Maria Theresa: The Might of the Habsburgs

[@rabidheartbeats5953]

"29 years, 6 months, 6 days; that makes 29 years, 335 months, 1540 weeks, 10,781 days, 258,744 hours" made me tear up a little.

[@TIFFANYDlAS]

Me too! I had to rewind and watch it again, the amount of pain you have to be in to do that’s calculation, that’s her measuring her happiness. The beginning and the end. That’s heartbreaking.

[@Jason-gg4lm]

@@TIFFANYDlAS odd

[@rschmidt93]

The fact she really did the math to figure out how much time they had together made me genuinely sad

[@earlenewallace8445]

Me too 😢😢😢

[@almighty3946]

Me three

[@luisaguilar5343]

same, didn't expect to feel sad

[@alengrm7488]

She’s very respected in Slovenia. Everybody knows about her reforms especially about compulsory schooling😊

[@LjuboCupic1912]

If I may ask, what is the Slovenian opinion about their time under the Hapsburgs in general?

[@figaroo4816]

Ona je razlog zakaj avstrici govorijo nemško in ne slovensko.

[@figaroo4816]

@@LjuboCupic1912 its really good actually. But i can only speak for myself.

[@lukasbrauner9862]

@@figaroo4816 I hope thats a joke haha.

[@figaroo4816]

@@lukasbrauner9862 whats a joke?

[@theKeshaWarrior]

Daaaamn, her writing down how long they were together hour by hour, really got me... That kind of love and that kind of pain when you lose it, is very relatable.

[@helenafarkas4534]

Empress Elizabeth of Russia. daughter of Peter the Great, precursor to Catherine the Great, owner of the single largest wardrobe in Europe (a record that possibly stands to this day), who refused to sign a single death warrant her entire reign, but kept her entire empire paralyzed with fear due to her omnipresent secret police. never married, but imported her nephew to be her heir - but ended up training his wife to follow after her instead. no catalogue of female rulers would be complete without her.

[@DarthPlato]

She never married because the Russian Orthodox patriarch refused to sanction the marriage. He was trying to use it as leverage to get Elizabeth to roll back the actions that Peter the Great had taken against the Orthodox Church as an institution. She never caved.

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

Yeah.. I also wanna see this...

[@pyromania1018]

She had quite a few affairs, though, with the captain of her guards being her favorite. When that burned out, he introduced her to someone else before quietly withdrawing from court (though they maintained contact for many years afterwards).

[@myfuneralismytimetoshine]

Alexei Razumovsky: I'm I a joke to you?

[@pyromania1018]

@@myfuneralismytimetoshine Yeah, that's his name.

[@nevyen149]

The Maria Theresa Thaler is still the longest minted coin in the world, and the longest used coin in the world, being in continual production since 1741, and legal tender in some countries until something like the early 1980's. The coin was so accepted around the world, that it was counterfeited by the OSS in WWII to pay for secret operations in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. You can still buy modern strikings from the Austrian mint, and original ones can be found here and there in coin shops. Original ones are also used to make jewelry in some parts of Africa.

[@emckethern]

Do you know if it's worth anything?

[@nevyen149]

@@emckethern Everything in coins has to do with condition. No matter how nice a condition, a modern copy (called a restrike) is worth no more than what a new one costs, since you can still buy them. Absent any collectors value they are worth what the going rate for the silver content is at the time you try to sell. New ones are about 75% silver, and the rest copper. Maybe just under $30 U.S. to buy new, and 20 bucks or so for silver value. A quick Google search shows an antique one goes for up to $900 U.S. For comparison, Sterling silver is 92.5% silver, U.S. coins until 1975 (ish) were 40%, and the U.S. Morgan silver dollars were about 90%.

[@emckethern]

@@nevyen149 thanks for the info!!!

[@mathiasbartl9393]

Still minted in large quantities and at best a few hundred years old.

[@nevyen149]

@@mathiasbartl9393 Pretty much what I wrote. Thanks for your input?

[@studogable]

Maria Theresa's emphasis on professional competence was crucial in quelling the vampire hysteria during her reign. She outlawed digging up graves to look for vampires, following her chief physician's advice that the vampire craze was absolute nonsense. As an adjunct to this, she also outlawed witch trials - which had gone out of fashion but were not entirely extinct in some corners of the empire.

