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[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Note: I definitely meant to say NEWTON was a Christian, not Einstein. My bad. Einstein definitely was not.

[@matts5247]

Back then like 99% of civilized population of Europe was Christian lol. I know Christianity actually held back a lot of science back then and groups like the Illuminati had to form to pursue science in secret since people were unable to reconcile that you can have both science and religion. I myself am a Christian however I have the belief that even God has to operate within the laws of physics. (He created those laws if you’re a believer). I know I’m going on a tangent but it’s actually a pretty intriguing philosophical discussion. I think God can do anything on command and so something like bringing someone back from the dead or angels demons or any of the things that can’t be explained through science doesn’t mean it defies our laws it jsut defies our CURRENT laws but there is so much we don’t know. But I mean with string theory and a lot of the cutting edge quantum stuff with multiple dimensions and what not could explain heaven and hell and tangible spiritual warfare (I know that sounds like an oxymoron I just mean like actual spiritual warfare that is going on that isn’t just in our heads but it actually happening all around us just not in our realm) But back to my original point it’s jsut interesting because jsut saying what I jsut said I would have been burnt at the stake for not that long ago. But from what I understand about Newton he himself was kind of limited by this thinking and thought a lot of wacky things trying to use religion to override science. (Not to underplay his role as the original physicist lol) [end rant]

[@Syncronoise]

I was getting ready to type my disgruntled comment, thank you for the honesty. xD

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

Tbf it's an easy mix-up to make, as Einstein often used the term "God" as an easy-to-understand allegory for the nature of the universe. His famous use of it was "God does not play dice with the universe", meaning that nature couldn't be explained as sheer randomness, equivalent to throwing of a dice.

[@wohodude100]

I was about to comment on that part, but really appreciate your honesty and clarifying that you were talking about Isaac Newton and not Einstein

[@bmorejester1475]

Yeah, Einstein was Jewish.

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

“I cannot tell a lie. I’m gonna sell it to the highest bidder” 😂😂😂 best quote ever

[@BtheLee11]

that quote itself should go down in history haha

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

@@BtheLee11 fr

[@jeffslote9671]

Remember as Abraham Lincoln said never believe everything you read on the internet. Always do your own research

[@jasp3rjeep13]

My favorite "Abraham Lincoln" quotes (from Oversimplified): "Hey, it's war, baby. What are you gonna do?" "You're about to get a roundhouse to the face."

[@billfilios2677]

I had to smile when you pointed out the width of the Delaware and the Mississippi varies depending on where you are. True enough. I’ve often told friends how my dad, to raise money for a charity, walked across America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, when I was a boy. It’s true, he did, but what gets folks is when I point out it only took him two days. You see it was in Central America, he walked across Panama.

[@bjornodin]

That is epic! 😂😂😂

[@robertjarman3703]

A few days ago i told KZbin to search for your channel using voice search and it accidentally searched for Flogging Through History, which i suppose is what happens when you start acknowledging your bias as a Christian pastor and how epic it was that Jesus whipped the moneychangers out of the temple.

[@randomperson6433]

When your mistakes are more entertaining than your intentions… 😂

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

Oh man. NOT TODAY SATAN!

[@dobber43]

​@@randomperson6433one day my friends iphone randomly pulled up siri so he said "f*** you b****" and it pulled up a youtube video of a comedic country breakup song by wheeler walker Jr so we spent a while just listening thru his songs laughing sometimes ur mistakes are better than ur intentions.

[@Kilo1911]

😂😂😂

[@randomperson6433]

@@dobber43 I feel like that should be a comedy sketch!

[@Kapagna]

“Let them eat cake”. To further clarify, there was a law in Paris at that time. It required that if a bakery ran out of bread, they then had to sell their pastries at the same price as bread so that the poor could afford something to eat.

[@ml8028]

Is that really true- about the bread/cake ect…… being a law when Marie Antoinette made her favorite statement “let them eat cake”.

[@Kapagna]

@@ml8028I have a BA in history. I haven’t looked at first hand sources, but that’s what my professor told me.

[@-Maxi.exe03]

Everything I've heard about Diogenes is hilarious. When I was in school and attended Latin classes we translated a story about Diogenes. In it Alexander the Great goes to visit the philospher and upon meeting him declared "If i wasnt Alexander i would wish to be Diogenes". Diogenes replied by saying "If I wasnt Diogenes I would also wish to be Diogenes."

