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@marceloaleixo5404 жыл бұрын
Make one video about J Edgar Hoover please Hugs from Brazil
@tysonclark59744 жыл бұрын
Probably regrets having kids.
@kidofflint88124 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on grand duchess Olga nikolaevna Romanov
@3iz.184 жыл бұрын
Do king Faisal of Saudi Arabia
@christinadavison35584 жыл бұрын
Seriously why is the top tenz gone? It's all been taken down. Very dissapointed!
@reconsoldier1354 жыл бұрын
I finally understand why Vanderbilt University’s mascot is a Commodore despite it being in landlocked Tennessee
@MrWizeazz4 жыл бұрын
It’s so weird to think about the fact that Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt.
@Hajduk-Kralj4 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Aisel really? FFS
@PalmelaHanderson4 жыл бұрын
@Nesper His mother was a Vanderbilt heiress. She inherited something to the tune of $35 million in today's money.
@richardtaylor63414 жыл бұрын
He had a lot of kids, and only one of them ended up with "generational wealth", so you might be surprised by who and how numerous his descendants are...
@migmo31264 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Cornelius would have thrown "Sweet Pea" off his ship!
@JLFAN20094 жыл бұрын
@Nesper He's a Vanderbilt by BLOOD, but not by name. If he were a citizen of a Spanish speaking country, he would also be a Vanderbilt by name.
@notyou69504 жыл бұрын
His grandson built the Biltmore Estate in Asheville NC and it is still in the hands of the descendants. The neat fact of its existence is that the company that runs it pays no taxes to the feds in exchange for the land that the Pisgha National Forest that it used to own.
@ethanramos44414 жыл бұрын
“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” Cornelius Vanderbilt
@taseenalrashid41683 жыл бұрын
'learned education' nice quote.
@wnalikka3 жыл бұрын
He was right though.
@loydkline46862 жыл бұрын
Smarter than a school teacher
@Tavat Жыл бұрын
@@loydkline4686 Without school teachers, we wouldn’t have a viable educated populace to compete globally. With the Vanderbilts, we wouldn’t have corporate monopolies and the bought Congress we have today. Conservatives have no business litigating intelligence.
@ignitionfrn22234 жыл бұрын
1:15 - Chapter 1 - Early years 6:10 - Chapter 2 - The birth of an empire 8:20 - Chapter 3 - Going into nicaragua 11:15 - Mid roll ads 12:45 - Chapter 4 - The war of the commodores 16:50 - Chapter 5 - From ships to trains
@joecoastie994 жыл бұрын
If you ever find yourself in western North Carolina visit the Biltmore estate if you feel like feeling poor. That “house” is ridiculous
@billy11684 жыл бұрын
Joe Coastie Is that where Vanderbilt lived?
@momalley814 жыл бұрын
@@billy1168 no, his grandson built the estate as a summer home.
@albertoe87404 жыл бұрын
Joe Coastie I used to work there, the opulence of that "summer house" never seized to impress me.
@kes96124 жыл бұрын
Something everyone should see at least once in their lives. Here in NC it is usually a fieldtrip around middle school age but i have noticed that my daughter's school hasnt had many trips there as of late (before covid-19). To really appreciate it i think it needs to be a highschool fieldtrip, as when we went in 6th grade we really couldnt appreciate its opulence for the era it was built and couldnt tell you one fact about it. Now in my older age i find myself more interested in this family and their dynasty. Never knew the actor Timothy Olyphant was a descendant of them until recently....the more you know😜
@JohnSmith-mn4wf4 жыл бұрын
It is beautiful. It is art. It is a master piece.
@jacobdrum4 жыл бұрын
Would love some follow ups on these old families, like how the Vanderbilts became the Whitneys, etc, and the wealth lasts into the present day.
@bluetextbooks4 жыл бұрын
I second this sentiment. Follow the money.
@jlongino51823 Жыл бұрын
They’re now pretty much broke.
@michaelandbrytanyjordan75734 жыл бұрын
So working hard, being reliable, investing in your business, and charging less than others was succesful back then. I wonder what happened.
