50 Greatest Historical Events That Never Happened 

i know what paper is and I can read, but what's "writing"?

You just must attack the Bible. Sadly you will answer for this.

You can't say 50 greatest historical events that never happend, then say May or May not have transpired ..... come on now

Got a big one for ya.... Mohammed of islam is a fictional character..... and there's no historical record for the "great" city of mecca b4 the invent of islam

No maps.. not mentioned by Roman's Syrians... Persians... not a word

he is real but he's demonstrably wrong about 25% of the time.

@@tripsaplenty1227😂😂😂

The problem with this comment is that if you actually watch his channels, it's very apparent that he actually knows nothing about anything he talks about. He just reads scripts. He's done videos on someone on biographics, then he does a casual criminalist on the same person and reads the script and he stops every 5 seconds cause he's shocked by something he just read. I'm not complaining, I love simon, and his side stories are fun, but this is a fact.

I heard he had long flowing hair the likes of which all Vikings envy.

@@that_celtics_fan dude, don't be "that guy"

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The story about the 300 Spartans fighting alone did not originate in ancient Greece though, did it? Because Herodotus never claimed such a thing.

@@jake_ Personally I view it more as a national folklore and the numbers the Simon described seems more realistic than 300 dudes against a literal army

​@legendaryhunter1672 was never JUST 300 dudes. There were other men there as well from other city state while 300 of them were from Sparta. It's just that history remembers (due to pop culture and recent films) that we remember it otherwise.

@@jake, well I mean 300 Spartans plus their squires/helots and 700 thespians are the ones who fought the final battle to the last man. Most of the other Allie’s either fled or were ordered away by king leonidas. Depends on who you believe on the last part. The 300 tend to get the credit because they were the ones in charge and had accepted the duty of being the final rear guard to buy time for Greece at large

If your mother gave birth to your friend, then that person is your brother/sister,, and not your friend

@@nickychimes4719 Correct but I said "Friend's mom" not "my mom" so this friend, nor her mother (father or brother) are related to me in anyway. Hence they are a friend not a brother or sister ;)

@@CartoonHero1986 learn to write properly

@@nickychimes4719 Other then issues with run on sentences there isn't anything wrong with what I wrote. It clearly denotes "my friend's mom." Are you perhaps confused by the term "mom-friend"? Which is a reference to the kind of person/friend that becomes highly protective and maternal in their behaviour when entertaining. Like those friends that are always asking you if you've had lunch/dinner, or check in on you like someone mom rather than casual friend. You doing okay there? You kind of randomly went off twice for no reason.

@@nickychimes4719learn to read properly, he’s clearly correct and didn’t edit because there isn’t an edited note

People who put stainless steel exteriors on buildings have to monitor the heat generated at reflection points because they’ve started fires on buildings the sun’s rays are reflected on. And the myth busters are a poor source.

Did you hear that since then, Brenden Sener set up a different experiment that shows the Ray might actually have worked? He's 13 years old!! It was a project he was working on for a science fair!! 😂 MIT also ran their own experiments and came to the conclusion it could have been a real, working weapon, btw. There were two big problems with Myth busters. It was a reality TV show, so everything ran on a comparatively tight schedule, and was focused on entertainment with time constraints, which will never be really ideal for science...so when they proved something was possible, that was usually reliable, but when they failed to prove it possible, that often wasn't really a very airtight negative. Look at that first season with the "urban legend" about the guy running at a skyscraper window and breaking it to plummet to his death. They couldn't make it happen. The window set up in their studio was SO strong. But they tried and tried and TRIED till it did.... because the newspaper article had already been dug up by the research team that showed it DID happen IRL. Without that article, they'd surely have declared it busted. The second problem is that our schools dont train the public well in logic or experimental methodology, so of course, we remember Myth Busters conclusions as the last word on a subject. But while it's a good show, their negatives are often NOT the last word. The format has big limitations.

Sure some Greek Prof got it to work with individually aimed polished shields decades ago. Also they supposedly changed the system after Einstein's result from 6 being high to 1, and heard Marie Antoinette's quote was her aunt.

I remember watching a history show that was either on BBC or Channel 4, featuring Dan Snow and Adam Hart-Davis. and they did it, they made a wooden frame covered in small mirrors that could be individually adjusted, took it to Crete and tried it on a model boat and it worked. the thing is I suspect it didn't set fire to the boats but the sails which would have been much faster and cause chaos. ADDENDUM I have found the show its "What the Ancients Did for Us" from the BBC in 2005. unfortunately the ancient Greek episode is not on youtube.

