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  1.  @FistoftheSnackBar  And now you're hoping it isn't tomorrow. So as the boy who cried wolf, you'll never know if that "tomorrow" is the actual "tomorrow"
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  2. Holy Jesus, this episode was intense! Cannons over sleds and shooting from windows, barricades in every narrow street, A captain escaping a point blank shot towards the face, snow hiding the ground, an officer being shot after ordering the enemy's surrender... Stalingrad is the immediate image inside the mind, seeing this.
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  3. Hi! I've been a massive fan of your show for years now and you're a big part of why I decided to go back to university and become an academic. My upcoming PhD is actually in the social funtions of taverns so I'd be really interested to see your reading list for this fantastic episode, as you touch on lot of similiar themes. Keep up the great work all and best wishes for the future! :)
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  4. You guys are the reason why I want to be a history teacher
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  5. I ordered Frankenstein, read it and loved it. Now I'm about to order The Belonging Kind because it just speaks to me so directly. Thank you guys for opening my eyes to (semi)-classic literature!
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  6. I kinda really wanna watch an Extra History Wrestling league now. You could you make an EH Rumble in a WWE game, in the same vein as the Jerma Rumble. Y'know, get all the EH favourites in on it, like Bismark and Walpole? Maybe we'll see Stalin vs. Washington or Kruschev vs. Hamilton? I dunno, silly idea, but I think it would be fun.
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  7. Easily the worst part about this is watching all of the cute EH horses getting cut down by arrows. :(
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  8. Been a huge fan of you guys since the beginning! Love to see how the EC team has branched out into so many different subject types, urban lore is so fascinating and underappreciated. Thanks for sharing!
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  9. 8 kids in a row?! RIP whoever had to change those diapers 💀
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  10. Perfectly sounds like "spooky action."
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  11. I loved the “wizard battle” that ended with the ice king using his nunchucks. Wait that was adventure time.
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  12. 7:47 I'm glad I cheated: that sloth was the cutest ^^ Also, loving all the NFT puns. Keep up with the good work, lads. Edit: at least the Dutch went crazy over some really pretty flowers. Those awful computer-generated monkeys are an affront to humanity.
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  13. A traveling circus of insane tooth pullers is the greatest Assassin's Creed villain I didn't know I needed.
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  14. Yeah how dare Frederick actually achieve success in a crusade without it costing tonnes of lives and money.
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  15. You should compile a list of all the sci-if books we (as huge sci-if fans) should read in your opinion. Should we read every book you mention or are there a select few that we should focus on. I’m talking about all sci-fi books even, possible especially, the weird and obscure books most people will not have heard of.
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  16. yeah i think it's safe to say we need more on-the-camera matt
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  17. In case anyone was curious, at 2:15 that says "Am I not your brother?" And I think it's interesting that they used the specifically singular and familiar version of "your" too
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  18. If anyone's interested in knowing more about how bot farms weaponize different social media platforms, Destin Sandlin of the SmarterEveryDay YouTube channel's done quite a number of videos on disinformation campaigns on YouTube, Reddit, etc. It's quite insidious. (Note that he did that project a few years ago now and the strategies have no doubt evolved since then.)
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  19. This sounds like it’s going to be a very fun series
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  20. Guys, can I caption this in Spanish? I want to share it with my friends! But some of them don't speak English.
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  21. These anti-Universities riots mentioned at 5:50 were really bonkers. A HistoryTuber M. Laser made good videos about the Medieval History of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, describing them in more detail. I know that I've recommended this particular channel a couple of times here already but you really seem to have an affinity for similar topics (including the history of hopped beer, which I mentioned previously).
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  22. Nothing signifies "Engineer" better than thinking about everything except something as practical as that ;)
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  23. As a technician who works on things Engineers designed with the assumption no one would ever have to actually fix their product, I can confirm that something like building your car wider than the entrance to your barn is 100% in line with an Engineer's concept of spatial awareness.
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  24. Jac has some great boots there. Next True Lies: all about fashion footwear. It's an under discussed topic.
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  25. Saint Nicholas’ feast day is still celebrated on December 6th today by many people. I grew up Catholic and my family would give small gifts to each other and kids would leave out shoes for chocolate coins. Major gift giving was still left for Christmas, but the two holidays aren’t quite the same still.
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  26. I read this book freshman year of high school, and it’s stuck with me to this day. It’s some powerful stuff.
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  27. I came from alternate history hub :)! And like what i see.
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  28. Anyone who grew up in Michigan probably has been to the Henry Ford museum. We all took field trips there as kids and had a blast in Greenfield village. But Ford is the specter that haunts it. Knowing that he had such terrible demons that led him to lash out at the world sours the experience to a degree.
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  29. Italian here, I just wanted to compliment this channel for teaching more about Garibaldi than our own Italian school does. We learn what he did after a certain point, but a lot of his life is left out (like his time in South America). I never knew about his wife. I am so hapy to see how you'll tell the rest of the story, hopefully you'll also spend some time to teach about the best unknown national hero, Camillo Benso. That man was the true mastermind behind Italy's unification!
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  30. Paddington and Oedipus, such an iconic duo.
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  31. Frederick II was the only Italian Holy Roman Emperor
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  32. Love this so much, this actually inspired me to look further into West African music
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  33. episode opens WOOO GAY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈
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  34. This channel is what got me into classic/older literature like HP Lovecraft And Ray Bradbury, thank you!
