A vital use for Viennese peas 

Honestly I'm impressed that even after, he kept the enthusiasm and answers going. I admire that he didn't let the short embarrassment stop him from having fun.

"Abandoned babies with a love for dried peas and percussion instruments"

He's like, "There's no way the producers chose that--right???"

3:10

Oh that is a perfect collaboration that must happen some day!

PLEASE that would be amazing to watch

He’s defo been to the pub with Chris Joel in preparation 😂

TOTPAL would actually be a fantastic format for an off-season episode of The Layover

You and me both.

I immediately thought of Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle. And then I started singing "then the winged hussars arrived!"

Wouldn't classify myself as a Sabaton fan, but as a fellow history nerd, same.

Same, when Adam asked “Was there a war in Vienna in 1683” I just about lost it.

absolutely right

So where does Tom's "The interesting thing about that is No" fall? 😄

@@beth12svist”Yeah, you’re right.” “Oh.”

brilliant

I mean, makes more sense than tunneling enemy soldiers, right?

But then he was thinking they were orphaned, or being left for dead...

I'm not sure we can say what ghosts are. People just assume they are some leftover from a once living person. That may not be the case.

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Yeah, it should really be taught at schools that "caring about children" is a relatively new phenomenon. I also recall reading about a case in France only a few centuries ago where somebody mutilated somebody's child (I believe the child lost an eye among other things) and the assailant only had to pay the child's mother relatively low compensation for "property damage"...

@@notthere83 I mean a lot of it was lack of birth control so people had to make choices. The "baby farming" era is a particularly messy one, where society has started to care about leaving babies to die, but there are still way too many of them being produced, so people would pay someone to allegedly take care of their kid for them. If the kid was LUCKY they ended up in Les Miserables, starved and kicked around and used as cheap labor. If the kid was unlucky they were immediately drowned once the parents were out of sight. IIRC a lot of baby farmers were executed if they were caught.

They definitely are. I love how they play off of eachother

@@2_obsessed your profile pic is incredible btw

@@mikaoleander thanks!

My initial thought was 🎶then the winged hussars arrived🎶

Its a desperate race against the mine, and a race against time (may as well use the lyric most relevant to this question)

@@MercenaryPen Trenches to explosive hall, buried deep within the walls, plant the charges there and watch the city fear...

Trenches to explosive halls, are buried deep beneath the walls, plant the charges there and watch the city fear!

Late guess (corrected from "mid guess") 6:25: getting alerts for earthquakes.

In retrospect: My initial guess was right, but way, way, too wide. I didn't specify the purpose nor the reasoning for it; only the mechanism.

It is during the Siege of Vienna the Ottoman army is outside the city wall with tens of thousands of men around the city and in the countryside around Vienna. The number is 90,000 to 300,000 men depending on the source. Digging trenches making the earth and wooden fortification to protect you own personnel, put artillery into and even undermining the wall or just making a tunnel below it are ways to breach a wall that will be as old as the idea of a siege of a fortification. So they did know the emery was outside the city they did not know exactly where they were digging. Going out there to stop them was not an option, there were around 11,000 soldiers and 5,000 volunteers in the city. They would have been crushed if it was not for the walls. It was not until the relief force of around 70,000 men arrived you get a battle that the Ottomans lost. The battle had the largest known cavalry change in history with 18,000 men charging down the hills. The Battle of Pelennor Fields, which is the battle in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King that is in and outside of Minas Tirith where the Rohan cavalry charge down the hill is something similar to this in a movie. If the number of the rider in the movie matches the book it is only 6,000 men. I would say the importance of the battles is similar too, this is when the Ottoman expansion in Europe stops. The war did continue for another 16 years but the siege is the main turning point.

wendover

He might have a few channels

Especially when he’s had a few 🥃😂

There's some saying about only 2 things are certain in life: death and taxes. Since it wasn't death, clearly it must be tax-related!

Yes, the story goes that a couple of apprentice bakers were working overnight in an underground bakehouse and heard the noise from the Turks tunneling. They raised the alarm and the army was able to place explosives to stop the Turks. As a reward for their service, the young bakers were granted the right to make a pastry shaped like a crescent (the symbol of the Ottoman Empire), and thus croissants were born. (Probably just a legend, but cool nonetheless.)

@@myladycasagrande863 Does this mean I can blame ancient Turks for making be fat?

​@@MattTCfarm16th century is hardly ancient