​@@GreatSageSunWukongyeah they'd have been mad not to target the sails. Much easier target and with that much burning cloth flying around its highly likely many ships caught fire due to the amount of oil and others flammable stuff they'd have had on board. It's why they were so worried about even a contained flame let alone the sails going up on ships full of soldiers who'd panic and get in the way unlike possibly trained, experienced sailors who'd have known how to deal with it.

I always just imagine him saying ouchimus and falling over...

It just says arrrgh

Shakespeare's version is better, accurate or not.

@thirdcoast2995 That's subjective, a matter of opinion. Most people prefer the truth over lies...

Those are words of a coward not a Caesar

Hmm, the reminds me of “eye for an eye” law. The reason the law was made was so the people wouldn’t go over board with their revenge. So you only killed the man who your father instead of going in to his house killing him, raping his wife and daughters ( or taking the daughters as sex slaves) then killing them with his sons and household and burning and salting the earth so the land is forever cursed/unusable in case a person did some how survive the rampage.

@@MrSophire Rome: "I don't see anything wrong with this."

Was likely? This is such poor science. You decide "you" dont belive it , so you say it is so. Well done.

What does science have to do with literature or written word???​@@AbnerSolano

@@AbnerSolano history isn't a science... history is a LIBERAL ART... so is literature... the bible is literature... next time, pull out a dictionary or just look it up online if you don't own an actual paper dictionary.

The bible was written by scribes from Judea. They attributed stuff done by leaders of the northern Hebrew state of Israel to David and Solomon. Watch Kedem a brilliant channel. Series of 24 half hour conversations with Israel Finklestein. Archaeologist. Also lectures by others on Oriental Institute channel. The bible both old and new testaments isnt just literature its part fact, part faction and part fiction.

​@@lesliekilgore648Historical narrative

Before continuing to condemn Benedict Arnold as a coward and traitor, maybe you could take a little bit of time and do some factual research on him and afterwards come back and comment on what you found out about him. He is one of the most misrepresented people in American history.

I have this hatchet in my collection. Near mint condition, the head was replaced only once and the handle twice.

@@todddenio3200Ehh, yes and no. Was Arnold disrespected within the US military despite his heroics? Absolutely. But regardless of how you look at it, he is a traitor. He betrayed the army he had sworn his loyalty to in turn for favors given by their opposition.

​@@RockBrentwoodThis is great 😂😂

When I was a child, the other kids would say "I cannot tell a lie. Popeye did it."

Hahaha this killed me 😂

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Thank god….i thought Atlas was an ancient dwarf trying to ten pin bowl!?

Clever!!

Bah! Next you’ll be saying Sigma male isn’t a thing. If I wasn’t Sigma what I would be doing with all these DMT and raw elk??

Those “alpha males” are like alpha software. Unstable, irrational, and not ready to be released into public.

Yessssss!

​@@billyjoemacallister9524 😂 right? And a "sigma wolf" just describes a grown male son who is off trying to find a mate. I saw the saddest thing one day....questions online where people were trying to find out if Sigma came before Alpha in the Greek alphabet, to I guess confirm that their ideas that they were "Sigma" personalities also meant they were better than an Alpha male. I wanted to take them by the shoulders and be like "oh honey, no ...please, you can't get your education off of Reddit and TikTok, this is no good"

​@billyjoemacallister9524 don't forget the bears.

I thought it was the 14th doctor. Also, what is this gravity you speak of? Did you mean mavity?

Actually, it’s gravy tea. A rather odd comestible derived by straining day old gravy through a paper filter in an attempt to render something useful from a nasty leftover. The laws of motion describe the convulsions that follow the consumption of the gravy tea.

​@@Mrgoofyoops 😂

Archimedes actually said: "I'm a streaker!"

No russel t davis you can’t rewrite history the way your rewriting the basis plot of doctor who lemme guess newton overcame gravity by the power of being a woman and despite being a literal genius he didn’t realise he could just let it go

Ashamed to admit it, but I laughed

@pabrowncoatbrewer7154 Pretty sure plenty of folks told that joke.

@@utterlyviolet Others very well may have. But not on Philadelphia radio when I was of school age. John Dabella was that DJ.

I’ve never heard this story, but Lionel Ritchie has a very similar one.

