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  1. Imagine what a Roman would think of modern day France with its wine and HUGE beer culture mixed together!
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  2. pokemon theme starts playing
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  3. Something odd about having the complaints department next to the injustice department 😂
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  4. "Sometimes, when you want to make progress, you gotta learn not to sweat the small stuff." It's a good lesson. I hope I learn it someday.
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  5. James always travels with no fewer than three discrete decorative skulls.
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  6. AND TODAY WE ARE BROTHERS TONIGHT WE ARE FRIENDS A MOMENT OF PEACE IN A WAR THAT NEVER ENDS
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  7. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo is an anime series based on this book, though it's from the point of view of Albert de Morcerf. It's also set in the non-specific space future, the Count is a space vampire, and there are mecha duels, and it has a pretty awesome aesthetic. it's worth watching is my point.
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  8. How can 3 birds carry away more than 6 apples? Asking the hard questions here.
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  9. Additional info for anyone in interest: In the center of Quito, like in Cusco, you can find odd architecture where the foundations are made out of ancient stones, and the building itself made from colonial bricks. Although, these foundations are not inca like in Cusco, they are Cañari, a tribe from southern Ecuador relocated due to inca expansionism. Those stones are an ancient fortress and here the Cañari, along with other allied tribes, made their last stand against the Incas. Glad you mentioned the valley of hundreds of millenial civilizations. The valley named after the Quitus. Greetings from Quito EH!
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  10. If anyone wondering where Emerald Buddha is now. The statue is located in Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok. (Fun tidbit: The Thai general mentioned in this video who stole the statue eventually became the first king of the current Chakri dynasty)
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  11. Looking for the Articles of Confederation? Never fear, that series will continue every Saturday as usual! This extra series is just that: an extra episode of Extra History every (extra) week! It will not interfere with our regular Saturday release schedule.
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  12. Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone still deserves an Oscar.
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  13. I can decide any election if I'd like
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  14. Glad you caught the 1930 mistake, though it's too bad the audio can't be edited. Still, kind of like the idea of the Mali Empire lasting to the 1930s. Gonna write me some alternate history now.
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  15. Can we get that song in a standalone video? Preferably without an intro or outro? Or just a bonus MP3 for all of your Patrons regardless of the tier. I want to use it as a ring tone. (The one not-Dan sang not the one that comes out with the Lies video anyways.)
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  16. 1. The Peach is a Chinese/Buddhist symbol for knowledge or wisdom. The creatures of the underworld are compelled to eat the virtues/elements of the world. Something about creatures of rot feasting on the living. The grapes and bamboo also have symbolism here too but I don't know them. 2. This is basically the last chronological myth we see Izanagi in. There's no explanation why he's no longer relevant to stories of the sun or moon, just that the collection of myths that got written down stop featuring him. 3. Compare this story with Orpheus and the Underworld or Sodom and Gomorrah. The main story features of each myth, of descending to a place where the protagonist is not meant to be, of seeking a prize but not being allowed to look upon it and looking upon it and having the prize ripped from you, they are all similar enough to imply that there is some older Ur-myth that was popular when the ancestors of these cultures still talked to each other and shared stories. It gives us a peek into what our culture might have been like before agriculture.
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  17. Suryavarman II then told Legolas how to climb elephants too, it's a useful skill
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  18. "Reservations? Nah. I am sitting Bull, not sitting Duck!"
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  19. Oh so THAT'S where Games Workshop got inspiration for the Siege of Vraks from! And the Death Korps of Krieg, but one thing at a time, no?
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  20. I spent 12 years in the US Navy (08-20), and am currently in the Navy Reserves and of all the badasses of naval history I have had to learn about in that time, I have never before heard of anything as metal as an XO writting orders in his own blood
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  21. But his soul goes marching on
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  22. Making booby traps inside their own house? Those guys were the grandfather and great uncle of Kevin, from Home Alone!
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  23. god i love how i use you guys to tell what day it is
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  24. I wonder if those siege had any part in inspiring Tolkien’s writing about the siege of Minas Tirith. Such a fascinating and complex story.
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  25. I love the art style in these videos. The little scene where Temujin slides up behind the throne was great.
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  26. A quote to live by: you can greatly admire and be inspired by a person's works and yet still know when to call them out on the questionable conventions they name their cats by
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  27. Hypatia would be a great person to sit down and drink some tea.
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  28. Can you imagine if we'd had the Creative Commons, MIT, Apache, and other "public but still copyrighted" agreements at that time. Like ones that require later contributors to also adopt the "public" licensing. Or if we didn't have a For-Profit Prolong Suffering Industry in America.
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  29. Doom Otter! Otter of Doom!
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  30. MaidenCorp That's actually a very clever observation. It makes me wish historians would note the media's influence in modern historical more often.
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  31. I love M C Escher. Best rapper ever. I hear he also did some painting stuff, wonder if those'll catch on some day.
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  32. We’ll watch a video on polls, but will we Pokémon Go to the polls?
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  33. “...They come seeking more Extra Credits videos...”
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  34. Don't worry, we didn't forget to finish Ned Kelly's story. Join us next week for the "Lies" episode we know you've been waiting for!
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  35. I love that you guys used a códice style, thanks for using your high quality video making to teach the myths of my country.
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  36. 7:00 I guess this would be a question for Lies at the end, what's been the hardest series to research due to either a lack of written sources or something more exotic like information being burned? (this also came up in the Akhenaten video.) Unrelated but the last time you said "all of that stuff before was the simple part" we got a Walpole meme, so this ought to be good.
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  37. Now that everyone is well and vaccinated, something like this shouldn't be able to happen again on such a massive scale. ... Right? ....Right?
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  38. I would like to see you do a mythology episode on Irish culture
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  39. "And as he died to make men Holy, let us die to make men Free."
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  40. I'm a Chinese student who came to study in America in the midwest. And this was taught to me during schooI, and the teacher even taching us that the unfaire treatment of American Indians was a shameful page in the American hsitory. I was pleasantly surpised to see America is willing to teach about its past wrongs and make some amends, something I was extensively taught in China that America doesn''t do.
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  41. As someone who always enjoys the lesser known stories of WW2, this series is going to be a banger
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  42. I know this episode plays on Indiana Jones but that opening to a castle got me feeling more for Wolfenstein for a brief second
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  43. I'm surprised, given the caveat about the bias of sources you started the episode with, that you didn't mention the more colorful aspects of Joan's introduction to Charles. In addition to the more 'traditional' tests, the record says that Charles dressed in disguise at their first meeting and Joan was able to identify him as the Dauphin despite insistence he was just a courtier, and after her death Charles said that she had known secrets about him that he'd only told God in prayer. Regardless of how accurate these accounts are, or how much they really indicate supernatural interference, it does seems likely that Charles had much more reason to believe and support Joan than just "she's a virgin and her beliefs are orthodox so what's the worst that could happen?," and it seems odd to omit that aspect entirely.
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  44. So you could say...they built that city on rock and knolls. I'll show myself out.
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  45. The fact that we still call them "third parties" says all you need to know about American party lines
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  46. I feel like Fredrick was born in the wrong time because it seems like he would get really into grand strategy games
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  47. Love him, but racist as hell. Read all his works too. Really is the foundation of my favorite game, Bloodborne
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  48. At 27 seconds from release, the video had 27 likes. Neat.
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  49. Well, we finally are going to start with non-euclidian geometry three episodes in. I see it's not an easy matter to dwell in without a lot of background, isn't it?
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  50. Everybody know how it will end. Either Great Khan fleeing from new vegas or immortalized by suicidal attack on Hover Dam.
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