@Jack-he8jv4 жыл бұрын
immortal corporations
@cdeschrevel53413 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-he8jv Vanderbilt as a brandname(and their origin family) still excist. So being “an immortal(autocorrect tried to change it to immoral lol!) corporate in itself doesn’t persé create the opposite of what Cornelis did.
@kaseythornton81553 жыл бұрын
Reagan.
@benno2919803 жыл бұрын
@@kaseythornton8155 what?! Ronald Reagan is a saint. You're insane.
@sebastianblackfyre3 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-he8jv The third and fourth generation of the Vanderbilt were relatively weak and started to shift most of their time into partying and eventually made them bankrupt.
@southernbellechef3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this educational piece. I love the nitty gritty details of his struggles. Also the fact he didn’t become the wealthiest man in America til he was in his 70s. You only hear that he got into Transportation and became a millionaire. Like it was overnight. When this proves it takes time and a lot of hard work to get to this status
@Bloombaby993 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I'm glad they mentioned that.
@patrickperalta592 жыл бұрын
southernbellechef your right no matter the bussines your in it takes a lot of hard work to even get to the status of being a millionaire. as you pointed out it doesn't happen over night.
@choughed30724 жыл бұрын
His holiday cost $500,000 in 1853 which is $16,797,272.73 in today's money (according to Google)
@archaichermit35663 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. My mom grew up in Tennessee and Vandy was one of the schools she wanted me to go too once I graduated hs. Thanks for sharing his history
@mrwarr4 жыл бұрын
My fiancée lives right by the railway (now semi-operating) in Cranbury, NJ. I went to college (or university for non-Americans) on one of the Vanderbilt estates, that of Florence Adele Vanderbilt. While I’m at it, I currently live on land that once a part of one of J. D. Rockefeller’s hunting estates. Land he ultimately sold to the county (most of which is currently a park). Those robber barons really shaped the US in ways that affect many of us daily more than a century later. Good video as usual.
@aaaargl4 жыл бұрын
19:35 i bet he was starting to sell off his stuff in the 1850s not the 1950s
@adozer68484 жыл бұрын
Lol I caught that too.
@mrwarr4 жыл бұрын
Lol considering he was long dead…
@oleeoleeoo26104 жыл бұрын
OOPS😉
@stevemorris68554 жыл бұрын
Good old Simon ploughs on through every typo..
@michaeljohnson46134 жыл бұрын
Had to play it back to make sure I wasn't crazy
@AbrahamLincoln44 жыл бұрын
Still haven't done a biography about me.
@diamondequallo12044 жыл бұрын
Don't worry abe. You'll get yours, someday.
@PTUnlimited4 жыл бұрын
Abe!!! My man!!! Don’t worry bro you will get yours someday!! It’s not like you will be going anywhere😉
@oilersridersbluejays4 жыл бұрын
I know. I'm still waiting as well.
@ericmaher47564 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Like Simon can’t wait to cross that mine field of ignorant loud mouths.
@john-paulsilke8934 жыл бұрын
Abraham Lincoln don’t worry Simon will take a shot at it soon enough. This time it shouldn’t hurt so much.
@Lady_Chalk4 жыл бұрын
If you’d ever want to visit the historic Biltmore House, I suggest spending the extra money for their Holidays displays. I cried, it was so beautiful.
@beginnereasy2 жыл бұрын
13:33 okay the story of Vanderbilt's first vacation has to be the funniest thing in the world 😂
@gaminawulfsdottir32534 жыл бұрын
A good example of how having a work ethic doesn't necessarily mean being ethical.
@james-us3wy3 жыл бұрын
you have a great channel keep up the great work
@elijahhenderson95414 жыл бұрын
I second that motion on Woodhull! Would definitely be a cool video!
@BrainsApplied4 жыл бұрын
*Last time I was this early, Simon still had hair*
@kingjellybean97954 жыл бұрын
He still has hair, it just migrated to his face like geese in the winter
@LtColShingSides4 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the terrifying days of baby faced Simon.
