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  1. 4:50 I'm such a big nerd that I named all these Pokemon as they popped up, without thinking :P
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  2. I think this was one of the better books I had to read while in high school. But also one of the hardest to analyze. There were just so many themes to write about.
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  3. On the notion of redemption and non-violence, the famous Ashura statue at Kofukuji temple in Nara, Japan is another great story and worthy of a mythology episode, imho.
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  4. I think they use different artists for the one-off type episodes
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  5. The "Legion of Hell," from what information I've found on them, didn't start out as bandits or outlaws. They were men who lived on the Venezuelan plains that were used to life on horseback, a people that were more or less left to their own devices, owing no loyalty to the Spanish or the Republicans. They were recruited into the war against the Second Republic and became (initially) a 4,000 strong lance cavalry division. Much of the success of the Spanish Royalists against the Republicans during this war is attributed to the Legion as their charges more or less broke Republican forces everywhere they met them. They were so effective that in the future struggle for Venezuelan independence, the Republicans under Bolivar would end up recruiting them for their cause. So to write them off as bandits or outlaws is kind of a disservice to their effectiveness as a fighting force. That's not to say that their methods weren't brutal though. Everywhere they went, civilian rapes, massacres, and all kinds of atrocities followed. I think there were more like the ancient Huns, since they relied on spears and charges, rather than the Mongols since Mongol tactics revolved more around the use of their superior horse archers and feigned retreats.
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  6. Can we talk about well the writers and narrator do their jobs? Last episode's and today's openings honestly gave me chills
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  7. is it me or they are some Space Jam references during this video?
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  8. I’d love a deeper analysis! Anything to help me become a better author and story teller. You guys do a great job of presenting information in an easily understandable way.
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  9. Always found the non-broken, regular tulips to be prettier. Rows and rows of deeply coloured tulips!
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  10. "Beer! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!" -Homer Homer Simpson
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  11. I'm fairly active in the disability rights community today, and most people I work with are opposed to terms like "different bodies" or "differently abled" because of a) the obscuring of atrocities against disabled people as a socially-defined class, as the original commenter noted, but also because of b) the tendency to use euphemisms for our lives and experiences, and the implication with them that disability itself is something that requires obfuscation or shame.
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  12. If you don't allow the train to stop and eat breakfast it will eventually become enraged and start attacking the townspeople out of Hanger. Always feed your locomotive.
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  13. Another interesting story is that Jamuka tried to summon a blizzard against Genghis Khan's forces during the final battle, but the spirits were angered by him and blew the wind right back at him.
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  14. Weasel Stank would be a great name for a rock band.
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  15. Fascinating bit of history here. So glad that, in spite of the clear desire for the accolades and fame, they did their best to make sure it would be as accessible as possible to the patients who desperately needed it. A pity the medical industry at large doesn't follow suit.
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  16. 8:46 Great to see that Clara knew when to put her foot down even with all her saintly patience. You guys are the best! Every week i look forward to your amazing content and this has certainly show that those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it. Keep up the amazing work! :trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling:
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  17. HYPE!
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  18. Just the opening scene to this video gave me chills. Well done Extra Credits👌
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  19. What did we learn? Hats are grapes and that peaches are the best weapons and should always have some with you. EDIT: Thanks for the <3 EDIT 2: 75 likes?! Thanks so much! I never even had 10!
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  20. The parallels to Animal House are impressive. Sylvanus Thayer is your Dean Wormer, Hitchcock is Niedermayer, and playing the role of Bluto Blutarsky is Jeff Davis.
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  21. I love it when historical discussions like this cover how dynasties engage in mythmaking to legitimize their right to rule.
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  22. Remember how the Gracchi brothers broke the Roman republic by not following the unwritten rules... So yes, this is important.
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  23. It’s peak geek, and absolutely peek geek engineer.
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  24. I learned about the Irish war for independence through the film "The wind that shakes the Barley" and it's one of the very few movies that reduces me to a wet snotty bawling mess. I love the added context by EH.
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  25. This is one I HAVE read. I bet that Zoey particularly enjoyed "A Dream of a Thousand Cats".
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  26. Aliester Crowley had always been my favorite mysterious figure. I am so glad you guys finally mentioned and told story of him at last.
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  27.  @vrixphillips  Ellison would rise from the grave to sue them
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  28. An injection of wholesomeness straight into my eyeballs 😊
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  29. Iran? The name of Persia was changed to Iran in 1935 during the Pahlavi Dynasty.
