thought and effort into everything you create, and that in itself is inspiring to me ❤

  • @kittea1804
    @kittea1804 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    "a thing victorians were really into for whatever reason was things made out of things that they are not" gonna absolutely destroy a victorian's grip on reality with some cake videos rn

  • @philpaine3068
    @philpaine3068 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The Mammoth Cheese was produced in the small rural town of Ingersoll, Ontario, which had cow pastures aplenty. It also had a poet by the name of James McIntyre, who wrote poems mostly about cheese, a subject which he contemplated with the same enthusiasm that Bunyan contemplated salvation and Wordsworth contemplated the infinite. Cheese was the center of McIntyre’s epistemology, eschatology, and metaphysics. The Mammoth Cheese was not only exhibited at the Columbia Exhibition, but it was sent to Paris. It premiered at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, and it's on this occasion that McIntyre wrote his masterpiece, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds." I present the poem here for your edification:
    We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
    Lying quietly at your ease,
    Gently fanned by evening breeze,
    Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
    All gaily dressed soon you’ll go
    To the great Provincial Show,
    To be admired by many a beau
    In the city of Toronto.
    Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,
    Or as the leaves upon the trees,
    It did require to make thee please,
    And stand unrivalled, queen of cheese.
    May you not receive a scar as
    We have heard that Mr. Harris
    Intends to send you off as far as
    The great World’s show at Paris.
    Of the youth beware of these,
    For some of them might rudely squeeze
    And bite your cheek, then songs or glees
    We could not sing, oh! queen of cheese.
    We’rt thou suspended from balloon,
    You’d cast a shade even at noon,
    Folks would think it was the moon
    About to fall and crush them soon.
    What can one say? McIntyre was apparently a very nice man, beloved in his community, and sincere in his dedication to the muse. In poem after poem, he celebrated the delights of turophilia, and pride in the agricultural achievements of Ontario. If you have ever sampled some of the better country cheeses of this province, such as Harrowsmith or Balderson’s, you might be tempted to place them on the same plane as salvation or the infinite. In fact, I would dare to place them on a higher plane. I don’t really have a handle on the infinite, and I don’t believe in salvation beyond the grave, but I can appreciate a good cheese.

    • @ringsystemmusic
      @ringsystemmusic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      God this comment needs to be pinned

    • @samicat2895
      @samicat2895 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Mammoth Cheese - Perth, Ontario. "In 1893, a 22,000 pound cheese known as the 'Mammoth Cheese' was produced in Perth to be exhibited in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition to promote Canadian cheese around the world. It arrived at the fair on April 25, 1893. Twelve Lanark cheese makers donated milk to the project. The Mammoth Cheese was made from milk from 10,000 cows. It was 6 feet high and 28 feet in circumference. A small portion of the 'Mammoth Cheese' is on permanent display at the Perth Museum along with the bronze medal it won.

    • @philpaine3068
      @philpaine3068 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@samicat2895 Oh My Gosheroonies!!!! There were TWO of them!!!! I didn't know about the Perth cheese. It never occurred to me that there could be two. On checking up, I see that the Ingersoll cheese was produced first, but the Perth cheese was more than twice as big! The two towns are 424.66 km (263.87 miles) apart, one west of Toronto and the other east of Toronto. I am now convinced that Ontario was the epicenter of strangeness in the 19th century. I've been to both towns, but what I remember of Perth is that it has a "Last Duel Park" which was the location of the last fatal duel in Upper Canada [in 1833] and the grave of a famous show jumping horse called Big Ben. Ingersoll I know better, having visited it several times and seen the Cheese Museum, Jake's Maple Farm, the Curling Rink (of course), the Ingersoll Theatre of Performing Arts across the street from the Tim Horton's, and at either end of town the Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre and the Dance Theatre. The Ingersollians (Ingersollvanians? Ingersollers? Ingersollites?) seem to be a more artistic bunch.

    • @missstripedsocks
      @missstripedsocks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      " Cheese was the center of McIntyre’s epistemology, eschatology, and metaphysics"...same

  • @besidekick
    @besidekick 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    If you want to read a bit about Indigenous performers at the Columbian World's Fair (and what some of them got out of it participating) one good place to start is the world fair chapter of Paige Raibmon's book Authentic Indians (2005). There's also an article I especially like about Indigenous performers at Seattle's first world's fair by Josh Reid titled "Professor Igloo Jimmie and Dr. Boombang Meet the Heathens: Indigenous Representations and the Geography of Empire at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition" in Pacific Northwest Quarterly (2010).
    (I'm a professional historian and this is an area of particular interest of mine, so happy to share more).