[@Jason-gg4lm]

But vampires are real! 🤣

[@ethanramos4441]

“I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own, also without consul because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop” Maria Theresa

[@simonabelciug8527]

It seems that despite the odds, women make the best rulers and administrators of countries! Maria Teresa, Elisabeth I, Victoria, Catherine de Great, formidable prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Angela Merkel....and many more.

[@HiHi-it1vr]

@@simonabelciug8527 Jiang Qing

[@nadie8093]

@@simonabelciug8527 peter the great, winston churchill, Julius Caesar, Alexander the great, cyrus the great, augustus, suleiman the magnificent, Charlemagne, Mahoma, Ptolomy I, etc... want to know your location

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@simonabelciug8527 Suffice it to say, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are hardly considered "the best", and we've had some truly monstrous women ruling nations all across history.

[@sumairshirazi]

​@@simonabelciug8527 they came into power thanks to men

[@charlotterhodes4858]

Please do Queen Anne of Great Britain! She has been one of the most forgotten of Queens which is ridiculous if you take a good look at what she actually did during her reign. And don't be fooled by how she is depicted in 'The Favourite'.

[@--enyo--]

I’d really like this as well!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:15 - Chapter 1 - A man's world 5:10 - Chapter 2 - The fight for survival 8:15 - Chapter 3 - Turning the tide 11:20 - Chapter 4 - The reform 15:10 - Chapter 5 - Intolerance & violence 18:10 - Chapter 6 - All in the family 21:00 - Chapter 7 - A painful end

[@lllPlatinumlll]

"Frederick the Crappy", I enjoyed a smirk of genuine amusement. Thanks.

[@remomojapelo1840]

''Set the world record for disappointing her parents'' Laugh-crying intensities

[@risannd]

*cries in Asian*

[@--enyo--]

Meanwhile my mum wanted another girl so bad she had another six kids after me until she finally got one. Probably for the best, I’m not a great daughter.

[@LjuboCupic1912]

@@--enyo-- wait, so you have seven younger siblings? That must be a nightmare, I can barely deal with one.

[@pjd6977]

Can't even win at failing

[@Geraduss]

When he recounted all the nations who were under the Habsburg rule at the begining the stated ALL but Slovenia, and as a Sloven, that hurts.

[@mammuchan8923]

This is what makes a great Biographics story - someone who is both wonderful and terrible at the same time

[@--enyo--]

For sure

[@stephjovi]

What's a nice timing to upload this on Austria s national holiday!

[@zoos_lol4106]

it might have been planned, but if not awesome coincidence indeed!

[@stephjovi]

@@zoos_lol4106 yes that's possible. Simon lives in the neighbourhood after all his wife's ancestors were Maria Theresa's subjects

[@zsoltsandor3814]

Cheers from Budapest!

[@bluestrife28]

I love how this channel opens up new doors I never knew of. Now I wanna know about María Cristina who was obviously her favorite and I never knew about her. Arguably tho....Maria Antonia would sadly be her most famous child I think though. It’s a different take but the Sofia Coppola movie Marie Antoinette was really good, it shows the stagnant routine of Royal life and the sad little girl forced to be a Queen, Kirsten Dunst was amazing it’s a role she was born to play, and Marianne Faithful makes a cameo as María Teresa (edit - and the letters thing shows up too she has to keep reading orders from her mother to do what she must as Queen, there’s a beautiful scene where Kirsten reads the letter and looks at the mirror and just fights back tears and accepts her fate)

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Pretty sad her daughter got beheaded during the French revolution, Even the might of the habsburgs could not prevent that

[@honda-akari]

Marie Antoinette was a good queen

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@The Infidel Relax

[@hattorihaso2579]

Power of the people bruh

[@alo5301]

She became French when she entered France

[@dillantaylor6680]

@@honda-akari lol no

[@BrainsApplied]

In 200 years, they'll make videos about the Digital Whistler Empire

[@dudepool7530]

Using a holographic Simon as the narrator. Eta's in the background talking about the harmful effects of 500g lmao

[@Alexwhatisit]

I'm waiting for The Right Opinion video about his dark side and love of all things lex luthor levels of evil.

