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Faking His Death

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How Ancient Romans Made Perfectly Straight & Durable Roads, Concrete Better Than Ours, & Much More

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The Many Hilarious Ways the CIA Tried to Assassinate Fidel Castro

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Hancock: Revere's Ride

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,This video is sponsored by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com And for many more interesting videos in this "Making America" Quincy Documentary series do go check out the full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDXzjPbtjM&list=PLR0XuDegDqP09c-64MPmWT8FC9VBev8iz “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.” These are the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his famous 1860 poem Paul Revere’s Ride, which is where most of popular history’s perception of this famous event and its purpose came from. But it turns out, a huge percentage of the poem is wildly inaccurate, from Revere seeming to ride alone in the poem, to the lanterns at the church being meant to tell Revere what message to send, rather than it being Revere himself who instructed how many lanterns to hang in case he should fail to get across the river and make his famous ride. Most significantly of all in the inaccuracies, however, is where Revere was initially going and why. It turns out, the primary concern before anything else was to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were lodging in Lexington at the time, that the British soldiers were seemingly coming for them. As we’ve previously covered in our videos Hancock: Rise of the Merchant Prince, and Hancock: Igniting the Revolution, the oft forgotten Founding Father John Hancock was a lot more prominent in the early going of the American Revolution than just his John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence, as is mostly all that’s remembered of him today. But at this point in the story, the British had seemingly decided enough was enough. And it was time to do something about the so-called “King Hancock” and his partner in crime Samuel Adams- a man who was the walking talking epitome of the over 2000 year old general concept of the pen being mightier than the sword. Here now is the real story of Paul Revere's ride and the aftermath in part 3 of our series on the oft' forgotten John Hancock. Author: Daven Hiskey Host: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila

Conspiracy: The Stories Behind Flat Earth, All Seeing Eye, Little Green Men Fake Moon Landing & More

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The Insanely Gruesome Origins of the Chainsaw

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The Forgotten Pearl Harbor Before Pearl Harbor

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Matchgirls and the Incredibly Gruesome Story of Phossy Jaw

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How a Breakthrough in a Dream Changed Chemistry Forever

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The Key to Humans Humaning

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,This video is #sponsored by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com While modern humans have existed for at least a few hundred thousands years, we didn’t really start massively progressing from our earliest ancestors until we began forming large and very complex societies after transitioning away from small hunter-gather groups for various reasons. Critical to all this being able to happen was creating sets of rules which members of each society agreed to live by. As John Wick’s Winston Scott so sagely stated, “Rules. Without them, we live with the animals.” While what specific laws these earliest agricultural societies functioned under has been largely lost to history outside of things we can infer from archaeological evidence, over the ensuing 10,000 years or so, humans have had a lot of ideas on what the best ways for societies to function are, and what sets of fundamental principles and laws to implement to get there. Perhaps not coincidentally, our biggest leaps in recent centuries came on the back of a major shift in such societal rules and government structure in many prominent nations- not only away from a system of hereditary elite who everyone and the system is meant to serve on some level, but also to systems where those who would abuse such power when given it are kept in check as much as possible and, in theory, those placed in power also are meant to serve the system and those very people who put them there, not wholly the other way around. Of course any system is rife for abuse, and, for example, the Soviet Union had just such a system setup which included in their latter two constitutions giving its citizens the rights of freedom of speech, the press, religion, and the right to assemble peacefully. In reality, however, if citizens used these constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in a way the authorities didn’t like, being imprisoned or even executed for it was a thing. Thus, even in clearly defined systems, if safeguards aren’t put in place to ensure these principles are enforced regardless of who is holding the positions of power, then the paper they are written on would perhaps more usefully be used to wipe one’s backside after doing their necessaries. Further, mobs are relatively easily swayed by exploiting facets of human psychology built into all of us. At all levels, while many may strive to be the ideal human and version of ourselves, we are all still human- subject to the same weaknesses, biases, and prejudices as those who came before us for tens of thousands of years. And even the most intelligent of us can be manipulated in various ways relatively easily, whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not. Thus, how an ideal society and government may function in theory, and one that can actually function well in the real world, are two VERY different things. Let alone forming a structure of government and laws that stands the test of time and provides some level of stability across many generations, with, unsurprisingly, the vast majority of constitutions going the way of the dodo within a decade or two of their establishment. Unsurprisingly from all this, forming effective and stable governments is extremely difficult, and I don’t think anyone would argue any government that exists today has yet reached the ultimate ideal for all. As the “Father of the U.S. Constitution”, James Madison, would sum up, “no Government of human device, & human administration can be perfect; [thus] that which is the least imperfect is therefore the best Govt.” But in the last several hundred years we humans have come a long way in this regard, and, perhaps not coincidentally, much like our progress starting 10,000 years ago or so through to relatively modern times made our progress the previous few hundred thousand years seem glacial, in the last few hundred years, humanity has advanced to a level in that timespan that makes our progress the previous 10,000 years seem at a snail’s pace. While countless things went into that, at its core many of these factors derive and were the indirect product of these more modern structures for civilization that allow extra freedoms, education, and relative stability for its populaces’ to prosper on an individual level. This all brings us to the topic of today, the oldest still functioning codified constitution. 0:00 Intro 1:48 Living With the Animals 5:42 The OG Constitution 10:12 Doing a Bad Job in a Good Way 15:29 A Culmination 23:00 We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident 27:43 Too Good an Opinion of Human Nature 30:14 A Rising, Not a Setting Sun 45:19 Wherever There is an Interest and Power to Do Wrong, Wrong Will Generally Be Done 48:00 The Test of Time