    • @АннаВасюкова-м1ъ
      @АннаВасюкова-м1ъ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you for sharing!

    • @vectorwolf
      @vectorwolf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I feel like 'Professor Igloo Jimmie and Dr Boombang Meet the Heathens' may be one of the best titles I've ever heard in my life.

    • @AnnieTyme
      @AnnieTyme 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very good

  • @captainbozo01
    @captainbozo01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What isn't mentioned here is that Carl Hagenbeck, the guy with the animal show, also founded the world's first zoo without bars in Hamburg.

  • @RCZeta919
    @RCZeta919 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    As a historical educator, the one thing I harp on is that no matter how different circumstances are, human nature is always the same. The reaction to that song is absolutely hilarious anecdotal evidence to that effect. 😂 Also bless you for taking your life in your own hands and trying that Evil Cider for us!

    • @Dept_Of_Ducks
      @Dept_Of_Ducks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’d come across that song years ago and would listen to a rendition on iTunes sometimes. I find it utterly hilarious to find out it caused such an uproar! I could totally see it though, it is an aggressively lilting tune.

    • @j_fenrir
      @j_fenrir 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The fact that humans are always humans is one of my favourite things about history! I love being able to understand the decisions of people from 2,000 years ago. It's such a fascinating, surreal experience to be so connected to people who are so far removed from us

  • @SpeedOfTheEarth
    @SpeedOfTheEarth 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I understand, that that was besides the point in the video, however as a german, who knows just a very limited amount, but sadly more than the average german, about Germany's colonial past:
    Carl Hagenbeck is the guy when it comes to specifically "people zoos" in german history, yet to this day not many people are aware of that dark chapter and he is still celebrated in Hamburg in particular, because of his founding of the animal zoo there.
    So yeah, his legacy is a lot darker than people often realise.

  • @Mary-os5jc
    @Mary-os5jc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +615

    Hello Kaz! As a sapphic women interested in history, you have been an extremely important part of my personal research, and my life. Whenever I have a difficult day in my small, conservative town I sit down and watch your LGBTQIA+ history videos. Your history videos have given me a window to my ancestors. You have given me historical figures I can finally relate to! So when my present seems hostile and isolating, I can look to the past to find belonging. Sorry if this seems rambling.
    TLDR: You are an important and valued person within the history community and you have impacted your views far more that you could ever comprehend! Thank you :)

    • @kj7067
      @kj7067 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      I hope you'll soon be able to find your people in the present as well. Hang in there

    • @SgtSquashington
      @SgtSquashington 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      u r both real ones :)

    • @sarahallegra6239
      @sarahallegra6239 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You are valuable and precious too! Stay strong. The world is a better place with you in it ❤

    • @jabbermocky4520
      @jabbermocky4520 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      A beautiful testimonial. Brava!

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Conversely, I as a CIS-HET man who has always fancied himself a history buff find Kaz's videos fascinating because I'm endeavoring to learn the side of history that we don't often get to hear about. I've had many friends and family members in the LGBTQIA+ family, and I feel that I should constantly be learning more about their history and experiences. I live in a horribly conservative area as well, and with so many of those trying to shut down the voices of those who should be heard, it's very important for creators like Kaz to continue the work that they're doing. Never forget that you're amazing and have a place in this world.

  • @mavrick45
    @mavrick45 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    bless the young people today. im 40 now but youtube came out when I was 20, yes, its been around that long. its very refreshing to see that young folk today still have an interest in history and are making such great videos about it. keep on keeping on, I say!

    • @themagicminstrels476
      @themagicminstrels476 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a 21 year old that absolutely scares me. I just realized how little time there is between the age of 21 and 40, and now feel a sense of urgency.

  • @ToCaKaTu
    @ToCaKaTu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    As someone who's always been interested in the 1893 World's Fair, I love that you made a video on this and especially acknowledged how racist and exploitative the fair was for people of color. That also makes me really appreciate your intentional choice for the organization you chose for this video to donate to as someone who's also from Chicago. I love your suit and look too! so much to love in this video!