[@dudepool7530]

@@Alexwhatisit that's Kyle Hill ya goober. Allegedly.

[@sherirobinson5112]

😂

[@bruceperry784]

@@dudepool7530 yyyyyyujh=u

[@chrisoleary9876]

I stayed at an Inn in the Innsbruck suburb of Götzens (near Birgitz) where Maria Theresa was rumored to have stayed for a short time. The owners were very proud of the legend.

[@bradley163]

She was a badass! I had no idea of her existence before watching, so this is just astonishing.

[@ChibiProwl]

Lindsay Holiday has a video of her, and her children, along with other royals. She also has videos of the history of childbirth and birth control. Look her up!😎

[@bradley163]

@@ChibiProwl omg thank you so much for recommending her channel! This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for!

[@ChibiProwl]

@@bradley163 You’re welcome!😎

[@TheAustrianAnimations87]

Well, as an Austrian Maria Theresia was the first monarch I ever knew (when I was an elementary school student a long time ago), because of school of course.

[@janinelemonides3705]

Simon I love your channel!! They are not only informative but can be remarkably relaxing (depending on the subject of course). Your TopTenz channel is also the same. I am amazed at how you are able to put out so much content on all your channels so often. You are a pleasant distraction during this pandemic. You helped me while I was in the hospital with covid19. Thank you for all your hard work, I just wanted you to know that what do makes a difference (at least in my life). Take care and keep safe.

[@vapidrabbit198]

how is it that habsburg women always looked like super models, but the men always looked like circus freaks? was the habsburg chin only resesive for males?

[@carolynandrade2648]

no, the women get it but testosterone helps the growth so ...

[@eowyn-faramir-reads]

Nah it was simply the fact they married hot women from outside the family, at least for a while.

[@FelineStorm]

And also, many portraits were designed to flatter the sitter, especially if they were noble or on the marriage market or both.

[@carolynandrade2648]

@@FelineStorm you made me think of a John James Audubon quote. something along the line of "you gave me a potato and expected me to paint a peach" so he moved on to birds

[@Yakarash]

We got the habsburg chin - thanks to a great great great grandmother who was a maid to some duke. It is noticeable, but we only got the dimple, not so much the size, wich was caused by inbreeding.

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

Oooooh! Could you do a biography on England’s George the 3rd’s wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz? She might be pretty interesting, given the controversy of her heritage!

[@sixeyesheavens7]

i agree with this one! queen charlotte was such an intriguing character in history!

[@kellyrobinson6663]

Yes I agree, this would be a very interesting one I'd like to see biographics do.

[@anneartis565]

Excellent suggestion.

[@Matteus2109]

The one people think was part African?

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

@@Matteus2109 that’s what the writer and Simon can confirm, deny, or leave a mystery.... Though, her life is so much bigger than only her parentage!

[@cohenjordan5057]

These Habsburgs man- got their chin in everything. (I’d say nose but the chin arrives earlier wherever they go 😂)

[@Kerriangel]

“Mummy says it’s a strong chin for a strong boy!” Referring to the wrong Habsburg but 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@rockgod6180]

You made me spit out my drink 😂

[@gigglyme2001]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jamellfoster6029]

LMBO

[@iragriffen5859]

LMCO

[@MynameisInigoMontoya4]

Can't get enough of these videos. I love the unbiased research.

[@mrsnufflegums]

idk about "most influential empresses" like no denying that but she's one of the most influential monarchs in history, up there with Charles V, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and II, Queen Victoria, Tokugawa Iyeasu, Emperor Meiji, Emperor Hirohito, and even William the Conquerer. idk she's just super important to how europe was shaped in the 18th century.

[@archivesoffantasy5560]

Henry II had a hand in developed the English common law system that governs a chunk of the world today. And even if his part in its overall development was small, it’s still such a big thing that it ends up making him pretty influential too

[@artpeoplecoolbeans6009]

I started your channel for school work and now I'm binge-watching for fun. I've learned so much! Thank you for creating these videos!