I have a similar story. An old, strange looking man walked into a "forever 18" store and bought a ton of cheap jewerelly. A friend of mine worked there. Turned out, it was Alice Cooper who bought some "dirty Diamonds" to throw to the audience in his "dirty Diamonds" Tour. I was at the concert, he threw cheap jewellery into the crowd.

​@@oldfrittenfett1276 I went to an Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie show. I had guitar picks thrown right on me and I got swamped... Everyone's beers spilled on me... My own beer as well.. I couldn't even get a hold of a pick 😂 A person gave me one though 😅 I didn't see what Alice threw out in our crowd but he threw stuff as well by the handful.

​@@rosemadder5547 I got hit with and snatched Korn's drumstick while in the mash pit at an Ozzy concert (and DefTones) when I was 17. I had the drumstick and concert ticket framed and still have it almost 30 years later 😊 🙏🏼 So awesome someone gave you one after being mauled bc of them 😅

Alice Cooper has a syndicated classic rock radio program. Listening to him on the program and how calm and normal he is makes me find him the God father of shock rock pretty funny.

Me too.

same

John's reign began in a bad way. The nation was bankrupted by his brother Richard, who was legendary for selling whatever he could to fund his crusade to the holy land. He then shipwrecked on the way back home in Germany and costed a huge ransom. Then Richard died of a siege wound, and John then had to raise taxes on his Baron's which angered them, and caused the whole Magna Carta thing. It's also kind of hard to fund wars to keep your lands in France if you got no money to do it. Maybe he was a bad king too, but he was dealt a bad hand to start with.

​@@algini12I have a fondness for John. If he and the Pope had both been a bit less stubborn, things might have worked out better for him.

Right? What would Gaul have to say about whether violence is an appropriate political tool, Caesar? (Side note, my autocorrect kept Cha ging Gaul to Gail, which made me laugh out loud. I'm picturing a lady with a burgundy sweater and a Brooklyn accent, sticking her nose into the room and being like, "See, Caesah?? What did I keep telling you?? Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword!!"

@@melissasaint3283 Not even Gaul itself. Afaik, even the Roman senators protested against his exceptional violence during his campaigns there.

Not really

It's the equivalent to "Dr. Strangelove" 's scene: Gentlemen! You can not fight here. This is the war room.

Factually, he's correct. I mean, MURDER truly is a violent act. I'm not sure that any human being would be inclined to disagree with that logic.

Same here. Mine printed off a whole chapter of lurid tales, and gave it to us to take home and read. He gleefully said that he was peddling smut. There was also a story about Rasputin having a massive wart-covered wang and Martin Luther dying on the toilet trying to poop.

He sounds like Alfred Hitchcock at 0.5x speed. 😅

Hahaha. The hypocrisy is ironic too. A fictional story about the first American president is falsely represented as fact, all for the purpose of teaching kids that you should NEVER tell a lie under ANY circumstances.

Naked Gun 33 1/3, the prison shower scene 😅

That’s going to chafe my willie….

Regarding this segment ... i never thought that i would love to hear Simon imitating "fap" sound.

Fetch the locksmoth

Mel Brooks genius.

THIRTEEN!!

He also said he went to the hospital that night for rabies shots

Yep, I remember that VH1 interview.

Oh, I didn't see the VH1 interview. The one I saw was recent, like last year. He was with his son.

Um... biting off a dead bat's head is _not_ enticing your fans to kill a bushel of live kittens. That can hardly be considered "true." Perhaps it's "the strangest game of telephone ever," but I certainly wouldn't call it "true."

I imagine that was entirely true. That said, I am imagining that which how drug-addled his brain is, he could have just heard the story third-hand and created a memory of it being true.

According to Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, Caesar's wife lamented after the fact, "I told him. I told Julie, 'Don't go!', but he went..."

Impossible. The English language didn’t exist yet then.

Or ‘for whut! I didn’t do nothing!’

@@j.a.weishaupt1748Much English is derived from Latin. Your move.

You can't beat Carry-on's "Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me."

Depends if you believe the Knights Templars version or not

@@m.c.martin What the hell are you talking about? The Templars were wiped out almost 200 years before Colombus's voyage and they had nothing to do with Atlantic exploration.

@@samrevlej9331 well they fractured into a bunch of small groups, but they still referred to themselves as that behind closed doors, allegedly

@@samrevlej9331Because Columbus had a Templar-looking cross on his sails and his father-in-law was part of the order that was a sort of successor to the Templars, a lot of conspiracy crackpots have cooked up fanciful theories about links between them, and secret earlier Templar visits to the new world. None of this is taken seriously by real historians.