  • @TheSoulCollector13
    @TheSoulCollector13 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Viking ship is actually on display in Geneva IL if you ever want to go see it in person!

  • @ricktheexplorer
    @ricktheexplorer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    As a pianist, I love Scott Joplin's music. He played a Cornet (trumpet family) with a band he put together for the 1893 World's Fair. The world was introduced to Ragtime.

    • @sircharlesmormont9300
      @sircharlesmormont9300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I don't play any more, but I did when I was a kid. I think every baby pianist gets a little giddy when introduced to a good stride hand. You play some Scott Joplin and then someone hands you a piece by Jelly Roll Morton and you're gone! My spouse used to call it my "saloon music."

  • @stevieatthemovies8186
    @stevieatthemovies8186 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Book recommendation:
    Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that details the planning and production of the world fair AND H. H. Holmes. The book is told like a narrative book and presents the facts in a really engaging way.

  • @zeeb.1763
    @zeeb.1763 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    "A city is a city is a city" THIS!!
    I find this especially striking living in an old city neighborhood in Detroit. I hear so much inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the city, but its always the same people complaining about its problems that perpetuate them. Legacy Cities like Chicago, Detroit & St. Louis and so many others deserve our respect and I'm glad to hear someone defend them!

    • @Kumanosuke
      @Kumanosuke 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True within certain areas, but not globally. Chicago or Los Angeles are a thousand times more dangerous than London, Berlin, Rome, Munich or Tokyo.
      It's not "All big cities are dangerous" but "All American cities are dangerous".

  • @hoagietime1
    @hoagietime1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I worked on a building a children's museum in Philadelphia in one of the last remaining buildings from the Centennial Exposition of 1876. There is even a model of the fairgrounds in the basement. I've stared at it for hours

  • @lindseyb2777
    @lindseyb2777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I can’t help but feel like the orange cider was the vintage version of the grimace shake…

  • @ysodora8030
    @ysodora8030 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I double checked and “After the ball” is in the public domain, based on all the sources I could find for free, including the New York public library.
    So I believe your free to play the song in its entirety without fear of a copyright strike.

  • @Arrowdodger
    @Arrowdodger 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Pigeons are truly Some Pumpkins, I agree with you there. Humans need to remember our responsibility to them. If we're going to domesticate them, we need to not abandon them once our interest wanes.

    • @ruzi.the.spider
      @ruzi.the.spider 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We have like 20 living among our chicken, part of them given away by breeders due to "wrong color" bs and others hopping by after getting lost at races and weddings and deciding to stay. The chicken eat their eggs, too, so we don´t breed. They are all gorgeous, colorful and sweet. Really just abandoned pets.

    • @AnnieTyme
      @AnnieTyme 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      After all doves.are white.pigeons species thT had version of rac izm..food.for.thought

  • @queenmimic7772
    @queenmimic7772 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I had a trip to Chicago a few months ago and the tour guide only mentioned the world’s fair to lead into the story of HH Holmes but I was eager to learn more about the fair itself. Super excited for this video!

  • @pineapplestitch1783
    @pineapplestitch1783 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I love watching these! Your outfit is splendid as always. It’s very refreshing to see a history channel discuss more unique topics. I also really enjoy the format of these videos where you bounce around topics a lot. It keeps things interesting

  • @canonescapist
    @canonescapist 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This video has taught me two things:
    1. Humanity never changes. we like to see things we’ve never seen before, we like to be amazed, and we are easily tricked into ridiculous situations by those trying to make a quick buck.
    2. The world fair should come back, but instead of all the racist exhibits, we should have exhibits that are genuinely run and managed individually by people of their representative countries. almost like how the Olympics sends forward a bunch of athletes, but instead they share their culture. Normalize foreign places. Humanize those who live on this planet with us. Really make it a WORLD fair.

  • @rachelv673
    @rachelv673 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    I love that you're promoting different charities with the ad revenue--thank you and keep up the amazing work!

  • @arcadiaberger9204
    @arcadiaberger9204 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My favorite bit of trivia regarding the 1893 World's Fair is that the (ahem) lifelong spinster Katharine Lee Bates, having crossed the amber grainfields of Kansas on her way to teach at Colorado College among the purple mountains of the west, finished the poem for which she became best known while visiting the alabaster city erected at Chicago.