That's DOCTOR Queen to you

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Oprah's Real Name

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I Pity the Fool (Why Mr. T is Called That)

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The Hundreds of Forgotten Fallout Shelters Scattered in the Wilderness

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The Day After Tomorrow is Called...

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What were Hitler's Relatives Up to During and After WWII?

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The Furthest Away From Earth Anyone Has Ever Been

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The Flatulent Reason Why Whoopi Goldberg is Called "Whoopi"

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I Did Nazi That Coming

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Mike Tyson and Brad Pitt

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The Horribly Dressed, Socially Awkward, Genius President

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Who Invented the Hydrogen Bomb?

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Germany's Laughably Awful Attempt at Naval Special Forces

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Who Invented the Jet Engine?

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America's First Power Couple

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,This video is #sponsored by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - https://discoverquincy.com/ History often remembers the great men of each era, their very public accomplishments, and the trials and tribulations they may or may not have gone through to get there, sometimes to the extreme. What’s often forgotten in many cases is the men generally didn’t do any of it alone. For most, there was their partner in life beside them supporting them through it all. Beyond such aphorisms as “Behind every great man, you’ll find a great woman”, as Ben Franklin noted in his June 25, 1745 “Old Mistresses Apologue”, “It is the Man and Woman united that make the complete human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.” Nowhere is this perhaps better illustrated than in the United States’ first power couple, John and Abigail Adams. Breaking many customs of their era, Abigail was subservient to no one, an equal partner in their combined journey to help create and shape the United States, with arguably only a handful of others having more influence on the United States today because of their work in its foundation than these two. While Thomas Jefferson would once state of John Adams during Adams’ Presidency, Adams “takes no counsel from anyone”, he was incorrect. His closest confidant and whom he thoroughly relied for her equally keen intellect next to her certifiably genius husband, was his wife, Abigail. As historian and author of Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage Edith Gelles, notes, "Abigail was his best ally, and because she was intelligent, well-informed and totally sympathetic with him, she was devoted to his politics. She probably was the best-informed and most reliable advisor to a president until Eleanor Roosevelt in the 20th century." On top of this, while her husband was off gallivanting across the nation and the world, leaving them parted for about half of the first two decades of their marriage, she also managed all the family’s affairs from approximately middle class to start, to later great prosperity in some rather ingenious ways that actually occasionally went against her husband’s wishes, as we’ll get into, but in the end doing it anyway and making John Adams one of the few early presidents who not only didn’t see near financial ruin because of the nature of the position at the time, but one who died relatively wealthy. This was in stark contrast to the likes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who started off incredibly wealthy and ended life deeply in debt- in Adams’ case, all achieved through Abigail’s keen mind for investments, allowing her husband to do his thing without concern for his financial base and homefront. Going back to her counsel, it is thus no coincidence that when John Adams finally ascended to the role of President, he desperately wrote to his then sick wife four hundred miles away in Quincy, “I never wanted your Advice and assistance more in my life…” And, “I can do nothing without you… Public affairs are so critical and dangerous that all our Thoughts must be taken up with them. I must intreat you, to loose not a moments time in preparing to come… assist me with your Councils…” The first woman to be both wife and later mother to a U.S. President, and generally ranked as one of the best female intellect’s of her era in the United States, so much so that she was given the nickname “Mrs. President” for her influence on affairs of state during her husband’s Presidency, Abigail Adams is the oft’ forgotten half of the power couple pair, and considered by many to be greatest among the little talked about “Founding Mothers”, and a woman future President Harry Truman would remark, “would have been a better President than her husband.” So let’s dive into it shall we? Author: Daven Hiskey Host: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila

Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII?

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Everything You Know About Edison and Tesla is Mostly Wrong

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,The first 500 people to use my link will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare - https://skl.sh/todayifoundout12231 If you’ve spent any time on the interwebs there are three almost universal facts you’re going to come across. Nikola Tesla was a God among mortals, Thomas Edison was a patent thief charlatan who we only remember today because of how he stole other people’s ideas, including Tesla’s. And, third, X is a horrible renaming of Twitter and Elon Musk should seriously rethink his decision making paradigm. And yet, up until relatively recently, Nikola Tesla was something of a footnote in popular history, Thomas Edison was considered one of the most prolific inventors ever, the 19th century’s answer to DaVinci, and X was an objectively useless letter of the alphabet. Seriously. It doesn’t need to exist. And neither does Q or C. But going back to Thomas Edison, as historian Keith Nier once very aptly noted, "He is actually one of the least well known of all famous people, and much of what everybody thinks they know about him is no more reliable than a fairy tale." And let me tell you, there is a reason this video is so long as Mr. Nier absolutely nailed it. Also because his life was an insanely interesting story. So, today we are going to cut through all the misinformation and do an ultra deep dive into the real story of Thomas Edison- whether he was really one of history’s ultimate creatives, or just someone who was really, really good at taking credit for other people’s work. In all this we are also going look at the various stories surrounding Nicholas Tesla and Edison, which, on this one. Just to cut to the chase, basically everything you’ve probably ever read about the supposed feud between those two is quite provably false. There was no feud. And not only did Edison not take any patents from Tesla, he actually allowed Tesla to patent things he came up with when working on projects at his job for Edison, even though this wasn’t typical, then or now, and it’s not really clear why Edison did this in Tesla’s case. But because Edison allowed this, via the sale of some of these, it allowed Tesla to crack on on his own. So much more on all this later! Because as much as there is an insane amount of misinformation about Edison, there’s just as much misinformation out there on Tesla. Stay tuned because we are going to clear that right up. So let’s clear it all up, shall we? Author: Daven Hiskey Host: Daven Hiskey Producer: Samuel Avila Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:41 No School No Problem 5:57 A 12 Year Old On a Mission and His First Business 10:52 You’ll Put Your Eye Out (Early Experiments) 13:30 Relentless Optimism 16:42 The Life You Save May Be Your Own 20:05 Whoopsadoodle 22:37 First Inventions and a Life Lesson 25:48 Making a Million Dollars By Keeping His Mouth Shut 30:54 A Kid in a Candy Shop and Making the Next Great Invention 32:59 His Actual Greatest Invention 35:18 Making the Telephone Commercially Viable 37:05 Did He Actually Invent “Hello”? 39:27 Inventing the First Device to Play Back Recorded Sound 43:10 The Wizard of Menlo Park 45:29 The Real Story of the Lightbulb 53:48 His Accidental Invention That Massively Changed the World That Nobody Talks About 56:36 More Power Mister Scott!!! 57:56 A Death and an Adorably Nerdy Marriage Proposal 1:03:12 The Future of Inventing 1:05:58 The Motion Picture 1:09:03 A Major Mistake 1:10:54 Electric Cars 1:15:02 Stepping Back 1:16:35 WWI and the Myth of Tesla and Radar 1:18:46 Do No Harm and More WWI 1:21:10 His Last Work and Death 1:22:20 The Edison / Tesla Myths 1:28:03 The Tesla / War of the Currents Myth 1:31:10 The Truth About Tesla’s Involvement in the War of the Currents 1:34:07 What Did Tesla and Edison Think of Each Other? 1:36:21 A Genius Among Us 1:39:12 Stealing Work? 1:42:15 The Face of a Brand 1:43:50 Working Style and What Did Edison’s Workers Think of Him? 1:47:05 Work Environment 1:51:10 Stealing Ideas? (Part 2) 1:53:25 Patents and a Ruthless Businessman? 1:58:42 The Truth About the Animal Killings 1:59:27 The Elephant Killing Myth 2:02:47 The Real Story of the War of the Currents 2:07:27 The Truth About the X-Ray 2:09:59 Back to the Truth About the War of the Currents, the Animal Killings, and the Electric Chair 2:16:28 Summing Up the Animal Killing Thing 2:18:02 Summing Up Everything 2:21:34 Bonus Fact This video is #sponsored by Skillshare.