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
He uses Dollar Shave😀
@SHAKA384 жыл бұрын
😆🤣😅
@beemail69834 жыл бұрын
His hair fell out and landed on his face
@jeffkadlec82642 жыл бұрын
I was just at the Vanderbilt Museum on Long Island. It's crazy how many sea creature specimens he collected!!
@NDTexan4 жыл бұрын
@19:45... The Confederate Navy never dominated the seas. given their beginnings they did a pretty solid job but they never could break the blockade completely and because of their naval inferiority their fleet operations were primarily centered around Port protection whereas the actual seas were dominated by the Union. Most of their attempts at actual ironclad cruisers were confiscated and the bulk of their ironclads numbered just over thirty with most of them being destroyed or scuttled or captured well before the actual surrender of the CSA. And they were all close range port defense. Their smaller gunboats were all used for blockade running. They never got dominance on the seas or really even the intercoastal waterways.
@kennbiggs93114 жыл бұрын
Thank you Kevin! You said it much better than I could have.
@texasforever78874 жыл бұрын
I was just about to do the same but I believe you said it
@DERP_Squad4 жыл бұрын
Also the armour on their ironclads was mostly improvised, such as a couple of layers of interlocked railway rails which were considerably less effective than single thickness armour that the union's industrial base was able to produce.
@eurodoc63434 жыл бұрын
You beat me to it. Well said.
@CAMSLAYER134 жыл бұрын
Yea, whoever does the research for these doesn't do a very good job. They once said the nazi ss stood for secret service
@DT-sb9sv4 жыл бұрын
William Walker needs a Biographic on his own.
@DonVinny4 жыл бұрын
true
@ScottCole-sb8fy7 ай бұрын
This man was courageous, competitive, disciplined, driven and insanely hard working. Very admirable... Today's society is gutless, lazy, unmotivated, constantly complaining and weak. Huge contrast.
@dscharlesworth14 жыл бұрын
The Vanderbilt family would make for an interesting series(if done right).
@beginnereasy2 жыл бұрын
Life doesn't care about right or wrong, life doesn't care about good or evil, and life doesn't care how it feels... Life is about success and what goes on. All of us here are the descendants of a literally unbroken line of winners. You can tell me what qualities we have.
@benjaminbrogan92334 жыл бұрын
Simon! You're back! Good to see you...
@danischeel48464 жыл бұрын
I love this era! So fascinating! How about jp Morgan or the astors?
@crisp84124 жыл бұрын
lol they run the world, they arent great either. they are smart and know how to save this planet. they take genochrome so they live longer which is why mark zuckerburg looks like a lizard. the queen also is taking this. they are soo rich the central bank is using candidates as puppets.
@goodheavens54404 жыл бұрын
@@crisp8412 if you look close enough when you pour a glass of Tropicana orange juice you can see the circuit boards of a television. Diamonds aren't worth the money modern society has priced them. Ancient man was aware of these anomalies. That is why turquoise and alabaster are used in the manufacturing of things like Coca Cola and baby formula.
@corgeousgeorge4 жыл бұрын
Side note: why would a self made oligarch from Staten Island New York want to have a University in his name in Tennessee? There has to be some story behind that. Maybe Simon can do a biographic or a buildinggraphic on Vanderbilt University?
@L_Jan_Turner4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Thank you.
@Duececoupe4 жыл бұрын
Now, that's how I like it....a notification about Geographics, Biographics, TopTenz and VisualPolitik EN videos in one go! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🍻
@Jim-ie6uf4 жыл бұрын
Excellent as always
@paulinotou4 жыл бұрын
Ever since I watched the "Men who Built America", I've become very fascinated by these capitalists.
@johnwilliams0293 жыл бұрын
Yes, they are motivation on the highest level.