  • @d.m.collins1501
    @d.m.collins1501 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

    Next, they should do the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair--it has a lot of wild stuff, including the debut of the fax machine and the x-ray machine, as well as baby incubators (with babies inside them!). It also had a lot of very creepy colonialist/imperialist/racist "anthropological" exhibits worth discussing. It also had a prominent female organizer named Florence Hayward whose contributions deserve to be publicized.

    • @bobnolin9155
      @bobnolin9155 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yes, St Louis was the world's largest human zoo. A terrible scandal, nobody remembers it. BTW, wasn't the ice cream sugar cone introduced at the 1893 Fair?

    • @crow-jane
      @crow-jane 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yes, absolutely. Just an aside…Kaz uses they/them pronouns. Carry on, as you were.

    • @ilahildasissac1943
      @ilahildasissac1943 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@bobnolin9155bYes it was.

    • @ilahildasissac1943
      @ilahildasissac1943 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have read fiction centering around the 1893 fair, and seen local exhibits about it in Chicago, in addition, watching videos about it, but this is interesting. I would like to try the orange cider.

    • @jeevikab359
      @jeevikab359 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kaz uses they/them pronouns. And I cant wait for such a video too. Hopefully they'll work on it

  • @Pushing_Daisies
    @Pushing_Daisies 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Was listening to this video while working. Zoning out for a moment and coming back to the “prison and torture exhibit” was like a punch to the gut

  • @ThaetusZain
    @ThaetusZain 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    You know what would be really good for that beef tea? Make a batch about 4x the size. Add a lot of onions, celery, carrots and potatoes before simmering. Add more salt than you think you need (but not by too much) and a bunch of savory spices. Remove the beef, chop it up fine, add it back to the mixture, simmer for a while longer and eat it all with a spoon.
    If you just add a lot more veggies (a portion of them added in about the time you would chop up the beef) you can even remove the beef entirely.

    • @kaykeunil
      @kaykeunil 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Isn’t this just stew? Which I love, but what you’re describing is stew

    • @Yaremaa
      @Yaremaa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Baby… you got a stew going… Carl weathers

    • @ThaetusZain
      @ThaetusZain 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kaykeunil That was the joke. lol

    • @MissingRaptor
      @MissingRaptor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I do love that beef tea is an underseasoned concentrated beef broth made for people who need the extra nutritional punch. Nothing more weird than that. I think that the wording just gets to people. It used to get to me before I learned how to make it.

    • @mackereltabbie
      @mackereltabbie 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ❤soooouuuuup❤

  • @Rozdlc
    @Rozdlc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If it makes you feel better, Karl Hagenbeck was against using fear and cruelty for training wild animals and focused on patience and searching for more human ways to train and keep animals in captivity. It's still sad that they're performing for human entertainment instead of living in their natural habitat, but at least the animals were treated than other ones in similar acts. Taking them on walks around the fair was dangerous and dumb though.

  • @ManySeconds
    @ManySeconds 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    Can I just take this small space to say I LOVE that you gave Tutter his own little appropriate hat! Thanks for the giggle there 🙂

    • @hillerymcdonald2303
      @hillerymcdonald2303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Me too!!! And I love that Tutter's hat matches Kaz's hat. So whimsical. Kaz is the best.

  • @EricBrado
    @EricBrado 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just found ur channel,1st video I’ve seen you cover a lot of super interesting cool things & you clearly do really solid research amazing content

  • @OuterGalaxyLounge
    @OuterGalaxyLounge 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I've been obsessed with the fair for most of my life. I bought some old Chicago Historical Society museum magazines at the museum back in the 1980s and one of them had a great layout and text about the fair. I'm always bummed that too much emphasis has been placed on HH Holmes, because the fair itself is way more interesting (and a lot of the sensational stuff about Holmes, including the alleged murder castle, were press fabrications) and the fair would be my number one destination for my mythical time machine. Thanks for this respectful look at this grand and weird event.

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did they have any magazines about the Eastland Disaster of 1915? I'm a bit curious now.

    • @jessigirlrae1688
      @jessigirlrae1688 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Have you heard the wild tartaria theories in regards to the world fair? It's crazy and bizarre.