[@WaywardTemplar1314]

18:20 Einstein did fail an entrance exam for a Swiss Polytechnic Institute. (He failed the French portion of the exam)

[@jeffslote9671]

Simon is must be responsible for at least 80% percent of KZbin’s content by now.

[@randomperson6433]

I’m ok with this. There’s a channel for every mood.

[@David-fm6go]

@@randomperson6433 I fear the quality is degrading. Last month, the side projects video "Historical Events that Didn't Happen Like You Think" was 70% misinformation. The portion on the Titanic embraced both the coal fire myth and the weak steel conspiracy theory, both of which have been debunked by legitimate Titanic researchers, such as the authors of "On a Sea of Glass". Worse still was the portion on the Emancipation Proclamation and Abraham Lincoln, which was borderline Lost Cause. In seeking to dismiss the Emancipation Proclamation, they completely ignored Lincoln's role in the 13th Amendment (but made sure to highlight that it was ratified after his death as if to imply Lincoln was not involved with it), failed to provide the legal and political necessity behind the excluded areas in the Proclamation, and cited Lincoln's 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate comments without any context or explanation. Granted, Simon might not be aware of how the amendment process works in the US, but his writers and researchers really bungled this episode.

[@rickybuhl3176]

Simon 'The Network' Whistler - and as long as he says 'Empire' once in a while, I'll keep subbing to them lol

[@corinna007]

The guy never sleeps.

[@odinulveson9101]

Hes like an unhinged, coffeine blooded workaholic and a demi-god of knowledge. As long as it dosent wreck him hes bringing a wealth of reflective for thought topics. And Im aaaall for it 👌

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

I always interpreted the Gordian Knot being an example of how Alexander thought outside the box, not that he solved his problems with brute force.

[@graffitisamurai]

Yeah, I always thought the point was that sometimes people get so caught up in the esoteric that they ignore the obvious answer.

[@fuzzlewit9]

Me too!

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I thought it was meant to make Alexander look a bit like Herakles (Hercules) because that solution fits right in with how the Greek hero solved his problems. Finding the simple solution that others fail to see.

[@BigOldW]

I'm currently working on a thesis project regarding the history between Russia and Ukraine during the early 20th century. This channel has been a huge inspiration in my pursuit of my history degree.

[@romanpfander8905]

The myth of why Einstein failed maths originated in Germany. The grades in school go from 1 (the best possible grade) to 6 (the worst). However, in Switzerland, where he went to high school, the grading goes from 6 (best) to 1 (worst). Thus, when Einstein got a 6 in maths and physics, Germans thought that he must have failed those subjects.

[@fuzzlewit9]

The argument that movement is an illusion because in order to walk any distance you'd have to walk half that distance first, which is logically true, and that you can then continue to half that distance for infinity, therefore a person would need to complete an infinite number of actions to get from one place to another, is genius. It's logical and yet clearly nonsense. I love it!

[@mattm7798]

True...except there is a point at which a distance can no longer be cut in half, thus it is not an infinite number of events.

[@jamesmorseman3180]

It’s not nonsense at all actually. It actually gives profound knowledge about our universe. The paradox is indeed logically sound, and the only reason it doesn’t hold is because it turns out space can’t infinitely be divided- there is a smallest size to reality. This is literal, it’s not some philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It’s actually quite an astounding conclusion to get to by a single logically thought experiment.

[@mattm7798]

@@jamesmorseman3180 It's actually not logically sound because it doesn't line up with our reality: like you said, space(distance) is not infinitely divisible. If it was, the argument would at least be logically sound.

[@jamesmorseman3180]

@@mattm7798 no that’s exactly the point, the paradox is pointing out that one of two things is not logically sound. Given the axioms of the situation in the paradox (space can be infinitely divided) you come to the conclusion that motion isn’t real. We observe motion, we know it’s real, so something in the foundation of the argument does not line up with our reality. In this case it’s what we’re highlighting already-space has a smallest possible size on the smallest scales. This was not known to the ancients, and Zeno’s paradox is an argument by contradiction challenging people to find the flaw in the logic which brings us to that conclusion.

[@mattm7798]

@@jamesmorseman3180 So an argument that is intentionally invalid is still valid because the point of it is to find the thing that makes it invalid? Hmmm, interesting.

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

Diogenes was a homeless man who lived in a barrel. When Alexander the Great approached Diogenes, Alexander asked if there was anything he could do for this renowned scholar. Diogenes said "You could stop blocking my sunlight."

