Historians, What Is the Strangest Chain of Events You Have Studied? - Reddit Podcast

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[@CJRULESWORLD]

How 8 days ago?

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

So, if I'm getting this right... That means that the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand led to 50 Shades of Gray. 1.) Arch duke is assassinated. 2.) World War 1 happens. 3.) The Russian government is taken over and made into the Soviet Union. 4.) Soviets invade Afghanistan. 5.) Americans fight off the Soviets with the help of locals, including Bin Laden. 6.) Bin Laden is responsible for 9/11. 7.) 9/11 inspires Gerard Way to form My Chemical Romance. 8.) My Chemical Romance inspires the creation of Twilight. 9.) Twilight inspires a piece of work that started as a Twilight fanfiction before becoming its own thing called 50 Shades of Gray.

[@tejloro]

This is probably worse than the rise of the USSR or 9/11 (It's satire, people... calm down...)

[@MarsMellow84]

😂😂😂

[@MarsMellow84]

​@tejloro 😂😂😂

[@antimatterg]

Does this mean Franz Ferdinand also led to Variations on a Cloud by Miracle Musical

[@MrChristianDT]

Now tie in Mormonism & Dracula & we've got ourselves a proper documentary.

[@octaviusmorlock]

#5, Yes! John Adams, and John Quincy Adams.

[@Idont_eatcrocs]

2:54 Wojtek pronounced in polish is like Voy-tech

[@emberfist8347]

Story 3: we didn’t arm any groups Bin Laden associated with. The closer cause would be the devastation to the country causing the Afghan Civil War which caused the Taliban to be created and take power.

[@GrahamLavelle-hn3sz]

How did the person rationally start a war against emus? "You know dem emus are takin over our land! We must fight the birds!" *loses* "...fuck"

[@D.LeeFrey]

2-3 days before the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederates were camped in a city called Wrightsville, trying to capture a covered railroad bridge built about 18 years earlier that spanned over the Susquehanna River from Wrightsville to a city called Columbia. If they had captured said railroad bridge, they were going straight through Lancaster County, headed further East to Philadelphia, then South to DC. 2 recently freed African Americans and 2 locals from the city of Columbia came up with a plan to blow up a piece of the bridge to at least delay the Confederates, so they put close to 50 pounds of TNT on the bridge and waited for the Confederates to cross. When the Confederates started crossing, the 4 guys tried blowing up part of the bridge. The first time, nothing happened. The second time, the entire covered bridge burst into flames and most of the bridge (with the exception of the bridge spires) dropped into the Susquehanna River. Due to bridge being on fire at first, the Confederates told the locals from Wrightsville to give them their pitchers, buckets and anything else, but the locals refused, angering the Confederates. The only reasonable way to cross was by boat, and the Confederates were afraid of being seen by Union soldiers as they paddled across. So knowing they had reinforcements in Gettysburg, the Confederates strategically retreated to meet up there. This was either July 1st or 2nd of 1863.

[@shannonmcallister6063]

Yes I remember that show!!!! I loved the theme song. Going to look at it right after this.!!!!

[@Isamu1416]

Basically, the emus can run really fast, are intelligent enough to avoid the fire effectively and their bodies are extremely resistant to Bishop with automatic weapons. In addition, the shooters and various locals

[@Isamu1416]

injured by emus that attacked the position with claws and beaks. The creatures also quickly discovered that the German machine gun only had a firing angle of 140 degrees (220°), so they were completely unprotected. So they started mounting the things on vehicles. In the entire war, which lasted three rounds, over 2000 ratites were killed, which only temporarily reduced the population. Then the British put a stop to it and the two towns that needed to be protected, as well as various farms around them, were abandoned because nobody could cope with the ratites.

[@Fizzyfro]

The endless ocean gameplay is absolutely amazing

[@MrChristianDT]

My weird one was finding out that a village of Native Americans used to exist on land tribes set aside for everyone's collective use in a neighboring county because the tribe in question lived much further away from said area than the others, but they got evicted by the US government in 1795 after a war, then going back into studying my own county's history & trying to figure out who the Natives were that everyone was seeing around here when white settlers first started moving in, if they all got evicted, only to find that there were two villages in the neighboring counties on the other side of me that were of two completely different tribes & one of them was, in fact, the same group of people that got evicted from the other side. Then, trying to figure out where they went, as no one saw them after 1811 & realizing the most likely explanation was they all moved halfway across the state to join a pantribal cult which became ground zero for another war against the US that they also lost. And then having a really old local who lived near said village saying that his grandfather told him at least one guy stayed until he died, alone, of old age some time around 1900.

[@glucen4408]

not sure if im chronically online or people are just echo chambering known facts but ive heard alot of this stuff before

[@TheReal_CoachCason]

Story #8 sounds like it would be the plot for an episode of McHale's Navy.🤣😮

[@MaxTheCat-eh5ts]

3:55 John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

[@PurpleVixen-V]

Yay new stories!