    • @QueenOfTheNorth65
      @QueenOfTheNorth65 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’ve been obsessed with it since I moved to the Chicago are in the late 80’s. After I read “Devil In The White City” I was REALLY obsessed!

  • @mossydog2385
    @mossydog2385 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think you would love John Dos Passos' USA trilogy. Always heard that Dos Passos work was excessively cerebral and tedious, but I found the opposite. At any rate, it's an excellent street level view of the country when it was young..at least the 20th century country. Love your work Kaz, thank you!

  • @bellaroo5508
    @bellaroo5508 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Yay Kaz!! So excited!! I learned about the 1893 World's fair in high school because of required reading of "The Devil in the White City" and it's always been interesting to me since then!

  • @skyefirenails
    @skyefirenails 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You doing a monthly charity payment is so sweet. I love that idea. Thank you so much for caring about the community and wanting to give back. I can't donate myself, but I will do everything I can to support you for your donations. 💜

  • @jordanspear5090
    @jordanspear5090 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I literally squeal whenever I see a notification that a new Kaz video is out!

    • @kelsorose9236
      @kelsorose9236 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I had been waiting for days 😂😂😂😂

  • @philhatch483
    @philhatch483 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The song 'After The Ball' is featured in the show Carnivale S1ep2. Thanks for the history and newsclips about that catchy little tune!

  • @idkanymore790
    @idkanymore790 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I'm from the mommoth cheese town. thanks for your kind words regarging our beautiful cheese

  • @GiantPetRat
    @GiantPetRat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Kaz doing the food blogger imitation at 24:13 had me rolling. SPOT. ON.

  • @hadleynewton5457
    @hadleynewton5457 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    St. Louisan here!! The Ferris wheel was amazing here as well. As I remember for the 1904 worlds fair they actually had one of the cars dressed to be a wedding venue and a bunch of people got married there. Also they don't know where the axel is, at one point it was supposed to go to Coney island I believe, but that deal fell through for some reason and its rumored to be under a road, in forest park, or it may have been dismantled for steel for train tracks.

  • @Lexekiel
    @Lexekiel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Also, the story of the men mailing themselves there sounds hilarious and I wish Kaz had told us more about it lmao

  • @morningmercury-amhg
    @morningmercury-amhg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Lovely video as always! A museum near my hometown has a small part of the 1893 World's Fair; Tiffany glassworks designed and built a byzantine inspired chapel that was just meant to be used as a space to showcase ecclesiastical supplies but it's Tiffany so the whole space is a total work of art. It ended up being transported to Tiffany's estate in New York, was left abandoned after his death, and nearly destroyed by a fire in the 50's. It ended up being transported to Winter Park, FL and it's a part of the Morse Museum there. Highly recommend checking it out if you're ever in the area, they have a huge collection of Tiffany works and other Victorian/Edwardian/early 20th century art (tho they don't have the orange cider, fake floridians smh).

  • @lauraweiss7875
    @lauraweiss7875 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lifetime Chicagolander here. The Field Museum was also built for the 1893 Worlds Fair. Cheers!

  • @taylorslade961
    @taylorslade961 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "Miscellaneous slops" is my new favorite turn of phrase. Beautiful. A testament to the English language.

  • @DKF_oli
    @DKF_oli 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I read “the devil in the white city” front to back, ravenously tbh, when I was most recently in prison. I’ve been released on probation for nearly 3 years at this point, and the subject matter instantly became my “Roman empire”. I almost certainly think about and reference it every single day. 😂 So of course I clicked as soon as this came up in my feed.

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's really a book with something for everyone. I'm honestly surprised that no one has made a movie based on it. Glad it helped you pass the time in prison.

    • @kaydeedid
      @kaydeedid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved the book and have cult classic like reread it a few times.

  • @NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois
    @NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    I wanted to wear a suit to a funeral but got such an akward cold shoulder for the idea that I gave up, swallowed my dysphoria and wore a dress as expected. Seeing you look so awesome in a suit makes me wish I had been brave instead 😭.
    For anyone wondering I doubt the dead body would have been insulted by my choice of formal wear both for being dead, and for being such an open-minded and loving person who always let people be who they wanted. Like I never saw her say anything weird about her gay grandchild, their wedding or their child.