A Deal with the Devil- That Time Britain and Germany Became Partners In the Middle of WWI

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Who Invented Lasers and How Do They Actually Work?

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The Fascinating Tale of Measuring Light and Upending Our Understanding of the Universe

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Germany's WWI Corpse Factories

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Who Actually Invented the Lightbulb?

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The Building That Exists in Two Countries At Once

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What was Hitler Like as a Child? And was His Grandfather Really Jewish?

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What's Inside the Egyptian Pyramids?

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The Pac-Man Ghosts

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Did the Easter Islanders Destroy Their Environment by Building Those Giant Stone Heads?

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Michael Jackson and JK Rowling

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Just "Deserts" is Not About Food

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Was the First Slave Holder in America Really a Black Man?

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What was the First YouTube Video and How Did YouTube Start?

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,Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring this video! New subscribers get 20% off their first box of awesome — go to https://bespokepost.com/brainfood and enter code BRAINFOOD at checkout Ah YouTube, a place where any beautifully bearded British bald man with a microphone and nerdy, socially awkward American, who despite being 42 from the sounds of it is still waiting on puberty to hit, can go to team up across oceans and make the world’s greatest edutainment channel according to the words that just came out of my mouth. In fact, just about anyone these days with a cell phone and a dream can make it big coming to this platform and, with very little technical know-how, launch whatever channel they want and put it in front of one of the largest audiences in the world, no longer beholden to the gatekeepers of yor. And, hey, if you don’t yet have the knowledge or skills needed to implement your vision, we’re quite confident that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of youtube videos out there that will teach you exactly what you need to know, for free. All that is required of you is time, effort, and a fair amount of determination to keep going and improving. On that note, fun fact about this channel, it took 532 videos until the channel took off. But while today YouTube is arguably one of the most well known brands and websites in the world, with about 2 billion active users in any given month, and has been one of the biggest revolutions in entertainment since Napster, Youtube isn’t even old enough to drink in the United States, at just 18 years old. Not only that, it turns out when YouTube was first started, it was not meant to be a general video sharing platform but, rather, a dating and hookup website. So how did they go from a site to seek a spicy time partner to one where even this guy can somehow be watched by millions? And just what was the first ever YouTube video? (Which by the way doesn’t appear to be what literally everyone says. More on that in the Bonus Facts later.) But for now, have a seat on your porcelain throne or prepare your meal and sit down to eat, which we’re pretty sure comprises 90% of all views on YouTube outside of people using these videos to distract their brains from thoughts of the inevitability of death while trying to fall asleep... And, either way, let’s dive into it shall we? This video is #sponsored by Bespoke Post.

Why Does the U.S. Have Such an Insanely Large Prison Population?

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A Much Greater Story- The Iliad's Lost Sequels

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An Incredibly Deep Dive Into the Fascinating Invention of the Helicopter

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The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper

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How Corrupt was the Roman Senate Really?

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