There have been arguments that European fishermen knew of the Americas but did not reveal the locations of their fishing grounds, it is possible some royal advisors knew about this but recognized that trying to explain to Columbus that his math was wrong would be unnecessary since he was already happy to sail off into almost certain death.

I so hated the stock market as a kid. (Dad was a broker). Dividing dollars into bizarre decimals made no sense. But they apparently liked it 🤷🏽‍♂️

And the phrase "two bits" meant 2/8 of a real eventually meaning $0.25.

@williambowling8211 I said that though.

I'm no numismatist, but I'm pretty sure a silver Spanish peso and a silver dollar are not the same coin.

@@ThatWriterKevin The peso (at the time also called a "Spanish dollar") was not exactly the same as the later US silver dollar, but if you said "dollar" to a colonial American, they'd take you to be referring to the peso. See the Wikipedia article "Spanish dollar" for a starting point.

And that's why Count Duckula (A 1980s British TV cartoon character) was portrayed as a vegetarian, I'll bet!

Vlad the Vegan?

Vlad the Putin works for me.

We (germany) had a child show "Castle Einstein" and the opening song had a line "even Einstein had a D in math and was later a total genius (Selbst Einstein hatte nur ne 4 in Mathe und war später mal total genial.)

​@@Lodrik18maybe it was about an unannounced trigonometry test? Anyway D is not bad grade, with A you would become manager in big corporation and would know sun only from CEO's and low level employees stories...

​@@Lodrik18so this A/1/6 was normal grade, or extraordinary, so C/3/4 is just "not perfect" while 100% on test means B/2/5?

​@@schizoafekt In Switzerland it is basically like that: 6 perfect, 5 good, 4 just sufficient, and everything less than 4 is not passing a test.

@schizoafekt D (or 4) is mostly considered as a bad grade in germany. But that is not the point Lodrik18 did want to make. 🙂 The song he mentioned (like the show) is well known by the millennials in germany. The 4 there is just an artistic choice (better rhythm than 5 or 6). But it plays into the myth that Einstein allegedly did had bad grades in school.

im surprised they havent spammed the comment section yet

@@matthewfors114 They have no interest in learning about actual history

Nah, man. It's hollow, not flat. Keep up with the trends.

My theory is that the flat earthers really know better, but like to trigger the pompous. I've thought about claiming it myself.

@@banhammer3904 nah man, its the moon thats hollow. didnt you see that docudrama "moonfalL"?

Maybe Nero diddled while Rome burned?

Basically a Berliner Pfannkuchen. Tried to buy some Berliner in Bavaria, which got a shocked response in the bakery, because they had a special kind of bread they called Berliner Landbrot (and they did not have that many loafs of bread left for just one buyer). The sweet stuff I really wanted to buy went as Krapfen there. Today the jam gets injected into the dough and if you start eating the thing with those vampire marks facing away from you, it might end quite messy😋

"Outside of Berlin" meaning outside of East Germany. And don't even get me started about Plinze.

@@LisaBeta-42 Well, quite a unique experience there lol. In Cologne there's a different type of pastry called Krapfen, so when I ordered a Krapfen there, expecting a Berliner, they explained to me that it's something else around here, instead of just handing the wrong thing to me.

Actually, that’s a misconception. His true last words were: “Ravioli, ravioli, give me the land reformuoli!”

@@TheDmitriProject Actually, that's a misconception. His true last words were: "Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro, Magnifico."

​@@kalajelwas he just a poor boy from a poor family?

@@kalajelthese last two comments are epic

@@damianjblackepic 😂😂😂

I was gonna say this but then I realized it’s Simon, he has been unconscious until these shows started

Come on now, the dude just regurgitates information in an entertaining manner. He isn't some genius.

Brutus was a hero. Sic semper tyrannis! (Motto of Commonwealth of Virginia, not a suggestion)

This comment is better than the video.

He’s taking a page out of HeckleFish’s book of pronunciations!

That’s where Newton got his idea about gravity.

Yes,these events did take place,I saw them with my own eyes.😵‍💫..a beautiful sight to behold.😍 The protests that is. 🤨

sorry, but not your Country, OURS... the story is about OUR ladies and protests in the US, not yours. you guys have your stories, we have ours. Simon specifically said the story was about American women.

I like the song that Donovan recorded about Atlantis... 🎶"Waaay down below the ocean..."🎶

He’s gonna feel so dumb when he learns about the Stargate.