@JEANSDEMARCO3 жыл бұрын
@@johnwilliams029 Yeah, check out W.A. Clark, and his daughter in the book "Empty Mansions"!! Quite a story, and a fascinating read! Also, for a really great read, John Jacob Astor's story in the book "Astoria" is almost hard to believe, and quite an adventure!! A
@johnwilliams0293 жыл бұрын
@@JEANSDEMARCO i will! Thanks for letting me know! Greatingsss from The Netherlands
@JEANSDEMARCO3 жыл бұрын
@@johnwilliams029 You are welcome Mark! At 30 yrs old I knew nothing about anything, so I started reading as much as I could, and at 79 yrs old, I'm still at it!! lol😀
@johnwilliams0293 жыл бұрын
@@JEANSDEMARCOrespect for that! God bless you!
@UmVtCg4 жыл бұрын
Ah, "De Bilt" such a nice town near Utrecht, the Netherlands.
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Enschede 1992 and 2006.
@peterreiss59374 жыл бұрын
Interesting how the narrator refers to price cutting at "stealing". I thought that price cutting is competition. If by robber baron you mean stealing from the monopolist in the form of lower prices, and thereby benefiting consumers, then celebrate the robber barons. On some of his routes Vanderbilt charged nothing! He made money by selling food and incidentals during the trip. Rockefeller was the all time greatest robber baron. The price of a gallon of gasoline plunged by 95%. The same for Carnegie and his steel. In addition to price cutting Carnegie sold a superior product. None of the bridges built with Carnegie steel failed, which was not an infrequent occurance at the time. Celebrate the robber barons!
@marcpeterson10924 жыл бұрын
The price cutting was only temporary. Once he had a monopoly he could jack the rates sky high. That's why monopolies are illegal. Anti free market.
@BTScriviner2 жыл бұрын
"Robber baron" refers to how they exploited workers, getting rich on their misery by underpaying them, subjecting them to unsafe working conditions, and discarding them once they were injured.
@akarpoff13222 жыл бұрын
@@BTScriviner compare it to the harshness of farm labour. At that time people literally fled agrarian parts of Poland to move to the UK or to grab factory jobs in the USA. Nobody forced the workers to work for Rockefellers and Carnegies. They did it voluntarily, because although tough by our standards these jobs were the best of choice that these people possessed. Capitalist countries, alas where workers were "exploited" by "robber barons" were the ones which were propelled into prosperity and the ones with higher life quality for the people- more literate people in England than Russia or Italy for example in the begging of the 20th century, as Britain was one of the first nation to attempt a capitalist experiment. "Exploitation" is the wrong term which is ironically was used by the communists- which threw people into labour camps and shot them as well as starved tens of millions of people in USSR alone. "Uplifting" would be more accurate to describe their deeds, whose actions both in providing jobs and philanthropy were significant. For instance Rockefeller almost eliminated yellow fever in western hemisphere. Nor were they "underpaying" their workers. Price in economics (be it the price of labour- which is among resources and factors of production) serves as a measure of the value of a resource, a price for an abundant resource is usually smaller and- not do to a more generous producer at all but to its abundance and due to competition to sell it. Due to the abundance of cheap labour, it obviously was worth less, as workers facing competition from other workers agreed to sell their labour for less. And not due to a "robber baron" at all but due to a logical economic reality. As for the working conditions, they improved over time, in Britain for instance this process began and excelled before a more representative government was installed. Similarly worker wages will inevitably increase if there is less workforce available- and not at all do to Saint Augustines, but due to their skills possibly increasing in value.
@cassandraralph59063 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and educational video!
@katemaloney42964 жыл бұрын
Now that you've featured the Commodore, you MUST continue with Gloria Vanderbilt; then the Astors; followed by the Gettys. Please, oh please, oh please!!!
@MrWizeazz4 жыл бұрын
Kate Maloney Kinda weird that she is Anderson Cooper’s mother.
@jamesfracasse81784 жыл бұрын
Who are the Getty family?