[@RoyFizzle]

Damn my jaw dropped when I heard that the Niña and La Pinta weren’t the real ship names 😂

[@anathardayaldar]

"Ouch!" - Julius Caesar

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

One of the reasons I respect your channel as much as I do: you admit your biases and work at remaining objective. You handled the Solomon story perfectly pointing out it's a question of sources and even laying out the problem with the source. There's a LOT of people (Christian and non) who even if they were that honest about bias wouldn't take the time to do it as well.

[@wompa70]

That we're talking about the last words spoken by someone assassinated almost 2,070 years ago is amazing to me.

[@TreantmonksTemple]

I guess I'm a bit more skeptical, but I find the story that a king tied a knot and offered his kingdom to anyone who could untie it completely unbelievable before we even get into what Alexander did with it.

[@-Maxi.exe03]

Agreed

[@KommandoCraftLP]

lol you here, my KZbin really is a bubble! But I agree, however it seems winning it at the magical or philosophical lottery at least was a not too uncommon legend to legitimize your (or someone else's) aristocratic rule before "god or the pope said so" became the go to.

[@zjjohnson3827]

Long after you are dead, someone is gonna come forward and publish a book claiming you actually had a YT channel dedicated to India’s history

[@nickshaffer9961]

These are great. Sam O Nella did a great episode about Diogenes. Definitely worth checking out haha

[@samrevlej9331]

29:11 Chris... Einstein was Jewish. He fled Germany for that reason. And he himself said he was more of a pantheist in Spinoza's style, that he believed in a God that was in everything that surrounded us instead of a transcendent ethereal entity.

[@ericbradley9740]

My guess is he meant to say deist. As he believed in some concept of God.

[@KeganStucki]

I was thinking it may have just been a Fruedian slip. Perhaps he was thinking of Newton, or someone, and Einstein came out.

[@samrevlej9331]

@@KeganStucki Might’ve been

[@samrevlej9331]

@@ericbradley9740 Unlikely, as the comment was about how science and religion are not incompatible, and since Chris is a Christian, he was probably thinking of a Christian scientist. I’m tempted to agree with @KeganStucki

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I definitely meant to say Newton there.

[@mikeoxlong3676]

The burning of the library of alexandria truly is one of the greatest tragedys in history.

[@HDreamer]

As I understand the more recent consensus is that the Event considered "the burning of the library" was not that bad and it was really more a constant decline than a one event destruction.

[@N3moSports]

29:18 fun fact: Galileo was actually a catholic christian even though he was at odds with the catholic church. He never intended to dissprove catholicism by proving a heliocentric solar system, he was just facinated by gods creation and thought that science was a part of it.

[@undertakernumberone1]

whcih was the standard for most scientist back in the day. Galileo screwed up on multiple levels. Not least of which was that the pope allowed his book... and Galileo excluded a number of other views on the world (Brahe for example, Keppler) and then proceeded to put the words of the pope into the mouth of hte guy who's obviously written to be wrong in the debate. Galileo himself also wasn't right btw. Yes, he advocated heliocentrism... but not epileptic paths of the planets but perfect circles. Hence why Brahe's version was more appropriate to what the people back then could see and research: They knew the planets didn't travel in perfect circles. He also said that the tides came from the movement of the earth, not the moon, which even in his time was refuted.

[@JulyFourth1776]

I found this channel just now and I also just finished my Masters in History. Great timing and great video!

[@davidlloyd150]

I'm not a reaction video guy but I'm a subscriber because you mostly add context and I appreciate that!

[@eliashigham8901]

Simon pronouncing Brute as one syllable is cracking me up. The Greek phrase Caesar supposedly said is “Kai su, teknon?”

[@Adamdidit]

I can't believe Tech N9ne would do this. 😂 Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[@godwarrior3403]

The red sea thing regarding Franklin makes sense to me. His people getting let go by their opressive ruler. Maybe even making a point of that oppressive ruler getting taken out in his attempt to stop them.

[@Legacysong2012]

The Moses parting the seas Seal to me seems to be symbolizing America being freed from Britain rule. The American people being freed and lead to their own promised land.

