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Hi I'm John, and I've been passionate about #history since I could remember. I majored in history and historical reseach and triained for a year under an actual historian. Ultimately I am a a History Buff like many of us. Let's #react and discuss things we know and so much we don't know about history!
In 2001 I was honored to be the recipient of the Jack H. Longaker History Prize. This is an award for a senior year student that shows a great passion for history.
How is this channel different from other history channels? It is simple, I have learned and worked along side many historians verifying and discovering sourcess that add more context to a person, an area or topic. This does not make meautomatically knowledgable in history, this helps me understand how we come to conclusions on history. However, enjoying learning about history we all like makes us History Buffs!

[@HumorAndHistory]

I am working of fixing the echo in the last sections of this. My Apologies!

[@kristena9285]

It's not a big deal It's really not a big really deal Its's not a big It's not a big deal big deal really really...

[@mc-ec3bu]

Good.

[@NarnianRailway]

Echo? Thought you were just trying to comprehend and process Philomena Cunk's logic.😆

[@InspiredJJ]

@@NarnianRailway 😂

[@theubiquejim]

yeah, had to leave due to the echo

[@markalexander3659]

Don't "poor Boris Johnson"! He deserves everything he gets. He's basically our Trump (but not THAT terrible of course)

[@Will-nn6ux]

The thing about being only able to dream of 400 viewers was a dig at BBC Four rather than the BBC as a whole. BBC Four is the BBC's 'intellectual' TV channel (focusing on the arts, documentaries, current affairs, foreign language dramas etc).

[@carlgibson285]

Diane Morgan is amazing and I couldn't imagine anyone else doing her job as well as she does, but the writer and creator of Philomena Cunk, Charlie Brooker, also deserves some of the credit for how great these shows are. His track record is impressive - not only did he introduce the world to Philomena Cunk, he also created and wrote the show Black Mirror.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Such a great group of people that have a hand in this, a gem of a series to be sure!

[@nigeh5326]

Love Charlie Brooker’s own shows on BBC

[@coot1925]

You're right about the frame rate. It was caused by the camera being hand cranked so getting the speed right was purely guess work. Then when the film was projected it was driven by electric motors.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Thank you for confirming that and adding some more information and context to it!

[@ReedoTV]

The greatest skill of the time was the ability to turn a handle at EXACTLY 24 fps. A lost talent!

[@pomerau]

Alan Turing. Loved my first channel visit. Great reactions, knowledge and appreciation of the humour. A few great minds went in to the making of these. I've only discovered Philomena Cunk in recent weeks, though it has aired since around 2016/7? I wasn't sure it was a real documentary from brief clips and the accent put me off (me an Irishman in London!) There's a great stage interview of Diane Morgan, writer Charlie Brooker (very comedically talented all around) and one other I forget. Very insightful. I think it was under the BAFTA or SAG awards week of interviews. I couldn't find it again.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Thank you, I am new to her as well. History and humor done well, is hard to accomplish. I appreciate the feedback!

[@jonasfermefors]

The poem is "Dulce Et Decorum Est" one of many brilliant poems by Wilfred Owen, a young man who died in the war. The last lines after the quote we heard are: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. [translation: it is good/honorable to die for your country]

[@tedroper9195]

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic design. The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. The German firm Scherbius & Ritter, co-founded by Scherbius, patented ideas for a cipher machine in 1918 and began marketing the finished product under the brand name Enigma in 1923 The British began work on decrypting German Enigma messages, using the Polish equipment and techniques.

[@ReedoTV]

Cabbage*

[@AgentOccam]

It was hard to tell for sure what you said at one point about the BBC, but I'm pretty sure it's still available 24/7.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

Well to be fair Europeans get confronted with "such kind of questions + statements" from "avarage/ordinary" US tourists on a daily basis. No offence...just the truth.

[@HumorAndHistory]

None taken! Us Americans in general have a lot of stereotypes, many are true enough. 👍

[@webz3589]

As for frame rate this is indeed true, at the time the standard frame rate was around 15fps (give or take with hand cranking) now its 24fps and many make the mistake if playing old films at that frame rate resulting in these films looking fast.

[@kimarnill7648]

Have you ever watched Charlie chaplin the great dictator, there is a speech in that movie that is so fresh and relevant today it’s frightening.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Yes you have made an interesting comment here. It is quite a good one that can be applied to a myriad of situations in recent history (other than the original intention). Every time I hear it I feel it applies to a current situation. 👍

[@wizardflaps]

"It was machine that did enigmas. No idea what they named it. Something to do with enigmas and machines. Give me a clue, machines and enigmas."