  • @Snarkyhippie
    @Snarkyhippie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In 2015 I was working at a Lego convention…shortly after The Lego Movie came out. They played Everything Is Awesome all day, open to close, for THREE straight days. Nothing was awesome for a very long time.

  • @k9feline2
    @k9feline2 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My favorite story about Chicago's reputation is when my Dad was staying in Paris for about a year from 1968-69, and while he was there, there was some kind of violent gangland shooting at a place called the Etoile. The Parisian newspapers had a headline that (translated) read, "It was Chicago at the Etoile!" Dad knew what that meant.

    • @Dept_Of_Ducks
      @Dept_Of_Ducks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’d never knowingly heard Chicago used in this way before, but reading your message reminded me that I actually have-a band I knew had a song titled Chicago Typewriter. If it weren’t for the lyrics I’d never have caught they meant a Tommy gun!

  • @5autumndream
    @5autumndream 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for continuing to say to wear a mask. As someone disabled from long Covid I really appreciate it!

  • @ScarletRebel96
    @ScarletRebel96 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    It is -8 °F and snowing here in Colorado right now so thanks for the upload on this snowy house trapped day Kaz! ❤

  • @neomotlow7095
    @neomotlow7095 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey thanks for doing a video on Chicago and it’s worlds fair, it’s a city that has always facilitated me, keep up the videos, your channel is gem, and to anyone reading this, hope your day and night goes well thnx for ur time 💎 ❤

  • @bricksloth6920
    @bricksloth6920 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Yay, I like learning more about the 1893 World's Fair. Also, since we accepted the cat from the fates, we're apparently now on the fates mailing list because a cattle dog mix appeared on our porch (in the deep country. A quarter of a mile to the nearest neighbor as the crow flies. Most roads around here are gravel.)
    So we have a new dog. Yay us

  • @dipperpotter2491
    @dipperpotter2491 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Kaz! so happy to see your first vid of 2024! your channel brings me so much joy and interesting knowledge

  • @Cornfedcryptid
    @Cornfedcryptid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Would love to see a sister video on the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair! There’s also lots of zany stories surrounding it, and a few structures from it still being used today (like the waterfowl building at the zoo 😄)

    • @jaysea3690
      @jaysea3690 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think I'm right in saying the 1904 Summer Olympics took place at the same time as the St Louis World's Fair. I know the marathon of that Olympics especially has a story or two to tell.

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jaysea3690some Pretty Good stories to tell

    • @madhatty-fq1sh
      @madhatty-fq1sh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read that at the 1904 fair there was essentially a butter sculpture competition with 12 states represented by 300 entries. The Wisonsin entry was a life sized cow and milkmaid. And one of the Minnesota entries was a life sized statue of a priest being rowed in a conoe by Native Americans ( that alone using 1,000 lbs of butter). Crazy to think how they kept all those structures from metling and structurally sound in 1904.

  • @lordnul1708
    @lordnul1708 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You know what After the ball sounds like the equivalent of?
    This is the song that doesn't end.
    It just goes on and on my friend...
    Somebody started singing it not knowing what it was
    And they'll be singing it forever just because
    And now it's in your head too.

  • @RianShafer
    @RianShafer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I always love when a new video from you pops up, I will literally stop whatever I am doing to watch them. I've said it before but if my school days had even ONE history teacher like you, I'd have been into history long before my 30s. I've always said if I were to teach, it would be History which I'd make fun & interesting. You do exactly that!

    • @crazybiogeek
      @crazybiogeek 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A good teacher makes all the difference. I was fortunate enough to have a teacher who made history interesting. He moved to our city before school started and then left after the school year, so my class was the only class (in our district) to have this teacher, and it's such a shame. He liked to go on random tangents about torture devices. His favorite saying was, "Mother's baby, father's maybe" and then would go on a lecture about how men did unhinged and terrible stuff to secure themselves an "heir", and how women had to suffer for men to be "sure" that a baby was theirs, and how that affected X part of history. Then he'd go on tangents about riots that happened during his (present day) travels, etc.

  • @Jellyfish146
    @Jellyfish146 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Hurry dear, bring your orange cider, the torture exhibit is going to close soon!"