[@GDLean12]

An idea for a "travel" vlog for you. I think you mentioned in a video before that one of your goals is to shoot an M1 Garand. The Fat Electrician has some friends in Texas that may be able to not only fulfill that dream, but give you the opportunity to fire just about every firearm from WWI and WWII along with the stories behind their development and use. Just a fun idea. They host creator range days as well where they invite all kinds of creators to come down and fire just about everything. Also, Drive Tanks in Texas where you can drive and fire a Sherman.

[@wwciii]

Socrates last words "I drank what"

[@ezbucs]

This is definitely probably one of the best channels on KZbin👍

[@kennethestes1828]

Definitely, probably, going to watch part II.

[@enderjacket6384]

Enjoying the video, keep it up!

[@davidnicholas7516]

Back in the day I remember reading or hearing about Xeno's paradox, with the epilogue that the Romans fed him to the lions, with him supposedly insisting he was safe because his paradox meant the lion would never reach him...

[@richardarriaga6271]

Calculus says he's lion food

[@lop90ful1]

This was a great idea i love seeing historical rumors get disproven

[@rogerb3654]

Great Reaction Vid. I follow Simon. I take what he says w/grain of 'salt' (pun intended) but will use it as a launching point to research further. Looking forward to Part 2 🏛📜🧂⛵👑👸🏻👍

[@Skeaik]

Brother you are so good at this!

[@waunke56]

Also crazy how fast the Mississippi gets big. You go to the twin cities and its a huge bridge like a half mile long to get over the Mississippi. And your only half way down minnesota.

[@a.wenger3964]

22:37 Although Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity, in his biography _Bejamin Franklin - An American Life_ (2003) the author Walter Isaacson upholds that the experiement did indeed happen, saying: "The delay by Franklin in reporting his kite experiment has led some historians to wonder if he truly did it that summer, and one recent book even charges that his claim was a "hoax." Once again, the meticulous I. Bernard Cohen has done an exhaustive job of historical sleuthing. Drawing on letters, reports, and the fact that lightning rods were erected in Philadelphia that summer, he concludes after forty pages of analysis that "there is no reason to doubt that Franklin had conceived and executed the kite experiment before hearing the news of the French performance." he goes on to say that it was performed "not only by Franklin, but by others," and he adds that "we may with confidence conclude that Franklin performed the lightning kite experiment in June 1752, and that soon after, in later June or July 1752, it was in Philadelphia that the first lightning rods ever to be erected were put in service." "Indeed, it is unreasonable, I think, to believe that Franklin fabricated the June date or other facts of his kite experiment. There is no case of his ever embellishing his scientific achievements, and his description and the account by Priestly contain enough specific color and detail to be convincing. Had he wanted to embellish, Franklin would have claimed that he flew his kite before the French scientist carried out their version of his experiment; instead, he generously admitted that the French scientist were the first to prove his theory. And Franklin's son, with whom he later had a vicious falling-out, never contradicted the well told tale of the kite."

[@bradjbourgeois73]

I jumped over the Mississippi River in Minnesota! I live across the street from it in Louisiana... BIG difference!

[@greatgolfer23]

Three! Love your videos!!

[@mikeor-]

The origin of Nero singing while Rome burned was written by another Roman historian, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillis. Suetonius, who lived during the reign of Emperor Haridian, wrote a book called Vitae Caesarae (The Lives of the Caesars) detailing the reigns of Julius Caesar and eleven Emperors who came after him. Suetonius came up with this myth.

[@davidburroughs2244]

Are we calling Nero a lyre? Or are we calling him a lyre player? Is there any record we can use as a player for those reports?

[@elizasimmons9039]

Thank you guys, I would love a coop with Schwerpunkt! Rock on

[@Talon2727]

I love these type of videos

[@galloe8933]

Long time ago, my dad got me a "Swiss army knife" or just a cheap folding blade with a red handle, tweezers, and scissors. It was the coolest, and I was almost certainly 6, but dad says to me that it was for carving sticks, and not carving into trees. About a week into owning the knife, or days, or even a month, I was a "baby" and times passed... So, I am through a corn field (The field is huge, so I went in the corn and came out) and on the other side of the field is a ditch, and along the ditch are sumac, and brown leafy trees, not big but not scrubs like the sumac is. I went to those trees, found a good one and carved a sailboat into it. No one ever found out, so no one ever asked, so I also never told a lie. I have never told this story, and 1993 was a long time ago so I'm pretty sure I won't get spanked and sent to my room for what I did.