[@kellyrobinson6663]

That was a bloody brilliant video, I very much enjoyed learning about Empress Maria Teresa, thank you so much ☺️

[@marialana3502]

Just a small correction. She was never Empress.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Ideas for videos: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia Stibor, Voivode of Transylvania

[@TechSupport900]

*Charles V

[@daygoncornhole2395]

Is there a video on sigmund freud ?

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@daygoncornhole2395 Not really

[@daygoncornhole2395]

@@TihetrisWeathersby then it's a good idea for a video 🙂

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Abraham Lincoln. The great Emancipator.

[@cpegg5840]

Frederick the Great: “Hey Maria Theresa, can I have Silesia? I’ll let you be Kaiser if you do” Maria: “LoL no” Frederick: “Last chance...” Maria: “I’m allied with all the major powers of Europe; what you gonna do? Invade?? Frederick:

[@Outlaw8908]

Yep.

[@TacitusSempronius]

In fairness, nobody believed back then that the young king of a second rate, relatively poor country without mayor allies would challenge mighty Austria.

[@MaiNguyen-ck4br]

Her father left a weak empire for her when he is dead,he makes some unwise decision during his reign which makes the empire being a mess his daughter has to fix it

[@BazzyBaka]

Fredrick: Aaaand I took that personally

[@drevenypribor6144]

My suggestions for next biographies: Sir Nicholas Winton Nicolas Flamel Akhenaten Madame Voisin Cesare Borgia D B Cooper

[@studogable]

Nicholas Flamel would be damned interesting. DB Cooper has been done. The sad truth is that he absolutely did not walk out of that forest with any of the money. None of the bills ever made it back to the Federal Reserve (as all paper money eventually does, stolen or no). He either died in the jump or lost the money along the way.

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

GUYS. Today is Austria's national holiday. You uploaded a video dedicated to one of the best known figures in Austria on the national holiday. You absolute madlads, I love you :-*

[@zsoltsandor3814]

Cheers from Hungary to you, our "Schwager".

[@marianpizeno8511]

Wow... My name is Marian Theresa... Is this where my parents got my name.

[@sandybarnes887]

That or Mother Theresa

[@marianpizeno8511]

@@sandybarnes887 growing up I always associated my name with Mother Teresa... I was so sad when she passed. 😭💗

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

I named my daughter after a saint, and i'm not even Catholic! Just thought it sounded pretty 🤣

[@JagmasterGeneral12374]

@@TotallyNotRedneckYall yeah I'm naming my first born after a saint

[@felipedeodonoju3953]

@@marianpizeno8511 she was a fake a** women, like I feel like the Church shouldn’t have canonized her.

[@FieldMarshalYT]

One of the most underlooked figures in history.

[@craniusdominus8234]

Maria Theresa couldnt possibly beat the record for disappointing her parents, considering Henry the VIIIth had lived before her.

[@juliadagnall5816]

Yes, but good old Henry eventually got his obligatory boy (by changing the religion of his entire country and taking ‘as long as we both shall live’ a little tooo literally), but since his son only reigned for about a minute and a half it was hardly worth the effort

[@LjuboCupic1912]

@@juliadagnall5816 Good ol’ Lizzy turned out to be a hidden gem in that aspect, though.

[@folarinalabi3250]

So she is, in a way, the queen Victoria of the 18th Century

[@tereziamarkova2822]

Well, queen Victoria was an icon, but also largely a figurehead, so from a historical point of view I'd say Maria Theresa was even more important.

[@drea7295]

She is a distant relative of Queen Victoria

[@LjuboCupic1912]

@@tereziamarkova2822 Victoria was not a figurehead. She was officially a constitutional monarch, but behind the scenes, she tried to meddle in government policy quite a lot.

[@Sarah-fp9oc]

Finally, yes. I've been waiting for this.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

I'm still waiting for mine.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

@@AbrahamLincoln4 Ha! Sucker. Even I got one.

[@linny9842]

Same. I have been waiting for this

[@trj1442]

Abolished the tax exempt status of churches, she's definitely my got vote.

[@opypotamus6452]

You wouldn’t likely have had a vote.

