DicKtionary - K is for Killer - Elizabeth Báthory 

I nominate Shiro Ishii for trial in the DicKtionary courts

two*, in the last two years

Hell yeah, Dicktionary in the house! Lol. Awesome to see the letters growing again.

Sorry to plug another channel, but Biographies had an excellent video about Bathory. Love the Timeghost History channel and haven't missed an episode of Realtime, out of the foxholes, war against humanity, or the home front. Hoping to have December 7 free to watch the whole thing in real time. Thanks for all your work, so much to come.

Are ya'll planning to finish it, or are we only going to get a handful of episodes?

That'd be amazing... Hard to think of anyone more comically evil than that guy.

Death by bureaucracy. Would be an interesting episode.

The script on this one will be interesting, love of Football the real one not the one you wear armour for, his love of Jazz, the NKVD Jazz band.. his raping, murder...... nasty evil little maggot.

His death was as screwed up as his life.

Laszlo...hello from the US, and former neighbor from Romania! I've been in the US for 38 yrs and for the first yrs I kept getting asked about the legend (is it true!) of Dracula - Bram Stoker wrote a book and all believe is some kind of historical fact!

"I am the law" - Judge Dredd, and the nobility.

The faq is the this "Law" these peasants keep going on about!?

???...for the Brits, the first case against the criwn was won in the early 18th (1730s?), so if the rumors against a high noble were notable in number, they might have been tried (as this doc states).

@@marinazagrai1623 Yeah, you just literally had to be the worst human being imaginable. Totally fair. Also in assuming you're taking about King Charles I? That was after a civil war and was executed by his enemies. Not really comparable.

I am so glad it is back. I thought they abandoned it

​@xeepromx Don't think there's anything to indicate that. Vlad Dracula was the ruler of Wallachia (the southern region of Romania that holds Bucharest, now seemingly called Muntenia), while Bathory was the the Countess of Transylvania (a central region that extends most of the way to the nothern border.) Bathory's ancestry up to her great grandparents, who would have been contemporaries of Vlad III's son, Mihnea. There might be some blood relation - with good enough records of European noble families, that becomes increasingly common throughout medieval times - but it seems like there's nothing particularly direct. Furthermore, the locations are even less related - she was living in her husband's castle, in modern Slovakia well to the Northwest of her lands.

Yeah. That guy was an epicc dicc.

more like R for rubber

When Leopold II reigned over Congo, it was his private country, not part of Belgium, something for him to do on the side. The Belgians actually took over the colony to "calm it down" although it was still pretty much what you would expect from a colony.

Raskolnikov...all European empires had their fingers in all the pies around the world - Holland couldn't afford to give up her Asian colonies since they were their only revenue, but were ordered to do so. They are all paying for their ancestors' deeds now, since all have a passport from the country that invaded them. Hello fom a former neighbor (now in the US) from Romania.

L is for Lamarkism for Trofim Lysenko.

i wondered if you would weigh in on the lack of a tie.

I personally think the invisible tie is probably the best one yet.

The Countess needed that tie for..... reasons.

So 0/5? Will really lower the average score

we filmed this two years ago.

Did he ever kill anyone though? Definitely a dick but not much of a murderer, if only because he never got the chance.

They're nobles. That's normal for nobles.

If I remember correctly..her parents were double first cousins..which explains a lot

@@allisoncampbell1631 Understood, but that was more of a reference to what appears in the video as he says that ;)

I hope they're gonna run through the alphabet at least a couple of times :D I love this series and I'm over the moon that it's back!

Glad you like the show guys! We're taking it one step at a time ;)

@@TimeGhost Thank you for bringing us history and entertainment all in one :D

Thanks! Happy to hear you enjoyed the format.

Glad you enjoyed it Tom :D

sure that's not astrid's piggy bank skull?

You better believe that it's Schultz - aka Astrid's piggy bank skull...

When they announced season 2 of "Between two wars" they said they had originally made 2 or 3 more of these, but not done any afterproduction on them as they wanted to start the "real" series (between two wars) as soon as possible, so with the short pause needed to bridge over between Suez and B2W2 this was almost ideal... maybe if the response is good enough on these "filler" episodes N-Z will also come one day. Probably depends most on how much Patreon Patrons demand it though ;)

The Turks butchered him after he lost in battle, I dont think even Vampires survive dismemberment lol. But a creepy thought all the same.