  • @xxmerrydeathxx
    @xxmerrydeathxx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The perception of Chicago as uniquely dangerous is so wild to me. When I moved from a different Midwestern state to the suburbs of Chicago, so many of my friends/coworkers asked if I was concerned about getting shot. As someone who grew up visiting Chicago frequently and never felt unsafe, that was just so baffling to me.

    • @Ace_Three3s
      @Ace_Three3s 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      O'block...

    • @VultureSkins
      @VultureSkins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The suburbs aren’t quite the same as the areas people tend to think of when they think “Chicago Crime” lol. There’s more playing into you never feeling unsafe than you seem to realize

    • @rightsarentpolitical
      @rightsarentpolitical 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My favorite is when I hear about "scary Chicago" from fellow Texans. I'm like, my dude, are you aware of where we live and how often road rage murders happen and because of our piss poor lax gun culture no one is ever held accountable? HERE, where we literally have legislatures forcing guns into schools for the 'safety' of the kids we continue to have murdered in their classrooms? Have you not searched 'gun left in school bathroom'? You can give them all the evidence and facts about Chicago's guns coming from Indiana, or it actually being REALLY low on the murder per capita list in the US, but it's always going to circle back to Chicago. It's mind boggling, and yes - always comes down to racism.

    • @voxicwaste
      @voxicwaste 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Depends where you live. I don't think the suburbs would be a problem for you. The fact you've never felt unsafe in Chicago is more baffling to me and speaks volumes lol

  • @madelineia
    @madelineia 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    it’s always a good day when kaz uploads.

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Viking ships: Modern reconstructions of Viking Age ships look a little different and, in my eyes, more elegant.
    In Oslo they have a museum where they exhibit preserved Viking ships: Gokstad-ship, Oseberg-ship Tune-ship. There is also a Viking ship museum in Roskilde. In both places, they build the new Viking ships by original methods as part an experimental archaeology learning process.
    The clunky Victorian viking ship reconstruction still show up in illustrations all the time.
    And a side note: the danish word for Ferris wheel is Paris wheel. (Pariserhjul) No one is aware of this Ferris person. Haha!

    • @voiceofraisin3778
      @voiceofraisin3778 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yeah but modern reconstructions are working from actual viking ships, Oseberg wasnt discovered till 20 years after Chicago. Before that they were working from descriptions, manuscripts and wild guesses.

    • @JenxRodwell
      @JenxRodwell 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And in Bulgarian, it's called a Vienna Wheel :D I suspect just wherever people first ran into the thing is what ended up being the term for it.

    • @bib4eto656
      @bib4eto656 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@JenxRodwell I was just gonna comment that, thought there is a big one in Vienna.

    • @estebancaro2334
      @estebancaro2334 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's so funny about the name Ferris Wheel in English is different from other countries or languages. In Spanish, when translated to English, is called the "wheel of fortune" - rueda de la fortuna. 😅

  • @isaacthedruid
    @isaacthedruid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the mammoth cheese was actually made by my town in Ontario, Canada! i got jumpscared when i saw the picture of it because i drive by the metal case for the cheese all the time!

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I grew up literally on the remains of the San Francisco Worlds Fair, Treasure Island.
    Like walking around derelict ruins from the past.
    Like I was 8 and doing urbex before it was cool

  • @nbdjz1058
    @nbdjz1058 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    i'm a history student and i absolutely love kazs videos, i wish my lectures were as interesting

  • @k.bart.parkinglot
    @k.bart.parkinglot 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Let's bring World's Fairs back (minus the problematic stuff obviously)

    • @ztl2505
      @ztl2505 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They’re still around! Although they unfortunately don’t make nearly the same splash anymore. The last one was in Kazakhstan in 2017.

    • @k.bart.parkinglot
      @k.bart.parkinglot 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@ztl2505 that exciting to hear!

    • @WariorOfPeace
      @WariorOfPeace 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They haven’t come to the USA since 1984 (presumably the 1996 bombing at the Olympics scared off the International Expo committee). The last one was actually in Dubai in 2020 (held in 2021 due to the pandemic). The next is in Osaka Japan in 2025. Minneapolis Minnesota bid for the 2027 worlds fair last June but was turned down in favor of Belgrade Serbia. The us wont have another shot at hosting until 2033 at the soonest because 2030 was chosen for Riyadh Saudi Arabia

    • @653j521
      @653j521 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@WariorOfPeace Cost overruns, and let's face it, people can stay home and see amazing things online. When was the last one that ended in the black?