[@mdohkar]

I honestly can’t believe I knew nothing of her until this video, I’m astonished and amazed.

[@justinlloyd8547]

The way you say 'empire' is just the best!

[@kelerews]

every time I learn one of these stories about monarchs, explendid job by the way, I understand more and more the French revolution

[@cassandraralph5906]

I loved this video, most interesting and educational video! I learned a lot about Teresa Maria today! Thank you!

[@shawnbeckett1370]

Awesome, excellent info and a fast talker. Will explore your channel

[@goldentaco4970]

What about Queen Isabelle of Spain? She had power centuries before this lady.

[@bentufte7774]

Some video ideas: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tenzin Gyatso, Dred Scott, Sitting Bull, Freddie Mercury, Raymond Spruance, Karl Donitz, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ludwig van Beethoven, W.A. Mozart, Ignacy Paderewski, Arthur Rubinstein, Marlon Brando, Katherine Hepburn, and the Bronte family.

[@DarthPlato]

Bader Ginsberg would be good--especially show the part where she denounces the very idea of increasing the SCOTUS past nine judges.

[@--enyo--]

Seconding especially Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

[@FelineStorm]

Rip RBG...adding my vote!

[@LUISA-rj8oe]

She was a great Queen, a great leader, a great wife, a great mother! I live in Milan and I love hertz memory.

[@quaggaokapibara3507]

Ideas:Maria feodorovna(mother of the last tsar) and Charles V(United Spain and Austria)

[@cherryblossom2494]

Yes, I would love to know about Maria Feodorovna (Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and Charles V

[@johnbeastbrook8621]

Love the videos and the work you doing! Especially the Roman biographies, please do one about Augustus ty

[@mariefire1824]

I read Maria theresa when she was 25 she was upset because she couldn't get on her horse to go to war because of her huge baby bump

[@thunderbird1921]

Wow. Kind of reminds me how Catherine the Great was so passionate about the Russian military that she sometimes put a uniform coat over her dress and accompanied her armies.

[@sumairshirazi]

What's there ti be upset she wasn't gonna fight anyway

[@Reveal_City]

Happy Austrian national day everyone!

[@ewestner]

"Determined to live up to his future nickname." Lol.

[@stephanierempel4360]

Biographics! Would it be possible to include some more music history on your channel? I would love episodes on Hildegard of Bingen (her letters to the pope are especially intriguing), Hindemith ( his flute sonata has the rigid rhythms of the oppressive Nazi regime marching over his office in Berlin), Amy Beach ( remarkable American female composer), and Charles Ives. I would love some more episodes on musical figures.

[@--enyo--]

Nice!!! I’ve been wanting this one!!! I have some requests: - Anne of Great Britain - Sir Douglas Mawson - Joanna of Castile

[@katerinadlouha2196]

as a Czech follower im voting for Wenceslas IV, King of Bohemia to be next

[@Biographics]

It's not Wenceslas, but we do have a gentleman coming up Wednesday that I think you might have an interest in...

[@zsoltsandor3814]

@@Biographics there's a Habsburg that I find very intriguing, and who has strong ties with Prague: Rudolf II, aka the Alchemist Emperor.

[@slavwithanak6195]

Long live T.G Masaryk!!!🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

[@claireflower6575]

Wow, finally! Thank you👍🏻🙏🏻😘

[@ThePlaceCannel]

Did Biographics do an episode on Alfonso XIII of Spain? He had a pretty wild life and apparently was a bit of a jerk, it would be neat to learn more about them

[@TheJaviferrol]

Frederick the Great: Hey, can i have Silesia; i will name you Kaiser? - Hahahaha I have alliances with all major European powers; what are you gonna do? - DROP IT

[@kfraser3783]

My grandson was great

[@littlesylveon8891]

MLG Soviet Prussian?

[@juliohenrique8546]

" Dooo dooo dooo dooo do do do do do 🎼🎶🎵 "

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

So in short she used her daughters as political pr tools, she managed a great empire, religious suppression, issued a golden age of Enlightenment.

