1:16 - For anyone who is curious, if both sides missed in a duel, and the offended party was satisfied, the duel would be over. If the offended party was not satisfied they would simply reload and go again. This would continue until either one of the two was dead or three shots were fired with no hits. After three shots the duel would end as more than that was considered 'barbaric'.
@@kathorsees Likely barbaric as in people without decorum would shoot more than 3 times. In a time where being a gentleman and following rules was high valued, you didn’t want to go against decorum.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 That's what it says on the tin. As in, that's the most literal interpretation. However, historical people weren't that different from us - oftentimes, they just found a prettier name for something just to save face. You know, just like people say "well, that job wasn't really that good anyway, that company sucks" after their friend fails an interview? Just to sort of help them save face/not hurt their feelings/smooth over the topic? Well, I think this might be the same thing, but for people who can't aim at all or who didn't actually want to take part in the duel or hurt someone (which is a totally good thing).
It's less "what if hitler saw a bunch of famous movies" and more "all these famous movies focused on supernatural elements and used Nazis as the main villains, what if we used that?"
...kinda true. Einstein was a horrible husband to his first wife. She was a extraordinary woman who attended university, amazing at this time, but had to give it all up to raise Albert's children.Then Einstein left her+kids to marry his younger cousin.
The one with Franklin, I thought it was going to be a reference to a long letter he wrote explaining why older women make superior mistresses, in which he observed that the lower half of a woman's body consistently deteriorates less with age, and that if seeing the upper half is too unpleasant, you can always just have her wear a sack over her top half.
I just worry about my fellow Americans education if they think the US military captured Berlin instead of the Soviet Union. That's kinda a big important fact of the war.
Abraham Lincoln was once challenged to a duel. Getting to choose the weapons he chose broadswords and intimidated his opponent by cutting off tall branches before the duel so he called it off.
2:57 I'm real glad robot chicken didn't just have him shot and that guy was like "lets see where this goes" because I would do the same. The unarmed leader of the enemy army intentionally blinding himself talking about ghosts sounds like a great story to tell later.
1:32 this is historically accurate. The dueling guns of that era were intentionally made inaccurate and often misinterpreted as being lethal. While they certainly had that capability and many died. The more common outcome was the two duelist would miss. All for show.
they had up until they raised their guns to fire to retract the duel or retract the inflammatory statement that sparked the duel…knowing that there’s a chance of dying made most do one pr the other!
It was not for show at all. More historical revisionism. These dudes were entirely ready to die. The amount of people dying of duels at the rate historically completely debunks your claim. Research more please 😅
@@skeletorlikespotatoes7846only a little research shows that the reason a lot of people died was just how common duals were. Even if a small percentage ended in death that’s still a lot of lethal duals. Granted this is just basic math you should have learned in first grade so it might be to complex.
@@SpottedHares 5 mins of research shows that on the Continent scratch rifling dominated and smooth bore was seen as MORE dishonorable. Smooth bore is NOT inaccurate. At the distance they shot at it's usually gonna be 90 percent of the times every accurate. Scratch rifling simply enhanced this. So unfortunately you all are completely wrong. People want to desperately try to take away the romanticism of their ancestors to make them feel better. The reality is these men were totally willing to die for this.
Abe, "Hey, Robert E Lee, where do you think you're going? We still got three scores and seven kicks to the balls to go!" Uh, what balls would those be? Pretty sure they're gone by now.
It's actually sad because Robert E Lee was actually a very much respected General. He was offered command of the union military but his state left the union forcing him to fight for his home defending their wishes. Just from this it is obvious that his only loyalty was to family. After the war ended he became a well respected military tactician and taught at universities becoming the president of Washington and Lee University. Even though he sided with Democrats after the war, it wasn't because he didn't like policy of republicans, but however the harsh treatment from them to the south political atmosphere which lasted years after the war. The Joke in other words was a great disrespect for a very respectful Confederate and Union General who is widely accepted as playing a major role in reunification of the nation after the war. Many would consider him racist but he agreed with abolition but didn't want the previous slaves to be capable of voting for a small time after being freed until they could be re-integrated and self sustainable as the votes could have been embarrassing quite possibly. His fear of this of course ended up being quite an over reaction however he did have a point as education was extremely poor for many of the freed slaves something that certain political figures used as an unfair advantage having taken many of the things the freed slaves had been given including land in some incredibly terrible ways.
To be fair, people didn't stick their head in the oven while it was hot. They blew out the pilot light and turned on the gas so they asphyxiated themselves. That being said, that was hilarious.
When I was a kid I was traumatized by an old movie reference to putting one's head in the oven, until much much later I learned what you've just said. The cooking gas piped into a lot of city homes of the day was not the methane/ethane "natural gas" we use now, but a byproduct of processing coal into coke that was a mixture of hydrogen and, seriously, carbon monoxide. And of course no odor agent added either.
@@foxymetroid It's hard to say with Pythagoras and his desciples, because none of their writtings survived. Everything we know of them is from people who opposed their ideals.
6:23 You don't stick it in a _hot_ oven, you stick it in an oven full of natural gas, thereby suffocating yourself. 9:55 That sounds a whole lot like Chris Griffin.
5:40 reminded of an OOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD Tales From The Crypt comic i read when i was 12, about a man who wore a stovepipe hat ALL THE TIME. Turned out he was a conjoined twin, at the top of the skull. One died, but because they shared a brain, they had to cut off the dead twin at the neck, forcing the other to wear a tall hat every day of his life.
I know it's just a funny sketch, but from what I understand about old dueling; that video isn't too far from the truth with how it ends 😆 If both parties fired but neither was injured, they could both agree that honor had been restored because each was willing to show and risk death
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"The power of God is mine to command." That was so arrogant of him. Personally myself, I'm agnostic, and I even I believe no human mortal can command God's power, even with the 10 Commandments.
The class of 1962 skit is a really strange error. The US's deaths in Vietnam did not exceed 59,000. The class of 1962 contained roughly 1.2 million able bodied males. It is highly unlikely for anyone in that dance to die in Vietnam.
I'm gonna be that guy. "The allies have taken Berlin" at 1:51 was *technically* true, but there were no American or English units involved in the Battle of Berlin. It was all the Soviets. Speaking as an American, it's really kind of crazy how we skirt around the fact.