[@pacldawson]

The point you made about the varying length of the Potomac from its origin point to its end reminds me of a t-shirt they sell at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy: "I hiked the (width of the) Appalachian Trail".

[@travelingwithhubert3240]

You mentioned Sgt. York and the doubt attached to his Medal of Honor actions. I saw a video of a Major who went to the battle site and found artifacts related to those actions that seem to support the battle reports. I regret that I can't remember more about that.

[@jeffslote9671]

For it to be made up it would have required a lot of people to lie at the time

[@pwalmsley9]

You know what's funny - I saw the original video pop up in my feed earlier today and thought to myself "Oh I wonder if Chris is going to do a reaction to this one!" and then a few hours later here it is! XD

[@Strathaczar]

Simon does indeed have a ton of channels. However, 3 for sure (that I know of) are no longer his... TopTensNet, Geographics, and Biographics are owned by the company he previously worked for. He still does videos like that, just under different channel names now (such as SideProjects), and under his own banner.

[@svenrio8521]

I thought Simon did own the company, just that he no longer appears on those channels?

[@Strathaczar]

@@svenrio8521 For all intents and purposes, he very well could. I don't really 100% remember the specifics beyond the lady who owns/co-owns them now inherited them from her father, and her and Simon had a falling out. There's a video out about it, but that's what I remember about what was said. There may be more I don't quite remember.

[@user-np9dv2yi2k]

They were never his 😆

[@will2003michael2003]

I don’t really watch their stuff anymore but their channel was the first channel I got into on KZbin and hooked me in. Mostly because I found out so much of my beliefs about the world were not true.

[@tbone6032]

The Einstein failing math thing actually does have an origin of truth even though it’s wrong. His school gave number grades, with high numbers being the best grade and low being the worst (this might be backwards). At one point when Einstein was there they switched it, so he want from the top (say a 10) to the new top (say a 1). Someone saw this and thought that meant he failed even though he didn’t

[@MrEloliver]

about that last one, I went to french high school where we studied the revolution intensively (probably just as much as americans study theirs) in history class, and I've never heard any of my professors say that she said "may they eat cake" or anything like that. However Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a prominent figure of the Lumières philosophical movement at that time and it would make sense that he would make up that stuff to show how disconnected the monarchy was.

[@ParanormalEncyclopedia]

Respectfully, while a lot of important scientists (Galileo, Copernicus, Mendel, Lamaitre) Einstein really wasn't one of them. He was born to a Jewish family and raised Jewish. As an adult he was not really religious at all. The only times he really talked about God was in the Spinoza sense as a metaphor for the principles of physics the universe operates on closer to pantheism if anything.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

He meant to say Newton

[@martinalther6661]

Actually, according to Walter Isaacson’s Einstein biography, he DID see God as more than just a simple metaphor - he believed in a vague universal intelligence that established natural law and order but not a God that you could personally interact with. He actually had very complicated and sometimes conflicting views of God and religion. Ones that defied any kind of firm label.

[@rustyknott-W.D]

About the logic of Xeno's Paradox: One could make the argument that trees moving make the wind blow.

[@David-fm6go]

Chris, after Simon took a near lost cause hatchet job to Abraham Lincoln in last month's video, "Historical Events that Didn't Happen Like You Think", I find it hard to see side projects in a positive light. It may not be razorfist level bad, but it is very cringe. Its a shame, because I have become very fond of his "decoding the unknown channel".

[@blackberrythorns]

there's a documentary called "cracking the shakespeare code" which is great. sir francis bacon, among his many writings, wrote "new atlantis" which inspired the creation of the royal society. the 'baconian method' was the clearest expression of the scientific method. he was also involved in the foundation of the british colony in newfoundland (around the same time as jamestown). many have argued he should be included among the founding fathers of the united states as well.

[@f00dify]

During the People Jumping out of Windows and showing the image of people standing in line, I instantly thought of Monty Python. They did do one called People Falling Out O High Buildings, but it's not the exact image I had in mind for it.

[@jeremyfrady271]

29:12 Did you mean Issac Newton?

[@jarrettlowery2802]

I think he did

[@KeganStucki]

That was my thought.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yes, I definitely meant Newton.

[@Sebastian244.4]

29:12 did he really just say that Einstein was a Christian?

[@jeffmartin5419]

Yeah, I can't find any evidence of that. He wasn't a practicing Jew but his beliefs seem to come from a mix of Jewish and scientific contexts.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I meant Newton.