[@folarinalabi3250]

Sounds like queen Victoria in a way (the marriages part)

[@barbarak2836]

@@folarinalabi3250 That was pretty much every monarch, ever, male or female. Princesses only existed to marry for political advantage.

[@barbarak2836]

@Terminator 7250 Very true.

[@DarthPlato]

It was tribal societies in those days, not equality under the law. The family was paramount. For monarchs, the family was wedded to the State; combined with duty ethics, you see how marriage alliances worked. It satisfied duty to family and State--furthering both. This was true for princes also, but princesses were the ones that moved to their spouses family. An exception for princes were the ones that were reared with the expectation of being sent to Rome, acquire a spot in the Curia, and represent the family's interests there.

[@DarthPlato]

Alternatively, the Ottoman Turks saw the marriage alliance system in Europe as something they could do without. So the sultans didn't marry, and instead the family propagated through the harem. Sultan daughters were expected to marry viziers in the divan.

[@averagedev7768]

In Serbia, as soon as you cross the Danube and enter Vojvodina you can imedialtly see the infrastructure and changes she made. Streets are 90deg and houses all have a long lawn in front of street, bedrooms all look opposite of the street etc. Schooling is different in that part of the country as well

[@marlog3]

Seen how he smiled when he said education was taken out of the hands of the church 😂

[@gunsol900]

@Terminator 7250 At the very least, no worse.

[@DarthPlato]

It's not a simple issue, really. The least one could do is not be snarky about it.

[@charlieryan1736]

Thanks for another interesting and informative video

[@brettlarch8050]

“The less you speak the better.” What a great parent. (Sarcasm)

[@Someone-jz5pl]

A video about skanderbeg would be a good one,he along with vlad were feared by the ottomans.

[@JukeboxZeton]

We've learned a lot about her during primary and high school (I'm from Croatia), but this finally pictured her as whole person. Thank you, I needed to see this. :) Have you made video about Joseph II? 🤔

[@viktoriaj.5973]

I just started the video while my boyfriend is playing XCOM2. He hears Simon's voice and just whispers: Hi, Simon. LMAO

[@josievaccaro]

How all the contradictions are laid out, good and bad, and human makes for an amazing script and video! Bravo 👏🏽 As mentioned in the script had it not been for her religious intolerance, she was badass for the times! I was astounded...

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

We In Croatia Were Than Part Of The Austrian Empire, And A Very Nice Video.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Who would have known.

[@Geraduss]

And the whole of Slovenia but he didn't mention it, go figures.

[@urska4769]

@@Geraduss Slovenia is never mentioned in these kinds of videos. I guess we just aren't important enough.

[@belisarius6949]

@@urska4769 We love Slovenia ♡ Greetings from Austria.

[@urska4769]

@@belisarius6949 hi, neighbor ❤️❤️

[@MikeTXBC]

It's pretty common for progressives to become conservatives as they age. Part of it is fear and unfamiliarity with new ideas, trends, etc., but it's also a feeling of ingratitude, as if these new (often reform-heavy) ideas are direct attacks on the once-progressive ideas held by this aging demographic. To be fair, there is some truth to this, but much of it is simply building onto what was done before, and not intended as a slight in any shape or form. And it's not just geriatric people who feel this way, although often the elderly are more vocal about it. Depending on the issue and ideas being presented, people who're in their 30s and 40s sometimes feel this way as well. I'm currently 41 and there are times I can feel myself wanting to react disdain for progressive ideas, even if I don't necessarily disagree with these ideas at their core.

[@kriogyal9181]

She reminds me of Queen Victoria. I wonder if Queen Victoria was influenced by her, considering that they have some similarities in how they approached life and leadership.

[@BLARG09]

This was a great video!

[@easternlights3155]

Maria Theresa was so badass that she is the only Habsburg ruler that today's czechs remember fondly.

[@mooomaa.n.5800]

Great vid! Would've loved to hear about her contentious relationship with Sissi.

[@jojospice3353]

Maria Theresa was a very longtime dead when empress Sissi was born.

[@mooomaa.n.5800]

@@jojospice3353 Whoopsie. Wrong Austrian empress. I stand corrected lol.

[@htoodoh5770]

13:36 Saw the smirk. While we laughed, we should remember the Catholic Church throughout the medieval history was patron of the sciences.

