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Where is your video on the Donner Party or the Donner pass??? Seriously their story is perfect for one of your channels. Especially with Yellowjackets being a new hit show and partly basing it on the Donner Party.
If you read a spy novel with a main character like this, you'd roll your eyes at how preposterous he sounded. Real life really is stranger than fiction.
I mean any real hunter is a conservationist at heart. If all the animals go extinct you can't hunt anymore right? Sometimes, specifically when dealing with invasive species, hunting is the only way to save the native animals. They used helicopters and semi auto rifles to mass slaughter the goats that were rapidly killing the Galapagos Islands back in the 90s. It's actually a super surreal story. They used a radio collar on a "Judas Goat" to track all the wild goats, and then would shoot every goat except the Judas Goat and he would go find more goats. Rinse and repeat, couple hundred dead goats later and hunting saved the Galapagos.
You need to do a Biographics on Gwen Shamblin. She was a millionaire, best-selling author and self-proclaimed prophet of a Christian weight-loss cult. She was a cougar who married Tarzan. The story is crazy, the hair is crazier, and she ultimately died when her private plane crashed on her way to a Trump rally.
Would honestly love a video of Jack Sheppard (or Honest Jack). 18th century thief and escape artist. Escaped prison four times (including one prison which was meant to be impossible to escape)
He went against most, if not all, of the Afrikaners moral codes. So we did not learn a lot about him. A shame really, he is an incredibly example of what one can do, but also why we need to forgive. (And yes, he is one of my heroes as an Afrikaner)
2:45 - Chapter 1 - Early life in africa 4:50 - Chapter 2 - The black panther of the veld 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Going to america 13:45 - Chapter 4 - Sabotage in south america 17:55 - Chapter 5 - The spy ring that never was - Chapter 6 -
There is so much unknown about what he really did that you pretty much could make a movie about his life and nobody could really argue how or how not historically accurate it is.
This is an excellent biographics video. Videos like this are the reason I love this RU-vid channel. Incredibly well put together and interesting. This is also top tier Simon as well. Recently it feels like the biographics videos have been more casual. A lot of his other shows like business blaze are very freeform and laid back. Love how this one is a little more informational and formal. When someo
Another lesson (one that Uncle Sam would do well to remember): Blowback can be a bitch! Fancy telling holocaust victims to just forget the holocaust and move on. Kitchener's actions were essentially genocidal - it's just that Britain won the Boer War and so swept his crimes against humanity under the rug.
How about you do a biographic on Charles Upham, he annoyed the Nazis and made them look stupid at every turn, doesn't get much more legendary than that
@@Ricky_Bobby2314 The guy was such a bad ass he literally ordered enemy soldiers to help him dig his Jeep out of the sand, by sheer brazenness and no doubt confusion on the part of the Italian soldiers who saw the size of his brass balls and didn't want none.
Absolutely agree, he was a fearless humanitatian who held all governments in South Africa to a high standard, found them all wanting and was not afraid to say so loudly and clearly. A great blessing and a great loss.
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Simon!!! You should do a video on the self proclaimed emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton. This guy was a certificate legend, stopped a huge riot, and the kingdom of Hawaii even recognized his rule over “the other government”.
I did a project on him in school and all my research convinced me that while some of the stories are true, most of them are proof he was a pathological liar and fantasist.
Yes and no. I did research on him as well. I think he was a man with an incredible amount of pain. He literally had a death wish. Although his stories might be exaggerated, I always got the impression that he took on crimes that wasn't his. Not only because he liked the fame, but also because he lost his interest in the world and protected some people who didn't (if that makes sense)
Please do Robey Leibbrandt - he was a RSA boxer who competed at the 1936 Olympics, became a Nazi agent who attempted to assassinate Jan Smuts and get South Africa absorbed into the Third Reich. Really interesting stuff!
Britain's attempted genocide of the Boers has been well documented. It's just that they won the war and so their genocidal actions have been swept under the historical rug.
Just do abit of a dig into South African history that includes Afrikaans sources and you will find the true shameful history. The whole world knows about apartheid, which was horrific and should never have happened, but no one knows that the roots of apartheid lay in the British treatment of the Afrikaans people - from banning them from certain jobs, to banning the use of Afrikaans and forcing the teaching of English in schools, etc. Die Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) has a lot of this recorded history. I'm sure google translate will be able to assist with translation. If not, feel free to contact me. Many Afrikaners hated the British - even my parents in law hated them. so not so far back in history either. And the concentration camps were very bad. Millions of women and children starved and died of preventable illness and the Brits did that to ensure that the Boer army would have no support system in the war.
I agree. For years afterwards it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended. Even today it takes a lot of time before your family accepts them.
Thanks for this Bio Read the Boer War written by Thomas Pakenham. Still one of the best books on the Boer war. Thomas stated the cause of the Boer war as the "Gold Bugs in England. In 1902 there were more British soldiers in South Africa than there were men, women and children in the Free State and Transvaal combined. The surrender was followed by the Brits not honouring their promises. 12% Of the population of the Boer states's population, mostly women and children, was murdred in concentration camps by the British. Read the book Commando by Denys Reitz, Pakenham's Boer War and about Emily Hobhouse. She was a British nurse that worked in the concentration camps and fought against the treatment of the people there.
12% we know of... There are still mass graves that show that the number might have been higher. There's a reason why it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended for years afterwards.
@@BTScriviner More like he'd fit right in CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, Vice, and The Guardian today. He'd have a field day dominating the internet and the public space.
It would seem as if perhaps the former GB would bear at least Some responsibility for how Duquesne became the vengeance filled person whom he did. At least that's the position I've watched you express in other videos, specifically the ones about people who are abused while young, and then become psychopaths. Or am I missing something here?
My gg-father (1874-1980) was also at Ladysmith, where he captured a British canon that would have enabled him to fire it on the british from that position, but he instead buried it at the foot of a kopje, telling me he regretted not attending artillery school in Pretoria prior to the conflict. He was also at Talana, Hlobane, Vryheid and the train incident near Ladysmith where the british peer who was also a war correspondent was captured. He rode with spurs at 88. That was the type of righteous men they were, always formally dressed even when working in the fields, with all the attire of men, watch on chain, pocket knife, pipe paraphernalia, breaches, hat, tie. Fearing only God and leaving vengeance to Him, never spoke in hate, not even about the british despite all.. Real men know when to stop hate and live in peace. I promised to go dig up the gun at the first chance, and he drew a map but I never got around to it. The gun must be rusty by now and certainly obsolete so no point really.
My great great grandfather (1878 - 1952) was also part of the second boer war but was captured in early 1902 and shipped off to St. Helena island as a POW. He survived the war and went on to have 10 kids! My grandfather went on to marry a british lady so now im kinda in the middle of it all,but I digress,the guys back in the day were truly made of steel
@@ludwigheuer2599 I don't have the map anymore. But the salient fact is that it was buried a little above the road that goes around the koppie. I don't know which koppie but he said from their position they could have shelled the town. I don't onow if this was one of the guns the british used to hamper the ill conceived attempt to flood the town dumping soil in the river (it would never have worked). I'll ask my mother, maybe she remembers.
Simon doesn't know what ingredients go into beer? Sounds like someone stumbled across a today I found out subject! Or actually a Brain Blaze about the worst alcoholic beverage flops.
i got a video suggestion for you. how aboutt a video about Jean Bernadotte that was one of Napoleons generals and ended up as the sweedish monarch known under the name Charles XIV John (English name) or if prefearing the sweedish/norwegian name Karl XIV Johan in sweeden and Karl III Johan in norway. i have read a book about him and its defenitly a interesting history that i think people will enjoy