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  1. One thing I dearly hope is at least touched on and most certainly cannot be overlooked when talking about Modern Japanese Militarism is the antagonistic relationship between the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy. Especially going into the 20th Century, the Army and Navy were arguably greater foes of each other than any outside power. Cooperation between the two branches was practically non-existent to the point of open hostility and occasional brawls between officers in the halls of government. Arguments have even been floated that this very antagonism between the Army and the Navy was one of the major factors that ultimately lost Japan the Second World War.
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  2. The old "void history," "lost history," etc literary mechanics always fascinated me for some reason. Digging up something like this that had been more or less unknown for 3000+ years must have been pretty exciting. also, Akhenaten probably might have learned a thing or two from CGP Grey's Rules for Rulers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  3. Shoutout to my boy Ahmad Ziad Turk, that dude is at the end of every video, mans has been supporting this channel forever
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  4. Also worth noting regarding the failure of Operation Michael (the last German offensive mentioned here) was the breakdown in discipline among the German troops once exposed to captured French territory. Numerous reports have circulated of German units capturing French villages well behind the original trench lines only for their advance to mysteriously stop. When officers were sent forward to see what was wrong, they often found their troops drunk on French wine or gorging themselves on sausage and cheese, food and drink in quantities they hadn't seen for years due to rationing forced by the Entente blockade. Even when threatened with courtmartial, some units simply refused to move until the towns had been stripped bare. It's pure conjecture on my part, but it seems very possible that many German troops may have contracted the flu while on these pillaging kinda-mutinies. It was only a week into the offensive that Ludendorff declared a primary objective: The key railway junction at Amiens. Had the Germans been successful, the Entente's supply lines would have been thrown into chaos and supply of large portions of the trench lines would have been next to impossible. But by then it was too late; the offensive had lost momentum and the Entente forces had rallied, halting any further advance. It was all the Germans could do to dig in once again to avoid being pushed back, which they eventually were at the great Battle of Amiens, one of the first major uses of all branches of the military: air power, infantry squads, tanks, mobile artillery, machine gun units, even cavalry to a limited degree, all coordinated as one. Also, regarding the situation with Russia, even after the revolution things were far from simple. It took the Russians months to even settle on which new government was really in charge, and this quickly devolved into the Russian Civil War 1917-1923. Once the Bolshevik government, let by Lenin, did gain enough support to negotiate with the Germans, the Russian diplomats, led by Leon Trotsky, dragged their heels about accepting German peace proposals. It was only when Germany threatened to push through Latvia and take St. Petersburg that Trotsky was finally forced to accept... something. The final treaty was almost incomprehensible, but it did technically end Russia's involvement in the war against Germany... sort of. Even so, while the Germans were able to pull a lot of units from the Eastern Front, a large contingent of the army was kept pinned down at the Russian border as the threat of the war reigniting there still remained until the very end.
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  5. "And worst of all... humans." GASP! So man was truly the monster all along!
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  6. Its very telling that in Greek mythology, the symbol of trespassing boundaries and uncontroled consumption was the boar of Erimantus.
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  7. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
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  8. Brb adding "viewing the Cold War through the lens of the space race" to my list of things I wish we did in school.
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  9. John Brown’s body may lie moldering in its grave, but his soul goes marching on.
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  10. 0:42 Little did the conspirators know, but the De' Medici family had a powerful ally. One who lives in the dark, serving the light.... He name was Ezio Auditore da Firenze! (Also, I recently got my copy of Extra History's 2025 calendar, I love it! Thank you, Extra History!)
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  11. Aaaand we are live! Thank you Extra Credits for re-telling the storry of these heartwarming events. P.S in the In the spirit of the Christmas Truce we have a bonus code for World of Tanks for you: use HULSE14 for some free goodies! Happy Holidays!
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  12. As an Icelander I just love hearing the pronunciations, which are really quite good compared to other english speakers. 1. Thank you, thank you, thank you for pronouncing Hel as hell instead of hella. That alone almost ruined Thor: Ragnarok for me. 2. Please, by Odin's beard, please don't say bi-frost as if the bridge has frozen twice. It's split bif-röst. EDIT addition: You pronounce heim correctly yay! :D
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  13. Hey! It wasn't our (the Spanish) fault. How could we know that an animal so delicious could be so dangerous?
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  14. SO, the real reason Kyogre and Groudon fight
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  15. David Hueso deserves a shoutout for that art. Sublime Frankenstein's monster was sublime. Some really stand up work to portray the whole alien nature of the genre. Great episode as always. Will we get into some of the classical work Frankenstein's monster read?