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  35. "Romeo and Juliet" is to romance what "Les Misérables" is to revolution.
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  36. I only have 2 things to say: 1: It's so sad that the Health Care in America is so expensive people would rather flee from ambulances than to get treatment 2: I am so grateful to live in Europe
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  37. 3:43 female wild boar, to be precise (and originally written "jabalina"); weird enough (well, not so), it's the same word usen for "javelin", that spear that's used as a throw implement in track-and-field along with the hammer and the shot. Another reason not to feed wild pigs and boars is that doing so encourages them to come back with reinforcements, and they are very dangerous (not only are they lumps of pure muscle with the temper of a hurricane, if you have the bad luck to very intimately meet one that's trying to cross the road, chances are high your vehicle is now scrap, and pray that you haven't been hurt or worse).
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  38. I'm interested in starting a discussion: what topics do you think are not taught enough or even explored? Coming from an American angle, I think the Japanse occupation and Pacific resistance to the occupation, Byzantine history, Australian colonization, Bengal famine, and early North American exploration are good examples.
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  39. The horses look like plushies. It's great!
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  40. This is symbolic fight of water over land. How a river or glacier once part of ocean continously carve out part of mountains. You can see this every monsoon in the landslides caused by massive rains every summer. For mountain its a loosing battle. That princess should have been handed over to ocean.
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  41. Congratulations on 3 million! That means I am 0.000033% of the subscribers on this channel. For some context, if EH was a country it would be the 138th most populated one! Bigger than Albania, Lithuania, Qatar, or Jamaica! Not combined
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  42. Hi. I am a Mexican living in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). I am a bit confuse. Here in mexico we are teaching that the Aztecs were nomads walking around Mexico trying to found their promised land. They started their long walk in the mythical city of Aztlan. But I never heard about that princes being sacrificed. I read that in one of the most reliable sources of the Pre-Hispanic times: historia general de las cosas de la nueva españa from Bernardino de Sahagún. The book is super huge, like two bibles, but is very interesting, I recommend you that book guys.
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  43. Then lets keep fucking doing it! Preserve the world!
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  44. This is one of the reasons why I've long since desired collegial power and proportional and consensus systems, mainly single transferable vote, score voting, and the proportional form of score voting, reweigted score voting. In Ireland for example, in a five seat multi member district, if there were 60 thousand votes cast, you only need to win 10,001 votes to win (once five candidates have reached this quota, it is impossible for any other candidate to win) They are bigger than single member districts of course, allowing you to find many more people of similar beliefs and desires as you even if they make up only maybe a fifth of the electorate, a key factor that makes independents win in the Dail Eirann. And only about a fifth of candidates were elected in the first count of the votes, most need to have transfer votes from eliminated candidates (those who got the fewest votes and weren't popular enough to win a seat) and from the excess ballots from candidates who have met the quota. This makes it a very bad idea to alienate people. It's hard to say only I can solve problems, because you are only capable of getting 1/3-1/5 of the seats in the district, you will work at a minimum with other people in the same district, and nearly invariably this involves opposition or independent members,o and even members of the same party that competed against you for votes due to the ranking system. You also have an incentive to work with other members of the same alliance to help promote each other so as to get at least one of you elected, if you can't, you'll still get a decent life and usually some influence in the party, like organizing crucial roles, and may be selected to run in the next election if you prove to be decently popular even if you came up short. Political parties that are similar enough to current ones but under fresh leadership, they can pretty easily pop into existance, and can attract many of the guinea votes who otherwise would have been firmly stuck one way or another, having to choose between two similar options for them rather than one that you knew for a long time would be basically the only party or movement or person you wanted to choose. It's a much smaller risk, and you can focus on a group of supporters rather than trying to please an absolute majority or even plurality with promises you can't keep to any one of them. I also have disliked the US's focus on a singular president for a long time, and same with the senate where you only really have one up at any given time. I have been more favourable to collegial power via parliamentary, Swiss, and cooperative structures (such as trade unions, cooperatives, and commune boards of directors). There is not a big risk in losing by a small percentage, and even a president who wins in a two round system with an absolute majority will still be a second choice to many, which is not ideal. Confidence and supply deals and coalitions, cabinets, the ability to sack a prime minister or cabinet minister even if the party in general is popular without being accused of a coup d'etat, that's a very useful property in my opinion. This also applies for non state entities, which I believe are better at providing for what we really need and want instead of governments and should be promoted as an alternative. When you have a singular leader, you risk a lot. They may be arrested, they might be killed, inoculously or not, They might be censored, and it can be hard to remove cults of personality around them. It's far better to spread the risk out.
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  45. So Temujin Khan committed genocide against the Tatars and then against his own people to solidify his position as their leader and then he successfully defeated his last rivals for the rulership of the Mongols. This was foreshadowing what was to come with his reign as the Khan of all the Mongols.
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  46. Thanks for Watching Everyone!
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  47. Thanks for posting this! I’d heard a lot of positive and negative things about this book, but had never really understood its significance before. This was a really concise look that covered all the bases. God bless you!
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  48. The intro scene could totally be on the start of an Extra Mythology episode about Chinese Ghosts. Spooky!
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  49. 3:54 Even as an American, I felt a little pang of sadness when the Canadians, who had been working so hard and so long, realized that the only way to move forward was to bring the Americans in on it
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  50. Thank you for explaining the French-British alliance switch for the Seven Years’ War. So many history channels have just mentioned it as a funny thing that happened without elaborating
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