@@cookingonthecheapcheap6921 depends on who tells the vampire story... putting even his ashes back into his coffin with "earth from his home" and pouring blood over it CAN restore a "dead vampire" to live in some of the variants...

Glad to be back. Thanks John!

Thanks Jens! Slowly but surely we'll make our way through it :)

Glad you like them! We're looking forward to finishing off the series

Uh. That is clear Yanderu territory.

I think historic records of Daji will have been mixed up with the myth. Would be great to watch still

Even more so with the band Bathory named after her. They were one of the most influential bands ever in the extreme end of metal.

When you have the Godfather of black metal named upon your name

So have we!

Caesars was the final, or maybe next to final, nail in the coffin of the Roman Republic. You can't blame only him when people like Marius and Sulla exist. He was a dick though.

Ealdy oh yeah it’s not like Rome didn’t have its problems, Sulla’s proscriptions, Clodious’s gladiators. Rome was in a state of degradation but guys like Cicero and Cassius were still around so I wouldn’t say Rome’s fate was sealed. Caesar caught Rome at a weak point, but he did more than just the last nail. The republic fought hard to keep itself together and if it wasn’t for that famous Caesarian luck he could have easily been anhilated at pharsalus or munda. Rome had its problems but Caesar walked in there with a battering ram. Not entirely his own fault tho, in some ways the senate pushed until he had no other options.

We're making our way through it now :)

You are welcome!

She looked Ventrue tho.

Thanks for the support Lyliss! We're glad you're excited for this series return. See you around on the next B2W!

@@TimeGhost My pleasure really!

Thanks a lot! We're glad you learnt something new :)

He’s still a dick though even if his intentions were good

That's always very hard to determine if some is a dick, while being on the good side of the war. We get a similar problem with Winston Churchill.

@@martijn9568 Bingo. The victors write the history books, and if LeMay had been German he'd have been tried and executed after the war ended.

Sorry but General Jack D Ripper fully deserves to be the first entry in the dicktionary as a first class dick. First up the idea that the strategic bombing campaign against German and Japanese cities shortened the war significantly is at best debatable. In fact a number of historians argue that the whole thing was a waste of allied tactical and industrial resources on a vast scale and that it may even have lengthened the war as the things that weren’t done to enable the bombing effort would have had more effect on reducing the ability of the axis to wage war. After the war he was forever trying to start another world war either by expanding a regional conflict like Korea or Vietnam or de novo as in the Cuban missile crisis. As someone who killed thousands of his own men (strategic bombing forces had the highest loss rates of all UK and US forces) and probably millions of civilians trying to prove a misguided and quite obviously failed strategic concept he really does deserve his place in the dicktionary even without his post war obsession with vital fluids.

@Mars Attacks I disagree. I don't think it is debatable that his actions shorted the war, I'll explain. When the allies are bombing Germany, Japan and other Axis countries that forces people to rebuild the factories and homes destroyed in the bombings. That alone then makes it so that those factories are not producing weapons during that time and those people are not working on things productive to the war effort. Had the allies not bombed Germany or Japan they would have had far more weapons to hold out with and thus inflict far greater casualties. As for the bombing being what caused the Axis nations to hold out I again disagree. It was the terms of absolute surrender that made Germany and Japan hold out until they did. Both Germany and Japan launched strategic bombing campaigns before the Allies launched them back on the Axis forces. Of course the Axis forces tried to still use the bombings to their propaganda but in the end what was preventing Germany and Japan from agreeing to surrender was that the Allies were demanding unconditional surrender. Lastly, as for LeMay in Vietnam. The policy he wanted to implement there of bombing the north was what eventually did end the war there (The American-Vietnam war not the civil war fought after). When the Nixon administration did start the bombing of North Vietnam up this lead the USSR to tell the North to make a peace deal. This was because the USSR was not going to keep spending a higher percent of their GDP on a war then the US (which the USSR was doing) in a war they were not even fighting in to continue to replace all the expensive military equipment they had been giving the north. This position of the USSR forced the North to go back to the Paris peace accords and agree to the peace deal the Americans wanted.

Feels good to be back!