  • @duskoid7360
    @duskoid7360 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the chicago fire was awful but here is a fun fact, the same day as the chicago fire there was a fire in Wisconsin called the Peshtigo fire, it killed 5x as many people and burned 1.2 million acres of land (chicago lost 2,112 acres) its intresting to see that both horrible things to happen but since chicago was bigger it got the coverage (300 people in the chicago fire died, the Pestigo fire on the other hand killed anywere between 1,500-2,500 people its hard to tell though because they keep finding more dead people and there wasnt a great record)

  • @noodlesauce2553
    @noodlesauce2553 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Yay!!! It’s always a good day when Kaz drops some historical knowledge on us ❤❤❤

  • @alizarogers2343
    @alizarogers2343 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh my gosh, I love the idea of donating to charities that relate to your content! That's fabulous!!

  • @kinghenryxl1747
    @kinghenryxl1747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I hope Kaz does a video about Gore Vidal one day. That guy had a wild life AS AN OPENLY QUEER WRITER IN THE 1950s & 60s and sparked a decades-old debate about the queer-undertones of his cinematic masterpiece, BEN-HUR (1959)

    • @cristyrogers8461
      @cristyrogers8461 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Omg I'd never heard of himthank you for sharing!!

    • @call_rickey
      @call_rickey 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don’t believe he’s done a video about Gore Vidal (yet, lol), but check out Matt Baume’s channel if you’re looking for more queer Hollywood history :)

  • @Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend
    @Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The algorithm found me 4 months late. I was looking for a video like this months ago. Imagine how crazy it would be to experience the world fair. You have some of the greatest inventors of all time in one place, amazing food, exotic animals. Anything you could imagine

  • @Elektrochoke
    @Elektrochoke 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    28:10 I love it, Vikings went to the American continent first, what a way to make the statement 😂😂😂

  • @jack2breeze
    @jack2breeze 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That After The Ball song story reminds me of another true story of a newlywed couple who move into their new home on an island and the wife played a piano but only had one piece of music. Anyhow he took his axe and well, I believe you can guess how it ends.

  • @patmccrotch3699
    @patmccrotch3699 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Id love to hear you do this to the '39 fair but id also love to hear you do a deeper dive into the '64 New York world fair.

  • @SanFranFan30
    @SanFranFan30 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you should research the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, it's absoluttely buck wild in a similar way that the 1893 one was. I took an entire semester long course in college on the fair as I went to school in St. Louis and there is some really really dark stuff that went on like human zoos, eugenics stuff and the like. The other thing that made this event even more chaotic was that the city of St. Louis strong armed the city of Chicago into giving away the Summer Olympics so there was also the 1904 Olympics happening at the same time in essentially the same place.

  • @emmi5036
    @emmi5036 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    the 3 fetuses on the ground came out of left field and left me bewildered

  • @MamaGator
    @MamaGator 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So much appreciation to your videos. The charity aspect of this video and going forward is endlessly beautiful and perfect to me.
    I’m going to go enjoy so many of your videos now, because your content is exactly my cup of tea just wow tysm- you’re such a talent! Hope you’re doing good 🫡

  • @noodles2459
    @noodles2459 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    30:09 How is "After the Ball" not in the public domain.

  • @skoo4221
    @skoo4221 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for giving pigeons the love and appreciation they deserve!!! Pigeons are so wonderful and sweet and indeed very misunderstood. Thank you for another great video as well, of course!! 🖤

  • @dozykisses
    @dozykisses 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    having a rough day so this was such a nice notif to see! really looking forward to cozying in with a fun ranking vid! and may I just say that the fact that you're still masking + have it as part of your outro is very heartening

  • @BMoney8600
    @BMoney8600 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My family has been in Chicago since 1904 and we are still here. It’s my favorite city because it is truly in a league of its own, the architecture, the people, the history, the food, all the cultures and so much more is absolutely incredible to me.

  • @lamibonxd
    @lamibonxd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    ugh world fairs fascinate me!! super excited for this one :0)

  • @jillianmaryxo
    @jillianmaryxo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    can't help but think the evil orange cider was the 1880s version of malort that you would make your friends from out of town drink on a dare 🤣