[@HumorAndHistory]

I have just been reading up on that!

[@wizardflaps]

@@HumorAndHistory Let me save you some time. It was the enigma machine.

[@MJS-vx3oj]

Alan Turing is on our current £50 note. Another show you might want to check out is a series of British comedy sketches from the 90s called 'History Today' by Newman and Baddiel. It's two history professors who end up slinging childish playground insults at each other.

[@HumorAndHistory]

I have never hear of it! I will check it out. Thank you!

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

‘…that’s you, that is.” 😊

[@fifi23o5]

I can only imagine what was going through the heads of those poor historians with the questions and keeping straight faces. I'm pretty sure there must be tons of bloopers. That would be great to watch.

[@CM-ey7nq]

Well done. Greetings from Norway :)

[@HumorAndHistory]

Hello, your country is beautiful!

[@MrSketchydave69]

Tommy Flowers, who was an engineer for the Post Office, is now credited for building the world's first electronic computer at Bletchley Park. He could never discuss it when he was alive, due to it being classified by the British Government. It was this machine that enabled the British to decode Enigma traffic so quickly.

[@HumorAndHistory]

I have not heard of him. thank you!

[@TheEulerID]

@@HumorAndHistory The computer was called Colossus, and it wasn't used to break the Enigma, but a different enciphering machine called Lorenz. The Lorenz machine was used for the highest levels of German military communication, whilst the Enigma machines were mostly used at the tactical level. Tommy Flowers, who built the machine, was a telephone engineer, but the guy who worked out how the Lorenz cipher machine worked, without ever seeing one was a genius called Bill Tutte who later emigrated to Canada as a university academic. Some claim that it was the single greatest intellectual achievement of WW II. Whilst Colossus is often called the first electronic computer, it was not what is called "Turing complete". That is it was not a general purpose computer, and it's programming was very specifically targeted at breaking Lorenz encrypted messages. The phrase "Turing complete" is important here, as the most well known character from Bletchley Park was the mathematician Alan Turing and, prior to WW II, had written the first seminal work on computing with a highly abstracted general purpose computer now called a Turing Machine. It wasn't a real computer architecture, but sort of logical model of one and was used in a sort of thought experiment which dealt with a technical problem called he "stopping problem". Basically could a computer ever run a programme that would predict whether another programme would ever stop (the answer is that it can't, and this is related to a theorem in mathematics called the Godel's incompleteness theorem). In any event, Alan Turing worked on the Enigma decoding and the various codes that used it for the various arms of the German military including, crucially, the U-Boats. The work at Bletchley was based on Polish breakthroughs who achieved the first decryption of German Enigma encodings in the late 1930s, and had gained access to a military Enigma machine via spies (and involving the French). However, by 1939, they Germans had introduced some upgrades, and the Poles were unable to break messages encrypted with these machines, and it was at the dawn of WW II that they shared their breakthroughs with the French and British. It was due to that work, which was heavily based on mathematics, that the British realised what was possible. Turing was the key figure that took on that work, refined it an added his own insights and designed the famous Bombes, which were electromechanical in nature, recreations of which can be seen at the museum at Bletchley Park (alongside a working Colossus). The work at Bletchley Park was passed onto the USA prior to the entry of the latter into WW II, and the Americans, in time, built even more Bombes than the British, and which ran faster. America was the world leader in such electromechanical devices (witness IBM among other companies). However, it should be emphasised, that the mathematics alone did not break the Enigma codes. The decryption process relied on poor German procedures and human nature as well. If Enigma had been used properly, then it would not have been consistently broken. The human factor mattered as well. Nb. Bletchley Park was part of a vast organisation of decryption and signal analysis. It employed several tens of thousands of people.

[@tedroper9195]

The team at Bletchley Park devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.

[@denewst01]

Built by Tommy Flowers - Jeremy Clarkson covered it in one of his documentaries from a few years back, genuinely interesting stuff

[@steveaga4683]

Most of the groundwork was done by the Poles. Without their efforts, Turing would not have succeeded! Sadly, they don't tend to get much credit for their efforts.

[@victordevonshire807]

Tommy Atkins

[@HumorAndHistory]

Yes, Ty!

[@kerryannestevenson6099]

Alan Turing,chose chemical castration rather than prison as punishment for his homosexuality which was illegal in Britain until 1969.This action led his to commit suicide by eating an apple laced with poison.