Yea but when they got to that far away galaxy the Wraith wound up hunting them into extinction unless they ascended, is the story I heard.

Bend your kozars!

This “paradox” is just a word trick. If you are traveling from point A to point B, yes, you can slice the distance into infinitesimally small slices. But what is left out, is that it also requires an _infinitesimally short_ period of time to cross that distance. If you are traveling at a constant speed, the amount of time required is directly proportional to the distance covered, it doesn’t matter how finely you slice the journey. In calculus, this would be written as v=dx/dt. V could be a constant (constant speed) or a function of time (acceleration or deceleration).

The problem with your observation is that you would arrive at your destination only after infinite time. You need infinitely fast steps also.

@@chrisf5828 that’s not a problem. However finely you are chopping up the distance, you are chopping up the time needed to cross that distance at exactly the same rate.

Who wrote that? I know it's from at least the 40's 🤓😎✌🏻

@@paulsarnik8506 Me granny said it to me when I was a wee tot. I think it's just one of those nursery rhymes no one knows the origins of. (Hey Simon! Could you do a video on this?) ORRRR, it might be Edward Lear, who wrote a lot of clever poems back in the day. Sample: Candy is dandy, But liquor is quicker. AND: Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. (Or was that Dorothy Parker?)

Its a poem called "Antigonish" by William Hughes Mearns.

MAD Magazine version: The other day upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I think he's from the C.I.A.

@@petemorris8499 I LOVE IT!!!

True. To be 'worth one's salt' is to be worth one's pay. _"Salary:_ from the Latin _salarium._ Sal is the Latin word for salt.

I hear lots of people came here on ships to escape the slavery of their homeland. Those silly Americans…

Having had to endure years of government under this charlatan and consummate liar, you should trust nothing that comes from him!

As a member on Roman nobility Caesar actually spoke Greek.

Lol.

"All I said was there's a wasp on my toga!" - Caesar

And look at the story of the (I think 5 pilots) that flew out to do some training and they all just went off radar and disappeared then 7 higher up in rank officers went out to find them and they all disappeared as well. 12 of them just gone. They left from Fort Lauderdale airport and I live down here in Fort Lauderdale and it’s well known history also on history channel and news

@@MeMe-fz1ou yeah, that news in that era was really accurate. Simon's right... for the hundreds of years of history written down by those it actually happened to... instead of my friend who heard it from a friend who... the numbers of disappeared ships and everything in that 'triangle' is no greater than any other section of commonly traveled sea surface or airspace on Earth. thousands upon thousands of airliners fly through that airspace each year, thousands upon thousands of cruise ships go through that area...

Because it then became a "Roman City" by default! No matter if the land is usable or not, it no longer belongs to the enemy

But there extensive buildings and streets there, all of which are Roman. All the Punic buildings are in rubble under the Roman buildings.

​@Bubbaist that's exactly what I mean.... after the battle, you build your own city on top of the ruins, or you take over that city if it is still standing! The way things worked back then, you now expanded your territory.

Oh, ok. Still, why would they build a large city with only worthless, salted land all around? Of course we now know the answer, it wasn’t salted after all.

Surprising since the province of Africa would be eventually settled by Marius's soldiers making an important granary for the Roman Republic.

And every day was leg day for the Flinstones and rubbles 😂😂😂

Yes, I had German class as well and was told many times that no one laughed but that it was deeply meaningful and well recieved.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 best comment ever “ lmao

Yeah, that's a bullshit story. Ruffs are nothing like celluloid collars.

My cat liked the sound of the relaxation/sleep app. I think it was the “Calm” app.

Under a horse by chance?

Having sex with a toilet plunger on stage?

Weird subject for school.

On a wheel of fire rolled down a hill? Is what I was taught as a kid. Hence the "Catherine wheel" firework... 😅

The horse on the other hand was left feeling a bit unsatisfied.

Me too.

I've only been out of school for 20 years, and I was taught the same things.

US primary effusion was never held in high regard. Throughout 20th century there were numerous challenges to teaching theory of evolution in US schools. The most recent was in 2005. Thank God (pun intended) that done judges in higher courts are still sane.

it has now they don’t teach them anything smh

Oh yes! That was an episode of Drunk History (back when it was still funny). It was the "bastard son that he didn't give a sh** about".

Google Translate (German) pronounces it exactly like Zeus. Considering Geisel is a German name and Suess sounds like the German word for sweet.