@supermodelwannabe3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesfracasse8178 google is free
@jamesfracasse81783 жыл бұрын
@@supermodelwannabe no I'm asking you about it not Google it
@marceloaleixo5404 жыл бұрын
Please, a video about J. Edgar Hoover or Dick Cheney Hugs from Brazil
@myownboss14 жыл бұрын
J. Edgar Hoover and ‘dick’ in the same sentence... i see what you did there Marcelo!
@MrWizeazz4 жыл бұрын
Marcelo Aleixo I’m pretty sure he’s already done a video on Hoover though.
@marceloaleixo5404 жыл бұрын
@@myownboss1 this is clyde tolson's business kkkkkkkkk
@amandashaheen74794 жыл бұрын
During the height of industry, Pittsburgh had more millionaires than New York City. Please do a video on Pgh during the 'Golden Age'. Maybe compare to today
@ahernandez504 жыл бұрын
Great video as always. Please make a video about William Walker, the story of that guy is amazing.
@BrettonFerguson4 жыл бұрын
He conquered Baja California. I bet he picked the location from a map and didn't know it was a desert with not much there. It's a desert with little population aside from some fishermen. "He ran out of supplies." If he was successful, he would have been running out of supplies for decades until he died of old age.
@justincredible95564 жыл бұрын
Yes John f Kennedy had an affair with Marilyn Monroe and this is brought to you by square space 😏
@rami_ungar_writer4 жыл бұрын
Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Upton Sinclair 3. Jack London 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen
@robbybritt13513 жыл бұрын
Simon has all those already
@jeffbonekemper81633 жыл бұрын
Small point: (19:50 min) -- 'The South dominated the seas with their ironclads'? Hmmm, always suspected that's why Grant lost at Vicksburg. Good catch. Otherwise, well-researched and refreshing vid. Thank you.
@drcthru76724 жыл бұрын
John Jacob Astor was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
@sgtjarhead994 жыл бұрын
The man was indeed ruthless.
@petercarioscia91894 жыл бұрын
There are so many things around my area named after Vanderbilt, most famous might be Motor Parkway, otherwise known as Vanderbilt Parkway. It was the first roadway built exclusively for cars. Nowadays it's a chopped up mess, ranging for a 2 lane sort of backroad to 4 lane highway. It used to go quite a long ways when it was first build, from Queens NYC out into the boondocks. Ironically the portion that was out in Queens is more of a walking or biking trail and the remaining driveable portions are where I live out in the boonies (more suburban area now)
@njhawk892 жыл бұрын
A wonderful look at the Commodore,, an amazing story! To see how his descendants used the greatest fortune at the time, a fascinating look is laid out in a book "Fortune's Children: the. Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". A four generation saga that rivals Downton Abbey, but its all real!
@theshadowman13984 жыл бұрын
I heard the name a lot, great to hear back story behind it.
@johNAVEry874 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, love all your channels and am eagerly awaiting more on Big projects. But I would like to see a biographics on Bill Clinton. Thx for what you and your team do.
@JJ-vy2rh4 жыл бұрын
I thought John Jacob Astor would have been America's first big business man
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Lost with the Titanic
@JJ-vy2rh4 жыл бұрын
@@annescholey6546 no he didn't John Jacob Astor the 4th went down with the titanic his great great grandfather was American's first multi millionaire
@danescottstephens4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@Noah_Levy4 жыл бұрын
The Confederacy was absolutely NOT the dominant naval power of the Civil War. The Union had a far larger navy, which is what prompted the CSA to experiment with new types of warships.
@rosellaaalm-ahearn17604 жыл бұрын
You mentioned Victoria Woodhull in passing? She was a very interesting woman, and a video bio of her would be fascinating.
@maxfilmsdotcom70793 жыл бұрын
Yeah the first woman to run for president and one can only wonder what if she won
@herblee41804 жыл бұрын
Vanderbilt's tomb became a meeting place in the 1960s for smoking pot and enjoying the evening. Thank you Cornelius
@birdofhermes35064 жыл бұрын
Interesting tidbit, I guess in the 70's my Gpa got a letter from a family member stating that the last heir to the Vanderbilt fortune wanted to seek out direct relatives to claim ancestral right, but he got the information too late and idk what happened after that, I honestly don't believe it but Idk, I might ask him again. It was cool to learn about a long dead relative.