[@HumorAndHistory]

I forgot about the suicide part. Wasn’t there a question of whether it was truly that or perhaps an intentional poisoning from from someone else?

[@twrampage]

Also important to note that not all Nazis were German.

[@HumorAndHistory]

and not all Germans were Nazis. Great comment!

[@mrfrosty3]

Odd how many people imagine that they would be the "good" Germans during WW2.

[@iriscollins7583]

Its strange that very few Germans seem to have been Nazis at the end of the WWII.

[@mattrichards915]

The audio of your commentary has a terrible echo in the latter parts.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Thank you for confirming to me that it is unfortunately that noticeable. It is now two videos this happened in. I have been trouble shooting. 👍

[@robertgould1345]

It's a new thing. All the cool KZbin channels will be copying it.

[@louuj6058]

I tried but it was too painful 😅.

[@markcutting6504]

Charlie Brooker was the main writer.he wrote a t v series called in bed with me dinner.parody on in bed with Madonna while back now.but Dianne had free reign as well.the historians did no she was an actress but had no idea what questions she was gonna ask.she appeared in a comedy few years called mandy.try & check it out but it might be to northern working class for some to be funny

[@pathopewell1814]

'Motherland' was and is, my favourite comedy. Diane Morgan was brilliant in this series. She is an excellent actress.

[@UKRSHEV]

We need more Cunk 🥳

[@HumorAndHistory]

She is so funny!

[@theresahemminger1587]

I love her humor. It may seem a bit crass to wish we could rely of her historical facts but Will Cuppy did it as I recall in The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody-or maybe I was just too young to discriminate at the time. Hmmmm….I guess that’s my point. Addendum. This video is actually accurate so my comment doesn’t apply here. It was the third consecutive Cunk I watched and in the other 2 the historical errors were part of the comedy-if you knew they were errors-such as a reference the non-existent King Richard V.

[@iammyriad71]

Alan Turring.

[@alexdelarosa3684]

Have you not been listening? It’s Winton.

[@HumorAndHistory]

😂

[@Ian-lx1iz]

Two for the price of one - a _double-good reaction_ ...George Orwell would have said.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Very nice 👍

[@GatBlackistan]

Can you possibly enlarge your image a bit? I can barely see you reacting on my little phone screen.

[@HumorAndHistory]

Yes, thank you! I have since enlarged it!

[@robertgould1345]

He's tiny in real life.

[@nigeh5326]

Did you know in the twenties when electricity was taking over from gas in British homes you could have a gas powered refrigerator, radio and other items? QI the BBC show covered it in 1 episode but I can’t find a video of it on KZbin.

[@HumorAndHistory]

I did not know about the radio!

[@direnova6284]

Although it's complete crazy nonsense, it does make you think from a different perspective.

[@SaudBako]

What's with the reverb?

[@UKRSHEV]

And make a window with yourself at least 9 times bigger, people watching reactions already saw the subject video, and they enjoy watching you reacting more than anything

[@HumorAndHistory]

9 times? That is huge ;) maybe 2.5 times?

[@UKRSHEV]

@@HumorAndHistory Obviously you're not TheMathBuff lol. 9 Times would be stretching your window 3 times in each direction...and even then it would be pretty small compared to other reactors 😅

[@InspiredJJ]

@@UKRSHEV you are a hilarious commentator 😆. I’m about a month ahead on videos, but I will make them bigger in the new ones 👍. Thanks!

[@patrickquinlan3056]

I haven't seen the original so I am thankful the window is not 9 times bigger. I hate it when reactors use their videos as an excuse to show off. I am not watching this to see a reactor.

[@HumorAndHistory]

@@patrickquinlan3056 I have a link below for the original video of it helps you 🙂

[@Renamatic]

I had to stop because of the feedback. I couldn’t hear anything you were saying by the end. 😢

[@HumorAndHistory]

I am working on the audio, I hope to have it sorted soon, thank you for the comment though 🙂

[@victordevonshire807]

Brilliant. You tell me the truth? ❤👍🙏

[@HumorAndHistory]

👍 I try to.

[@johncurrie6359]

Aye please do. Un-listenable at the moment..

[@SomeGuy-hd4cn]

Baird invented a mechanical tv which required a giant disk spinning at the same rpm as the transmitter, so really no, he didnt invent television. Philmore Farnsworth, (futurama professor is a nod to him.) invented the first solid state and therefore useful television system.