It was a pseudonym. Besides, people's names are pronounced like they pronounce them. What is the proper pronunciation of Anna?

@@mlw5665 and he created the name and pronounced it as I stated. Why does that bother you somehow lol? Just thought it was interesting.

@@drdotter that's neat. Seems likely he gave no fucks how people pronounced it, so long as the check cleared haha Edit: genuinely thought it was neat, can see how that text would look condescending haha

It was his middle name.

From what I was taught in school, this was because some 2000 years ago, there were actually still islands in the strait left over from the collapse of the mountain range there (the collapse itself was a couple million years ago). This also made the passing of the strait a lot more dangerous. Not sure if it is true btw.

I must disagree. His chair game is not comparable to Frakes's.

Yep Einstein did admit to being poor in math however.

@MeMe-fz1ou As with all things Einstein, this is relative. He said he was poor at math _compared to where he wanted to be._ He was doing university level mathematics by age 14...

And then JFK went to: - Frankfurt and said "I am a Frankfurter!" - Hamburg and said "I am a Hamburger!"

@THEAdmiralXizor He actually went to Berlin and said "I am a jam donut."

Thank you! I was taught that the German people understood what he meant and that it was well thought of and highly recieved. This video is full of wrong nonsense, worry not.

While the story is complete bullshit, it is still an okay joke. I am a Danish!

it is a joke and meme in the US that has been circulating just here for the past oh... not too long... it was quite taboo here to speak ill of a dead President. at least in public. so if it was a joke here around the time he made the speech in 1962, he was assassinated the next year in 63, so it didn't circulate much back then. i think George Carlin the standup comedian first made the joke in my memory in the 1980's. he's probably the #1 reason anybody here would think of that speech in any way... even if they were alive and grown up enough to remember 1962.

Xeno’s “Paradox” is just word play, it isn’t math at all.

Thank you, Coralie. Thank you. It irritated me every time.

But IRL we don't know what it sounded like. We just have convention that we use to pronounce it out loud, though that's how I learned it too. OMG my chorale teacher was a nzi about pronunciation of the Latin in our songs. I get it, because you ALL have to sing it the same way or it sounds awful, but he apparently didn't agree with the going views of Latin pronunciation. Also, apparently about half the world can't sing Jingle Bells without singing 'Bells on bob tails ring' but he was adamant that it be sung 'Bells on bob TAIL ring', and we practiced it thousands of times. On our recordings, you can still hear about half the choir singing it with the S. I always thought it could be either way because there are probably many horses drawing sleds around where they are sleighing. But I desist...

​@@garethcooley1318 we can make inferences from poetry and contemporary comments on speech.

@DavidSmith-vr1nb Sure, I don't dispute that we have an idea. I mean it's not like ancient Egyptian, but it spans 600s BCE to 700 CE. There was probably a lot of variation through time and space, and I don't think it is a far stretch to assume that it was similar to any other language. Additionally, everything. That I can find in scholarly.Articles says we think it may have sounded like or it probably sounded like. Or these verbs may have been conjoined similarly to those verbs. Even simple words are often pronounced differently from city to city., or group to group. It seems more like it's a convention for modern speakers and users of latin, with some descriptions, some inference, and some educated guessing...

@@garethcooley1318 The most reliable way to figure out pronunciation is with onomatopoetic words. Ancient sheep still said, "Baaaaaaaaaaaa!} no matter how you spell it.

A bag of guineas of a piece of eight...

They use Spanish coins in Moby dick

It is even older - look up Tolar in the english wikipedia or Joachimstaler on the German site - St. Joachimsthal was a place where they minted a lot of silver coins between 1519 and 1528 - later they dropped nearly all the surplus 'h's in the German words* so TAL is basically a valley and the Dollar derived its name from that part of a placename. * the anectote about the orthographic changes in the German language goes like this: about 1908 the German Kaiser stated, "as long as throne and althar are not threatened, I will not object!" Meaning: do not endanger my position or the power of the church and everything will be fine. But they streamlined the written language leaving those two words (and some others, that get all written with 'th' in English too) in the fancy way of "more letters than necessary"

History Guy has an outstanding episode on the peshtigo

Was hoping he’d mention it in passing.

Another great fire occurred the same day in Manistee, MI.

The peshtigo fire burned so hot that some small settlements and homesteads could never be found. Hundreds of people died.

@@mlw5665 Thanks for the recommendation!

Sideshow Bob will always be the GOAT when it comes to stepping on rakes.

What do you mean at first, that is what I heard all the way through.