[@Isamu1416]

injured by emus that attacked the position with claws and beaks. The creatures also quickly discovered that the German machine gun only had a firing angle of 140 degrees (220°), so they were completely unprotected. So they started mounting the things on vehicles. In the entire war, which lasted three rounds, over 2000 ratites were killed, which only temporarily reduced the population. Then the British put a stop to it and the two towns that needed to be protected, as well as various farms around them, were abandoned because nobody could cope with the ratites.

[@emberfist8347]

They were using Lewis guns which weren’t German.

[@Isamu1416]

@@emberfist8347 An often repeated but incorrect historical fact: in the Emu Wars, two German machine guns of the type MG 08 were used primarily. This error occurs because the British bought some Levis machine guns that the Americans had produced without taking the market into account. The Emo Wars did not significantly reduce the ratite population, but they did provide amazing insights into the use of machine guns, as well as the possibilities for optimizing them and recognizing potential problems that might arise. Funnily enough, a lot of the knowledge about German weapons technology that was very useful in the Second World War came from these, let's call them, experiments.

[@emberfist8347]

@@Isamu1416 Except I could find no source to back up your claim they used the MG-08.

[@jakubrudniewski2622]

3:01 Its pronounced Voytek in Polish i should know cos i am Polish

[@StephJ.K]

The end of story 13 was the best part of the video 😂

[@Lito64]

To add to the Emu war they lost one truck with a machine gun and a man was injured in the crash.

[@emilydonut3262]

1:37 Look at the time we thought it was good idea 😂😂 (I'm Australian by the way 🇦🇺)

[@ThatDiamondGuy1565]

The Russian Baltic Fleets adventure into Japan.

[@April_2007]

Transference - strapping chickens to plague sores???

[@historianKelly]

At the very end, you ask, "What?" to the historian's musings about viewing Medieval history through the mentality from which it comes. Let me try to explain it a little more. What most lay people don't understand about what professional historians do - and one of the more difficult concepts to explain to non-historians - is that we are *highly* trained to take our minds out of our own social & cultural mileu, and put ourselves as close to seeing the historical topic through the eyes of someone who lived it as possible. That means casting aside our own contemporary feelings, values, and ethics, and viewing and valuing past events similar to how people in that time did. That's why it's so important for historians to keep expanding our mentalities, the way we see our world & our time, because the more we're able to embrace social & cultural change, the easier we can look backward and see past societies for exactly what they were, and not as a reflection of what we want them to have been. Our quest for being as close to perfect on our interpretation of the past overtakes our desire to please our contemporaries - that's my nice way of saying, when reactionaries get angry because we've discovered something new about the past & it doesn't jive with their opinion, we don't give a sh*t, we are interested in accuracy, not sycophancy. BTW, thanks to reddit for asking, and you for highlighting, questions of historians. People these days seem to forget we exist because they make up their own pseudo-history & then get mad when a professional corrects them: "Yes, your re-interpretation of that Wikipedia page just far supercedes my 11 years of collegiate study, 20+ years of research experience, and multiple degrees in History, sure."

[@DarialKuznetsova]

Porter hijinks reminds me of Kamchatka...

[@Iceburgh6901]

The Attack of the Dead Men.

[@Uraveragenewb]

Great video! 1 hour gang 😊

[@nukerwolf7788]

Narrator mentioned Fear and hunger and it being a game with doppelgangers. I search for information on KZbin, thumbnails say "cruelest game ever' I save several to watch later and if there is any good lore or stuff to take from it my future d&d players will have you to blame for their nightmares 😈😈 bwahaha

[@tejloro]

LINDESFARNE!!!!!

[@heypatk]

William Henry Harrison grandson Benjamin Harrison as well

[@baddadjoker9570]

I must be a nerd. Nothing new to me in this list. Some of the Willie D stories are heavily exaggerated though.

[@timmis15]

Mormans believe that in 1978 god changed his mind about black people

[@historianKelly]

I disagree that WWI led to the Russian Revolution. Russia was already experiencing sociopolitical discontentment prior to the advent of WWI hostilities. The Romanovs were not popular, competent, or contemporary by any means. Morale within the nation was poor, which gave rise to new political ideologies, such as Marxism, among the intelligentsia and youth. Because Nicholas II had so poorly managed the military, they were in no state to defend Russia when WWI hostilities began, let alone fight a world war *and* defend against an uprising at home. There isn't a CAUSAL effect there so much as the Bolshevists took advantage of the incompetence of the czar coupled with the war. There's actually a greater argument for a causal effect between the Bolshevik Revolution and the election of Donald Trump, and it doesn't involve Vladimir Putin.

[@heyyitsjanea]

in nine hundred eleven 😭