[@jamescritchlow3445]

on the subject on skipping stones. Mark Rober has a video on how you can skip a stone upwards of 20 times. my record is 22.

[@CSpad]

My older brother got an F in P.E. just to piss my old man off. He was starting WR & Pitcher as a Freshman in H.S. You really have to try or just not show up to fail P.E. 😊

[@amberhon]

My grandmother's uncle jumped off a bridge after losing money during the Depression, just not in 1929 but in 1933. Her aunt's husband shot himself after losing a lot in investments as well. So, I always took it as a fact that people committed suicide during the Depression after losing money.

[@alexanderyacht6483]

Also, a quick check of Wikipedia shows that the Romans built a new Carthage on the site of the old one and it became one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire.

[@KLICKTRICKERS]

Swiss Person here, about the Einstein thing : the myth about him failing math comes from him getting the grade 6 in math, which is the best grade in Switzerland, where he went to school. In Germany however, 6 is the worst grade one can get, so that’s where I’ve always heard that coming from !

[@marcuslobo5765]

Also wasn't the heliocentric model first put forward by copernicus who was also a member of the clergy

[@gmwdim]

The story of Zeno's paradox is well known to anyone who's taken calculus class, because it's this (and similar) seeming contradictions that calculus addresses with the concept of infinite series and infinitesimal change.

[@Snorlax-cuddles]

The first time I heard the story about Catherine the great and the horse was actually on a episode of the big bang theory. The show presented it as fact given that it was told by Amy, one of the smart characters.

[@pacldawson]

As far as "let them eat cake" (whoever - if anyone - said that) is concerned, it was my understanding that the reference was to the residue that cakes onto the sides of baking pans and not a reference to something like red velvet cakes. 🙂

[@AndyHoward]

The song by Steely Dan "Black Friday" When Black Friday comes I'll stand down by the door And catch the gray men when they Dive from the fourteenth floor

[@Hollywood2021]

Hey Chris! I just saw a video that I believe would be an amazing VTH reaction. You may have been recommended/seen it, but it's called "The Problem With the USA's Borders" by Atlas Pro. It's total gem, his best video IMO...but I have no doubt you would take to another level.

[@Durakken]

Your first response... I want to say that story that comes out right after the guy dies is more likely to be false while, if a story comes out 100+ years later, not as likely, because there are things that simply don't get found out till much later because they were purposefully hiding them or just no one cared to investigate in the original time period.

[@David-fm6go]

35:10 Another thing is that we look back on the stock market crash with hindsight as to what came next. No one in October 1929 would have known just how bad it would get and the market actually recovered for a time in 1930. It was only the acceleration of the bank failures in the later half of 1930 into 1931 that tipped the country into what would become known as the Great Depression.

[@AdamNisbett]

Haven’t started the video yet, but to my mind the viral video that keeps going around of some pastor’s rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It Before” is one of the most popular modern stories that I keep coming across that have been so distorted in that telling (but is now becoming widely assumed to be the truth due to the vitality) as to probably qualify for this list.

[@maxpokebruh27]

19:10 Also with that particular Lincoln/Kennedy comparison, there's no city in Maryland called Monroe. At least I don't think there is .

[@sedmark6328]

The pockets in the togas should have been a dead giveaway that Shakespeare wasn’t totally accurate

[@polumathes9729]

I’ll admit this isn’t my favorite video Simon did. I just feel like he had some things in there that were more up-for-debate then he was letting on. Everyone’s got one though.

[@IowanMatthew683]

19:28 Einstein did initially fail the Zurich Polytechnic Entrance Exam but only in the sections on language, botany, and zoology. He excelled at the physics and mathematics portions of the test and eventually did pass a year later. That being said, he did struggle in his career for a number of years after his graduation and it took 9 years for him to get a job in academia because of his theories.

[@marylynnmazzocco5367]

Martha Washington had 4 children by her first husband. Two died by the time she married Washington. Sadly the last 2 children died young also.

[@QuantitativeMethods]

I love watching VTH getting sucked farther and farther into the Whistlerverse and not even realize it's happening.

[@Panthror]

On Nero and the fiddle: Maybe it was a slightly different phrase that got "lost in translation" over time, perhaps it was: 'While Rome burnt, Nero fiddled with his lyre.'

[@mikeor-]

Washington Irving did write the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Some people confuse that book with the Headless Horseman by Mayne Reid, who wrote that book some thirty years later. Reid was probably inspired by the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which does have a headless horseman, only that one was a Hessian, and the one in Reid's book was Henry Poindexter.