@kenny808kine84 жыл бұрын
He was so mean to everyone. Family, friends, money, etc.....he only gave you a smidgen of respect if you matched his nastiness.
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
The Monty Burns of his day.
@juansaladzar2 жыл бұрын
Dood I love how all your hair slid off your head down to the bottom of your face. Keep up the good work brah 👍
@mamavand25034 жыл бұрын
As we Dutch say: If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much
@kaogoogle10314 жыл бұрын
As we Americans say: You're welcome from us for defeating the Germans n saving Europe🇺🇲
@mamavand25034 жыл бұрын
@@kaogoogle1031 The American president at the time of the second world war was of Dutch decent :)
@jamesclendon48114 жыл бұрын
Do you really say that? In English? Does that rhyme in Dutch?
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Beter dan ooit?
@connormitchell64464 жыл бұрын
@@kaogoogle1031 The Russians did most of the heavy lifting and without the UK you wouldn't have had a foothold in Europe from which to launch D day
@barbarawenger71614 жыл бұрын
That’s Part One:: The Vanderbilts are still very prominent family so what did all the descendants do with the fortune or with their own lives
@VeracityLH4 жыл бұрын
Interesting story, that. Half a century after the Commodore died, one of his heirs died penniless.
@liamcragin3 жыл бұрын
Anderson Cooper
@nicksalvatore57174 жыл бұрын
When you're such a plutocrat you end up doing a few good things on accident, purely in the name of profit! Cornelius Vanderbilt the Ferengi
@sukaenacornelius92853 жыл бұрын
Well better to do honest good in the name of profit than not be able to good at all.
@Edwardrae12344 жыл бұрын
you should do a video on the war of 1812 never learned much about that in school.
@alexsutton22714 жыл бұрын
I think a Henry Flagler bio would quite interesting
@johnmaguire33284 жыл бұрын
That was excellent, I learned a lot, thanks
@christopherlee26884 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, big fan of yours from the States, the beard is looking pristine; thanks for enriching my life with knowledge!! Cheers!
@ronprecise36823 жыл бұрын
1950’s (1850’s should of said) @ 19:38- ooops Simon😫😀😂😊‼️‼️‼️
@phoenixfats11904 жыл бұрын
I would like to throw the suggestion of a Biographic on Sam Walton for the next one covering an industrialist.
@withonelook19854 жыл бұрын
Actually John Jacob Astor was the Americas first tycoon
@libertyhog14284 жыл бұрын
Just started watching this one. Looking forward to hearing about his middle finger enterprise to the State granted ferry monopolies. Openly defying the anti-free market Gov't granted monopolies by running his own ferries at a fraction of the costs.
@flatplant4 жыл бұрын
Dude relax.. these channels are nothing more than information candy. If you want a rotund and thorough account with "no buzz" words, maybe look for a channel with a more acedemic approach. Not entertainment.
@BTScriviner2 жыл бұрын
You might want to watch it again--Vanderbilt had no issues with monopolies provided his was the monopoly.
@BTScriviner2 жыл бұрын
@@flatplant Or he might want to find some reich-wing propaganda channel to confirm his opinion.
@twocvbloke4 жыл бұрын
"Rank; Age?" "Commodore; 64" Yeah, even I think that joke is rubbish... :P
@nicksalvatore57174 жыл бұрын
look at us nerds
@brentgranger78564 жыл бұрын
Just think about how many people don't even understand what that means.
@averageamericangirl68194 жыл бұрын
Love it🤣🤣🤣🤣
@b.griffin3174 жыл бұрын
Do the caflins next!
@aaropajari70584 жыл бұрын
Next... Carl Gustav Mannerheim!
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Hero of Finland burnt Stalin's mustache
@beanalupines51014 жыл бұрын
19.36 ..... Starting in the late 1950's ??? Haha...Just a little jab. Great video. Thanks.