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  16. Game of thrones: I am complicated Third crusade: hold my holy water
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  17. I'm so happy as an irish person to see our history animated by you guys
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  18. I googled it afterwards. The recommendations I have received have now turned me into a flat earth 9/11 truther. The lizard people on the moon will repress me no more!
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  19. davis bursting into a room to warn the cadets about hitchcock only to find him already there sounds like something straight out of a movie
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  20. Santa may not be a member of the Justice League, but he delivers a piece of coal to Darkseid every year. True facts.
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  21. Huh, deja vu? I'm reminded of the hogs in history episode
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  22. Thank you for focusing on history beyond europe
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  23. I think that Robert Peel is the person who John Keele was named after, the man who would shape the career of policeman Samuel Vimes in the Discworld books. Vimes enacted quite a few reforms of his own on the police force in his city, going from a bunch of louts who sweep up the corpses and the drunk to get them out of the public eye to a police force fitting a metropole like Ankh-Morpork.
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  24. "lets look at scandinavian society" — Oh my god another Anthropology series! Finally!
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  25. Dividing llama herds? Isn't that a lot of drama for the llama
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  26. probably didn't wanna get sued lol
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  27. Aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localised entirely within the arctic circle?
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  28. The beat dropped harder than Antioch.
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  29. I don't know much about this "oddly satisfying imagery" trend that's been going on for a while, but the color wheel at 1:15 DEFINITELY fits that bill.
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  30. What a punch! To start your career being pulled from the crowd to volunteer to try a fight!! 👀
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  31. You know you've probably gone a bit too far when you make the York's and Lancaster's look like a bickering high school couple.
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  32. Imagine your wedding was so fun, everyone mutually agreed to celebrate your anniversary every year even long after you were dead.
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  33. You were my brother Jamukha! I loved you!
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  34. As a Swede I know that when Gävlebocken is in the News it will be good Christmas
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  35. Fun fact: a cosmonaut candidate had to be short enough to fit into the small space capsule =)
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  36. I remember being so confused by this book's slang when I first picked it up, but within the first three chapters it became super easy to pick up. There's something so natural about the book's strange invented language and use of slang and I highly appreciate it.
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  37. My dad is a VP at his union, so you can probably imagine my personal opinions on ford, but man, knowing your son thought you hated him up to the moment he died is a feeling I wouldn’t wish on anyone
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  38. No one escapes my wrath!
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  39. It's always endlessly fascinating watching the creative ways in which women like Eleanor were able to maneuver their way around a society hostile to them.
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  40. You know, the Aesir could have spared themselves a lot of trouble if they had just... you know, not tried to murder their own house guest on based the flimsiest conceivable evidence. And failing that, after the Vanir discovered the Aesir's deception, why kill the hostage who actually had genuine wisdom and not the dude they just realised was a useless idiot? If I were in their shoes, I'd have killed Hoenir and made Mimir the new adviser.
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  41. Huh. She seemed way more willing to make deals with the Portuguese than I expected at first. Also,, way to screw a profitable business and diplomatic relationship on the governor's part.
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  42. Growing up in Canada I was always told by older kids you had to hold a knife to your throat and say her name 9 times in the mirror, funny how the urban legend differs from region to region and time period
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  43. Fun fact, DnD Liches were in part inspired by slavic warlocks (which are actully called witchers, but Gerald made them good guys) and the tale of Koshchey the Deathless.
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  44. Congratulations on your first episode partner !!! beautifully done , much better than mine for sure ;P. WEEKLY EH ! TEAMWORK YEAH !
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  45. Ford clearly did a major oopsie doopsie
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  46. 5:12 Give the artist a raise. That is stunning.
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  47. In hindsight, I feel like Napoleon's time in Egypt is overlooked compared to all his other campaigns. Histories talking about him usually focus on things like his ascension to power, his wars with Britain, or even specific battles like Trafalgar or Waterloo. So, I'm hyped to see this side of his story 😊
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  48. While I agree that the Clinton impeachment was mostly politically motivated, the underlying reason was actually rather reasonable. There was a very strong case that the President of the United States lied under oath. While that might be no big deal when the lie is about an extramarital affair, it sets a very dangerous precedent if a President can lie in judicial proceedings and face no repercussions. So I don't think that it is the best example to use for changing the rules.
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  49. As a Dearborn native who is knowledgeable about Henry Ford (and loves the Henry Ford Museum) this series is one that I've been looking forward too for a while. A fascinating yet flawed man, he remains one of the most compelling historical figures in American history. We are living in his world, as without his influence and ingenuity we would be in a very different place. Right and wrong as he was, no one can't argue that he didn't change the world.
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  50. I propose that we changes the Erasmus program name, for the Battuta program. Because he seems much more fitting with the spirit of the matter.
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