[@IowanMatthew683]

25:31 On the note of national seals and symbols, Thomas Jefferson originally wanted to put the legendary Germanic warrior brothers Hengist and Horsa on the official seal of the U.S. For those not aware, Hengist and Horsa were the mythical ancestors of the Angles and Saxons who invaded England after the fall of Rome and thus the ancestors of the modern English people.

[@Blackdiamondprod.]

4:48 the Temptations movie is a god example of that.

[@xyzaxy230]

According to my Latin teacher, Tacitus was probably unreliable because he wanted the Roman Republic back, which means he maybe exaggerated some of the emperors' evils

[@kieranfrancke790]

I had a great time meeting you at the Gettysburg Film Festival about a month ago. It was so great to meet you and I promise we will meet again and I probably will do a tour or two soon!

[@Why-D]

The first universities in Europe were founded by the church, of course for the study of theology but often also for other sciences and the medicine. That studied doctors were not allowed to make surgeries was due to the lower orders, every student got, like a priest and therefore was not allowed to be responsible for the death of a person. So craftsmen surgeons had to make surgeries or even open bodies for anatomic studies.

[@Tum35]

Just wanted to note, Einstein was jewish, why he also left Germany before the WW2. Actually there where german scientist trying to deproof his physics, becouse its "jewish physics"

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I meant Newton.

[@bobburris4445]

I can believe that Washington threw a dollar across the Potomac. A dollar went A LOT further back then than it does now!

[@healthtrooper]

Albert's school grades at 17:38 made me go down a small research. I was very confused that the grades were apparently very bad (a lot of sixes, the worst grade in Germany even at that time), but I learned he actually failed his graduation at his last german school (definitely not because of his maths or physics grades but other subjects) and attempted another graduation in Switzerland, were he managed to graduate (with the grades at 17:38) and the Swiss grading system is exactly opposite, so 6 is the best grade not the worst. Interesting...I guess that is were that story might have originated from.

[@benjamingood2311]

As absurd as the whole Zeno story may sound, the concept of getting infinitely close to a point without reaching it is actually pretty important in mathematics. Zeno (assuming this is the same Zeno I have heard of) is sometimes pointed to as a pioneering figure in calculus.

[@TheHbase]

To better understand Zeno's paradox of motion, I suggest reading Infinitesimal by Amir Alexander. It's about the history of indivisibles in mathematics and how basically Zeno's paradox was at the heart of some huge mathematical arguments during the 17th century. Better way to put the paradox would be something like this: Imagine a finite line. Divide the line in half. Divide the two parts in half, and so on and so on infinite times. Now your line has infinite number of parts. Do these parts have a value? If these parts have a value, then the line should be infinitely long and not finite. If the parts don't have value, then the line also doesn't have a value and can't exist.

[@grizzlymc6272]

Would love to see you react to the Animarchy History’s the Life of Hans Joachim-Marseille

[@svenrio8521]

18:56 Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team during his sophomore year. He was 5'11. Later on during that summer he would grow to his famous height, but it still goes to show that even a legend had his failures.

[@armadildo5740]

Since this video mentioned Diogenes, you should see Sam O'nella's video on Diogenes, it's hilarious

[@Chameleonis]

I think that the misconseption with Eistein came from different grading system elsewhere. Germany used scale 6-1 (6 is the best grade, 1 is the worst) While for example in Czechia (probably origined in Austria) and other countries we use 1-5 scale (1 is the best, 5 is the worst grade)

[@anderskorsback4104]

The thing about Einstein being bad at math has a small grain of truth to it, though the way it gets told greatly misrepresents it. Einstein did lament his "difficulties with mathematics", but in doing so, he referred to tensor calculus, which is really high end university-level mathematics that he needed to learn to be able to develop General Relativity. Einstein certainly had no difficulty with elementary or high school level mathematics.

[@shathriel]

Nero, I have the Ancient Rome, the rise and fall of an empire Dvd made by the BBC where Nero was played by Michael Sheen, Sheen absolutely knocked it out of the park playing Nero, all six episodes are well worth a watch.

[@cactuscornette]

On the subject of science in the middle ages, look up pope Sylvester II, the guy was a bonafide renaissance man(about 500 years before the Renaissance), among the things he did was studying math in Al-Andalus as a young man.