Ever wonder why Mr. T is called that? He first acquired the moniker (a shortening of his real name Lawrence Tureaud) in backlash for the once common practice of calling a black man "boy." Said Mr. T, "I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’... So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is Mr."
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Host: Simon Whistler
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0:00 How Did the Ancient Romans Manage to Build Perfectly Straight, Ultra Durable Roads?
17:35 What was It Really Like to Be a Slave in Ancient Rome?
31:14 How Did the Ancient Romans Make Concrete So Much Better Than Ours?
41:42 Were the Ancient Romans Really Wildly Debauched or Actually Prudes
53:45 Did Gladiators Really Live or Die Based on Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down by the Audience?
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1:37:03 The Chickens That Decided Ancient Rome’s Major Events and Shaped World History
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“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
,1,In today's video, we're looking at What's Up with the All Seeing Eye on the Dollar Bill? Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe? Why is the Stereotypical Image of Aliens Green or Grey Bald Humanoids? How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon? What Really Causes Chemtrails? The Truth About the Freemasons: The Not-So-Secret Society Did Any Musicians Actually Put Backwards Satanic Messages in Their Songs? and Why Do People Think There are Aliens in Area 51?
Chapters:
0:00 What's Up with the All Seeing Eye on the Dollar Bill
14:52 Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
35:37 Why is the Stereotypical Image of Aliens Green or Grey Bald Humanoids?
54:33 How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon?
1:28:12 What Really Causes Chemtrails?
1:35:49 The Truth About the Freemasons: The Not-So-Secret Society
1:48:12 Did Any Musicians Actually Put Backwards Satanic Messages in Their Songs?
2:03:04 Why Do People Think There are Aliens in Area 51?
,1,Ever wonder why Mr. T is called that? He first acquired the moniker (a shortening of his real name Lawrence Tureaud) in backlash for the once common practice of calling a black man "boy." Said Mr. T, "I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’... So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is Mr."
