I cannot say this enough: I really admire and appreciate the narrator's effort to pronounce non-English names and terms as closely as possible, and often being pretty decent at it too imo! 👍
lmao it’s basic respect and not that hard to learn. it’s just a matter of respect. such an american thing to celebrate as if it’s not common place. or should be.
Wow! You pronounced "Simón Bolívar" and "Córdoba" in Spanish with the stress on the correct syllables! You don't get that often from English speaking RU-vidrs... I really appreciate the effort. Gracias and keep it up!
Spanish and Japanese are the easiest languages in the world to pronounce correctly! Mostly because they are almost always spelled exactly the way they are pronounced and don't have difficult consonant clusters or unusual vowels.
Love hearing your weird history take on things! I was a kid in the '90s and '00s, so it would be fun to get a video from you guys about Pizza Hut and the pan pizza program. Otherwise, keep it up with the top notch vids.
Al Leong! The actor who played Ghengis Khan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure might have the most badass filmographies in cinematic history. As well as the aforementioned role, he also played... Bad guy with the meat cleaver in Big Trouble in Little China. Bad guy who steals the candy bar in Die Hard. Bad guy who tortures Riggs with the jumper-cable electrocution in Lethal Weapon. Bad guy who gets killed with an ice cream cone in Last Action Hero. And those are just the acting roles he had in popular movies, he's been in a lot of b-movie cult classics. He's also a stunt/fight choreographer as well!
The "dark" ages are so-called because there was a drop in literacy and especially written history. Before that there had been a lot of (very biased) Roman historians and diarists. It wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. The introduction/invention (depends on who you ask lol) of Caxton's printing press - probably based on olive and/or grape presses - is usually considered to be the age's end and the start of the mediaeval times.
@ilovemalechickens All the random British colonies around the world are just spaced out enough so there is daylight somewhere in the world that is a British possession.
Huh, I was taught in school that Kyiv was the 3rd Rome and always remembered that factoid because of never heard it anywhere else until here (except you had it as Moscow,, but the same movement North from Constantinople).
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating LUNCHABLES PEPPERONI PIZZA FUN PACK*†...while watching this Weird History video! * From the Weird History Food video "Facts About 80s Snacks" † Inside the Fun Pack is a Capri Sun, which is from the Weird History food video "Facts About ‘90s Lunch Box Items That Make Us Kinda Miss School" Note: I have never had the Lunchables Pepperoni Pizza before.
Two things: 1) The narrator is so great, I admit I only watch episodes featuring him. 2) Who is he? I, for some reason, can't imagine him NOT having a well-maintained beard.
I think that's Jimmy Nichol. There was a period during their first or second US tour where Ringo got sick (had to have his tonsils removed maybe?) so Jimmy played a few shows while Ringo had surgery/recuperated.
0:37 The film The Empire Strikes Back (1980) is the last film (#100) of the 100 films summarized, explained, and reviewed in the series When Gen X Ruled The Multiplex on the YT channel Morgan Richter.
"The transfer of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 symbolised for many the end of the British Empire." (wikipedia) That was on the 30th birthday of centennial baby Pamela Anderson. My cat Lisa is named after her character Lisa on the tv series Home Improvement (1991-1999).
I am going to watch the Weird History videos: x What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed (First recommendation, second time watching) x 12 of the Most Important Cities in History - And Why They Fell From the Top (Second recommendation, second time watching) x How the Civilization On Easter Island Collapsed (Second Time watching) x How an Artificial Sweetener May Have Destroyed the Roman Empire
This can literally be a series of videos, not including the ones already done. If it doesn't already exist on its own in this list make it happen WH team!
When the Roman Empire collapsed what happened to the Roman armies stationed at the outlying edges of the Empire? Did they find their way back to Rome, or did they assimilate with the natives where they were stationed?
Kublai Khan's biggest was Xanadu's stately pleasure Russia covered about 70% of the Soviet Union.In that era it was the second largest political entity in the world after the Soviet Union itself.
4:37 "Ohio was won by Trump by a margin of 8.07 points." "Prior to the election, most news organizations considered Ohio as leaning Republican, due to Trump's appeal to blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt. Ohio kept its streak of voting for the winner as a bellwether state since 1964." (wikipedia)
...Why did you show the HRE coat of arms when referring to the Roman 'Empire' that conquered the Diadochi? It was the Roman Republic that conquered the Diadochi. Actually, funnily enough.. The last to fall was the Ptolemic Kingdom of Egypt to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus. Who because of his conquest of Egypt and defeat of Marcus Antonius. Was awarded the title of Augustus and Princeps. Which is generally accepted as him taking the throne as the first Roman Emperor.
The Roman Empire was mighty and amazing but "the pinnacle of civilization" was a hell of an overstatement, a society that wipes their ass with a communal sponge is far from the pinnacle lol
2:22 That same friend, who talked about Alexander The Great, and I made our own t-shirts. He bought the equipment so we could create them by hand (instead of having a company make them) . They had sayings like "Stop Illegal Dinosaur Fights" with a picture of a T-Rex behind two knives crossing each other.
10:16 The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the most important event of the entire world over the past 50+ years. It's spectre was present in the world for close to 50 years after WW2. Actually almost 80% of the Soviet Union voted to continue it at a referendum in 1991, which is unbelievable!
I'm glad that you told part of the truth about the 90's in Russia. I was born into this time and lived until 1996 in St. Petersburg before moving with my family to Germany. During this time the West (particularly the USA) praised Russia as so much more "democratic" as ever before, while the Russians starved or drank themselves to death. I remember vividly how we watched Yeltsin's resignation and Putin's nomination for president through satellite technology, grainy, barely visible, but we were jubilant! We didn't know much about Putin during this time, the only thing we knew was that everybody would be better than the drunken puppet Yeltsin. Now we are very happy that Putin is president. I've voted for him before and I will do it again. He is the GOAT.
Maybe prepare for making a video about the fall of the Disney global cultural empire , next ? I could really see Miley Cyrus diversifying into many different parts of cultural offerings with her talents to fill that void .. ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
I just gave the last chance to your channel but you just can't stop with the stupid jokes... Question to the anchor: do you think your jokes are funny???