[@BxLiteKid]

Can you do a video on Peter the Great's daughter Empress Elizabeth, Czarina of Russia 🇷🇺

[@jeffbuck2111]

Could you do an episode on Fredrick the great? You mentioned him a lot as sort of her biggest opponent, in military and reforms

[@suzannebelanus9061]

Thank you for doing more biographies on women!

[@camojones8952]

I thought this said "The Might of the Hamburgers" and now I'm thoroughly disappointed

[@Codemned]

Read this is is really interesting. Maria Theresia had a doctor from the Netherlands his name was Van Swieten. Back in the day horror storys about so called "Wiedergänger which are like vampires" came from Romania to Vienna. People were digging out the dead, burned them and threw their ashes into rivers. Because they thougt that they awake at night and eat the living. Maria wanted to end this superstition and sent Van Swieten into the villages to investigate. He concluded: Dead people don't bite and the didn't rot beause it was winter so it is just a hoax. Therefore she implemented hard punishments for digging out the dead in the whole empire. Over a century later Bram Stoker read about it. He created a doctor from the Netherlands who investigated in Romania.....you all know him as VAN HELLSING. Follow me on Instagram "WiensGeschichten".

[@11mousa]

one of the most interesting annecdotes: After F-S died, she kept on visiting him almost daily at the "Kapuzinergruft". In her later, fatter years, she could not walk down (let alone up) the stairs anymore, so they installed kind of an elevator for her. A few weeks before she died, when they where lifting her up, one rope tore and she almost fell to her death. When they safed her, she said: "That is a sign. The grave does not want to give me away anymore". This was her last visit to Franz Stephan alive.

[@megancwrtycadno]

A very succinct presentation

[@cynthiasimpson931]

A suggestion for a Biographics subject: Delia Bacon. She was a friend of Sarah Winchester of Winchester Mystery House fame, and is a fascinating person in her own right. She was a well-known lecturer and writer during her time.

[@dudepool7530]

I just had a great idea for a subject: Koko the gorilla! She was smart, funny, and very personable. Her message to the world, though left unheeded, proved to the world that we aren't the only ones who can understand our stupidity. Plus, I mean, she was the first creature outside of our own species we could properly communicate with, that's just fucking amazing!

[@pedroleuenberger4270]

It would be nice to see a video about Fredrick the great

[@amb163]

She was a very complicated person, that's for sure. The good she did was for her own benefit, though... I'm erring on the side of her not being a person I would have wanted to meet.

[@htoodoh5770]

Why?

[@rami_ungar_writer]

I hope you guys do someone spooky/creepy/etc. for Halloween by the end of the week.

[@imperialprimarch4442]

Honestly I'd like to see one on Frederick the Great of prussia because why not

[@greenneerg123]

She founded my high school. It hasn't stopped operating at all and is older than the USA's declaration of independence by 30 years. The buildings have changed but the old one is a music school now and the current one was built before ww1.

[@sallyintucson]

Thank you for another informative video! BTW your beard looks much better now than when it reached your collarbone.

[@tiadiad]

I would like to put in a request. The Kwantung army, and specifically it’s demise. It’s an interesting story, I think.

[@Foxkitten86]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Overconfidence? No just confidence and that shows how delusional it was and Maria Therese cleverly outsmarted them.

[@Biyoing]

Great upload Simon

[@Godzilla52]

"She Won' Frederick The Great: "Not so fast there"

[@bluestrife28]

Loving that you guys are covering all the strong women now!!!!!

[@teacuptoe2143]

13:34 that side eye game is strong

[@diannaroeder9661]

Remarkable story, well done!!

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

Simon could you do a biographics on Jayne Mansfield? Her story is pretty interesting and fairly sad

[@gloryB-3]

Huh?

[@me0101001000]

Ah yes, the mighty Habsburgs, as opposed to the mediocre Hapsburgs

[@aikikaname6508]

Simon: Marie Theresa set a world record in disappointing their parents Me: challenge accepted

[@ezerionchannel5748]

Please have a biographics on Dr.Jose Rizal , the national hero of Philippines.