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  30. But that wasn't love that the man who the monster idolized held for the woman in the story; it was lust. Love desires yes, but it also sets free what you yearn for and is willing to give not take. The woman already had a partner, already was in love, and this man from out of nowhere tries to inject himself into the partnership to take the woman from that individual who she desires. What he goes through is an act of selfishness and is the exact opposite of all that love stands for. A better example of what love is and what it demands is in Dracula where Quincey Morris, a foreigner who represented all that was good and noble in the American cowboy, who had lost the chance at engagement to Lucy, and who had nothing more compelling him to continue forth and end Dracula's hold on Mina and put and end to the monster, ends up willing giving his life to drive his Bowie knife into Dracula's heart putting and end to the fiend. His last words make this so clear the price and nature of love: "Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!"
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  31. The preface from the video about the dream time was awesome! Past, present and future all together in the dream realm.. it makes you think, shall we see each other today, tomorrow or yesterday? Always love both the history episodes and mythology ones. Always teaching and always finding something that stroke a cord in your self. Ps: how about try a few myths from the south Americas?
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  32. time travels to the past "Brother, have you heard of Non-Fungible Tulips? They're the next best thing bought with the superior windmill powered currency, Dutchcoin!".
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  33. Question: How come so many myths take place in a bathroom with plumbing? Between this and Hanako-san (or kun) I wonder why these myths started in a place where the worse thing you would see is a toilet that someone forgot to flush. (Maybe that last part could of answered my own question...)
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  34. What you've said here is basically what I tell people in STEM vs. STEAM debates.  Without art science, technology, engineering and math eventually become tech for tech's sake.  Including art in the curriculum introduces the human element, making tech for people.
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  35. I'm really sad you didn't mention the"Food of the Gods", my favorite out of Wells' works. I enjoy it so much because it emphasises a really hard and almost unanswerable dilemma: What if the very existence of a group of people means the inevitable damnation of society as we know it and the decendents of the practically all the people in it? What should be done?
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  36. I love these episodes Especially because they don’t seem to be talked about in depth as much
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  37. I'm not sure if this is a mainstream opinion, but the narriative elements and daily life episode of this series helped make this my favourite extra history so far. Keep up the good work :)
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  38. Any time the term Blood Oaths are mentioned, you know this is going to be good.
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  39. I loved this series and can't wait for it to come back but i also cant wait for extra mythology this is so exciting
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  40. Fame, Recognition, and Fortune. Some of many reasons why humanity may never know progress among its good and talented men and women… 😔
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  41. More games could use this "I know you'll make the right choice, Max!" [Sacrifice Chloe] [Sacrifice Arcadia Bay] [Hey, a Beach Ball! :)]
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  42. For Democracy!! :_ExtraEmojiHeart::_ExtraEmojiShiny:
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  43. Fun fact about Carlsberg: Jacobsen the founder, was obsessed with making Bavarian beer, but the yeast was impossible to get in Denmark. So the story goes that he went to Bavaria and bought some yeast and hid it in his hat with ice. Every hour he would have to get off the train and change the ice. People will do a lot for beer. Or so the story goes
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  44. Oh excellent, you did decide to elaborate on the bottle-throwing war!
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  45. There's an argument to be made that the glut of "Isekai," or "other world," stories that have been coming out of Japan for the past five years or so are the descendants of cyberpunk. Lots of them even follow Sword Art Online and .//hack's premise of characters being transported from real life into a video game or a world based on a video game.
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  46. The academic interplay between Extra History and my collegiate courses I’ve been taking these past 3 years has been so helpful and such a wonderful coincidence
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  47. One sad thing is that, just like in the United States. Brazilian history classes never focuses on what exactly was going on the rest of the continent, Only the broad strokes, Garibaldi himself is never even mentioned on most states, the rebellion itself is told as a "oh yeah this happened, moving on" Extra History is amazing for going shallow enough that most people understand what happened while at the same time making those interested for it to go deeper. Thank you all for this great content
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  48. I lost it when the drunken threat was delivered exactly like you'd expect a drunk person to sound like.
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  49. Good episode, but what bugs me is that it skips over the lead up to before this. The context of who the Clantons are and the cowboys, to not talking about Wyatt earp’s previous law experience in Dodge City. There’s so much information that’s skipped over, so people new to hearing about it don’t get the full picture or why the clantons are so dangerous. And why the Earps are experienced law men.
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  50. 0:15 everybody poops NO EXCEPTIONS
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