@jamesfracasse81784 жыл бұрын
1850's
@lisalasoya28986 ай бұрын
If, I did not know better I would think that this gent Cornelius Vanderbilt haves a similarity to Ralph Emerson, but like they say "everyone haves a twin." So, we are analyzing this statue and: The steamer was leaving a berth in the harbor at her usual time. Someone from the steamer hailed the sloop to luff or to put her helm down, but the sloop kept to her course, the master expressly refusing to give way. The steamer was turning when the collision happened. After considering the matter, the court refused to allow the sloop owner to recover because the sloop had brought the injury on herself. The Cornelius C. Vanderbilt District Court, S.D. New York December, 1848, Term Case No. 3,235
@gypsydust4 жыл бұрын
Great job again!
@Sol-mr1lv4 жыл бұрын
Do a video on His Royal Highness Simon Legend Whistler!
@frenchartantiquesparis4244 жыл бұрын
My uncle is directly related to Arabella Huntington who was one of the richest women in America for some time.... The Huntington's were part of the railroad barons... Would be cool if you do a video on them....
@split_bug67604 жыл бұрын
Can you do Martin Luther next? The guy behind the protestant reformation
@stephenwright88244 жыл бұрын
He's done a video on him already I think.
@split_bug67604 жыл бұрын
@@stephenwright8824 I searched a bit and I can't seem to find anything
@willcox45618 ай бұрын
It was William H. who first got into railroads, not his father. His father only got interested when William convinced him it was the way of the future.
@Shakespeare438 Жыл бұрын
Can we please have subtitles for the HoH. Thanks.
@michaelhurley31714 жыл бұрын
Rude, outspoken, billionaire from NY. Do you know anyone else like that?
@archstanton61024 жыл бұрын
Who also sleeps with prostitutes - no idea who you mean.
@drpepper38382 жыл бұрын
True dutch merchant spirit!!
@jarodbenson94794 жыл бұрын
There are storytellers and then there is Simon Whistler
@tammyrogers31374 жыл бұрын
Wow! 8 minutes ago! Thank you Simon!
@augsdoggs4 жыл бұрын
Tammy Rogers the video is over 20 mins long. You needed to leave an early comment about how long the video has been up instead of first watching it?
@Tavat Жыл бұрын
Without Googling it, I would bet a hundred dollars that Bezos was a BIG fan of Vanderbilt’s underpricing method.
@densealloy4 жыл бұрын
14:30 Walker actually called his new country "Republic of Sonora" not the "Republic of Lower California".
@elliebells014 жыл бұрын
Would love to see I Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Of Wimpole St
@zakariamussa37034 жыл бұрын
For a country thats 300 years old, it does have a rich history.
@brianardito6721 Жыл бұрын
19:35 "Starting in the late 1950s he began selling..." Dude lived a very long time.
@chandradattd79653 жыл бұрын
undercutting competition results in better prices for consumers
@densealloy4 жыл бұрын
Cornelius Vanderbilt is Anderson Coopers great great great great grandfather.
@whatsname26492 жыл бұрын
Was waiting for you to mention Walker. Mind blowing. If he'd of worked with Vanderbilt he'd of been King of Nicaragua. Didn't know about Mexican & Honduran attempts.
@vinnyvalenti61894 жыл бұрын
Nick Yuragua?!! He's at it again.
@ripsumrall80184 жыл бұрын
He's British FFS!
@feleciaclemons50744 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@stephen96094 жыл бұрын
@@ripsumrall8018 Doesn't mean that he can butcher names of people or places just because he's British. I honestly think he likes doing it on purpose cause he's a pompous asshole.
@gernblanston33634 жыл бұрын
19:36 did you say 1950s?
@madamlakwatsera56742 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@bythebeardofmatt4 жыл бұрын
Where do you get your music for the intro screens for this, Geographics etc.?
@williambarraclough87123 жыл бұрын
Could you do Pompey please.
@marialiyubman3 жыл бұрын
I’ll stick to having just enough money to live well just so I never have to meet these people or their children (one even killed himself, I don’t blame him...).