Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1. This could've been a great documentary series but was ruined by the inclusion of the music.
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  2. 21:21 Charles G. Dawes, aside from politics, is known for writing the song It's All In The Game with some refinement to the lyric by Carl Sigman in around 1951. The song had been recorded by Tommy Edwards(M-G-M K-11035, August, 1951), Cliff Richard(EMI-Columbia DB-7089, August, 1963) and The Four Tops(Motown M-1164, March, 1970). These are the most notable versions with the Four Tops version the best of them.
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  3. As an indication of how British people thought of her, when she died, her funeral cortege passed through the London streets, as it did so, all the people on the route turned their backs on the cortege. There were no bowed heads to be seen, from all reports. Thatcher was held, quite rightly, in UTTER CONTEMPT!
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  4. The female singer's(?) horrible screech is like fingers down a blackboard. It earns this documentary a Thumbs-Down from me.
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  5. 5:00 Cadbury Castle.... Made of chocolate and full of nuts! LOL
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  6.  @carolinebarnes6832  People grew to despise her during that last term as she showed herself to be arrogant and autocratic.
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  7.  @georgevladimirovich7190  America and Britain are always quick to take credit for events in which they played no actual role, America moreso than Britain. The dissolution of the Soviet State started in Poland with the formation of the first free Trade Union, "Solidarnosc(Solidarity)" led by Lech Wallesa(pardon the guessed spelling). The Pope had nothing at all to do with any part of this movement. And Romania's own people threw off their hated dictator, Nikolai Caicescu(again guessed spelling) and the first the Americans knew of it was when they read it in their morning newspapers.
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  8.  @kordellswoffer1520  Thatcher was RIGHTLY despised throughout Britain. Good riddance to her.
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  9.  @annabeljames9759  Poll Tax for one, charging citizens a tax to exercise their basic democratic rights, the right to VOTE at elections. There are other examples I'm sure, but that Poll Tax comes immediately to mind.
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  10. Unlike A Bones, I will complain about the sound. The audio mix is appalling with the English translations near drowned out by the original German speech. Either A) have the Germans speak for hemselves with English subtitles added, or B) mix back the German speech so it does not overpower the English translation by the narrator. This video gets a Thumbs-Down from me.
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  11. The maths are off... The Queen Isabella was only 12 when married to Edward II in 1310. At 22:58 the story has progressed 11 years to 1321, the Queen is 23 years old, not 25.
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  12. 4:30 Nixon DID NOT play Football! He played an over-choreographed, over-organised game called "Gridiron". Football is a European game, invented in England where the object of the game is to defeat the goalkeeper and kick or head the ball into a goal net, and the ball is spherical, as balls should be.
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  13. 4th May, 1979, a black day in British political history! Atilla The Hen becomes Prime Minister. Britain's nightmare has begun.
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  14. 20:39 I've had enough! The audio mixing on this presentation is atrocious!
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  15. This is meant to be a documentary film, not a musical programme. (27:00) The singing should not have been included, especially not the horrible screeching of the female.
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  16. The very least you could do is get spelling correct - CENTRE, not CENTER.
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  17. America's invasion of Grenada in 1983 was an unconscionable act against a peaceful people with no valid reason, enacted by the despotic tyrant, Reagan, who should've been immediately removed from office for the obscenity he had committed.
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  18. Britain does NOT have a PROPER emocracy. An unelected monarch and an upper house full of useless unelected aristocrats NEGATES any claim Britain has to be a democracy of any kind.
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  19.  @shanehayes857  Centre = Correct! Center = Corrupt!
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  20.  @stevecooper6473  They are the Falkland Islands, not the Malvinas! Argentina had NO LEGITIMATE CLAIM on those islands. Thatcher became despised not for actions in relation to salvaging the Falkland Islands, but for her own heavy-handed manner in the British Parliament, acting like she knew better than everyone else, even on her own side of the political "fence". She got too big for her britches!
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  21. Herman Goehring was the Donald Trump of his day.
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  22. 2:05 The question isn't who were the nazis? More like what were the nazis? As they should NEVER, EVER be considered as "human beings"! They were filth personified!
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  23. 18:28 This scene goes to show how utterly dishonourable the English are. Australia should've declared itself a REPUBLIC on 1st January, 1901.
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  24. I gave this a Thumbs-Down, just as I did for Part two because of the ghastly horrid screech of the female in the trio of singers, and for the fact that singing in general has no place in a documentary - any documentary!
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  25. I noticed this as well. Quite a few times I had to drop the audio from stereo back to mono to improve the sound quality only marginally.
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  27. I would never consider Winston Churchill as Britain's "greatest" Prime Minister. He does NOT deserve that recognition. I don't believe Britain ever really had a truly great Prime minister, but by far the worst-ever was Margaret Thatcher. Australia can claim one truly GREAT Prime Minister in John Curtin, but we also had a PM who was an out-and-out FILTHY TRAITOR by the name of Robert Gordon Menzies! Our near neighbour, New Zealand can claim not one, but TWO GREAT PRIME MINISTERS! They had David Lange and their current PM, Jacinta Ardern.
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  28.  @siegfriedsassoon5071  Soccer IS football! It is played by kicking the ball with the FOOT! The full and proper name of the game is British Association Football!
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  29.  @thecawdsquad875  Nixon played "Gridiron", which is as far removed from being "football" as the Planet Mercury is from the Planet Pluto!
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  30.  @thecawdsquad875  Fact: The origin of Football goes back to England in the early 19th Century. the game's official name is British Association Football, and that excludes any and all other "pretenders" to the name, including Rugby League, Rugby Union, Australian Rules, and American Gridiron!
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  31.  @thecawdsquad875  Well, thankfully for me, I'm an Australian. And I've seen your Gridiron once and that was once too often!
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  32.  @thecawdsquad875  "Elapids?"
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  33.  @thecawdsquad875  America has as many species of snakes as we have in Australia.
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  34. 12:00 A major mistake Nixon made in courting China. China should've remained on the outer and should still be so, even today. Look at how China is behaving now in the second decade of the 21st Century. The only change China underwent was to get progressively worse, posing serious threat to neighbouring countries.
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  35. And then Gerald Ford did the UNFORGIVEABLE act of pardoning Nixon, when Ford should've ordered Nixon spend the rest of his life in prison for High Treason for his crimes in office. That Ford pardoned Nixon, opened the way for Trump to be even more criminal in his single term from 2016 to 2020.
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  36.  @ljimlewis  Not saying "hang" Nixon, but jail him for life as he committed crimes while holding the highest office in America(but not the world) and pardoning Nixon set a precedent that should never have been set. Gerald Ford gave carte blanche to criminal presidents from that moment onward, and in the past four-to-five years we've watched the ugly result of an autocratic, megalomaniacal president showing his true colours!
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