Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. lot of info packed in 10+ mins. Drink a lot of espresso that day did ya?
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  2. too bad you didnt use your phones cameras instead of internet
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  3.  @nikolausluhrs  : Ah, I see. Cheers.
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  4. Maybe an episode on the origin of the star forts all over the place. Who invented them? Da Vinci? Chinese?
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  5. The casting for Tombstone was amazing. They looked so like their roles.
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  6. There are some who argue that the Syriac text the Peshitta in Aramaic has primacy over Roman Greek or Latin versions. George Lamsa chief among such. Others argue its the other way round.
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  7. Wonder if Northrup had a laugh about this incident.
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  8. " needed to be defeated and subjugated"? Think that should've been qualified with "the US government and Army believed . ."
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  9. dont think I could endure sitting around in a hall whose accents theme was purple and white.
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  10. Not exactly "buried" . . entombed, yeah
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  11. One interesting clue Lamsa's claim is true is the parable regarding a "camel through the eye of a needle". In the Aramaic the word for rope is very close to the word for camel. The difference is a tiny mark over a letter. It is unlikely to imagine putting a camel through a needle's eye. A rope can be unraveled and threaded through by tortuous labour. The mistranslation makes more sense going from Aramaic to Greek.
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  12. brilliant
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  13. I think malty is a sixth taste. Not sweet, sour, salty or bitter nor umami
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  14. So this Sibley related to H.H. Sibley of Sibley tent fame?
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  15. Probably the neatest summation of the evolution of both Holmes and Watson and criminology yet.
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  16. Royal R. Rife is believed to be the first microscopist to photograph a virus.
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  17. Poor Jefferson, saddled with both those thorns in his side. On another note, please do one on Robert Rogers and George Clinton.
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  18. yan keys or yawn kees?
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  19. sad
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  20. Couldnt find a single photo of a Robertson screw or driver?
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  21.  @nikolausluhrs  What do you mean there's not? There's lots.
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  22. I recall when our central library got a new manager/head librarian. She kept an entire wall of phone books, but consigned the National Union Catalogue to microfiche, the actual volumes being sent to some religious school. I hated her for it. There is no comparison to handling actual books and letting one's eyes roam the pages where one may happen serendipitously upon some unsought but treasurable reference. The money-crofiche was often out of focus, blurred iows, backwards, etc. Yeah, I hated her and the others supporting that for that. Later they gutted the old treasure, remade it in their own image. The old ambience erased, destroyed forever.
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  23. "Scholar's mate."
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  24.  @jdinhuntsvilleal4514  : Ah, well, maybe, if you were black, it was Fool's mate.
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  25. Cant find national average of paint and glass beads used to mark lanes, but deriving from Pennsylvania and simply multiplying by 50, approx. 80,000,000 gallons of paint constitute our national paint coverage and 275 tons of reflector beads. No idea how far off that est. is.
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  26. Some old photos convince me our estimate of population back when must be wrong. Could be a unique effect bellows cameras, still . . . dont see crowds quite like those.
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  27. I remember being surprised at finding a piece of steel that wasn't magnetic. Austenitic steel.
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  28. Do one on underground city in Seattle.
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  29. Interesting.
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  30.  @wolski45  :   Funnily enough, my comment was after having just seen a short docu about Northrup's Flying Wing. Here is the link I watched, is it the same one? Excellent programme.  https://youtu.be/Ui_o257DZE0
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  31. Maybe you'll do an episode on The Turk now.
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  32. Los Alamos only compare face shapes? Because other than that and maybe hair style, the eyes are nothing alike. Ethel has open and rounded eyes, the other woman has almond, Spanish eyes.
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  33. The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered  : Also note "Etta"'s eyes are evenly parallel, while Bassett's eyes are not, her right is clearly higher than the left. Bassett has no lips and theyre flat. Ethel's are sigmoid. I just find the characters at Los Alamos embarrassing by associating that Institution to such an obvious failure of facial recognition. They are not the same person.
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  34. He wont be so completely forgotten now thanks to you. Very interesting man. Maybe you could do a piece on the "White House Gunfighters", friends of Teddy Roosevelt, Masterson, Garrett and Ben Daniels.
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  35. Rockefeller tried to off him several times
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  36. Have you covered the largest log cabin in the world that was part of the Lewis and Clark Expo in Portland, Oregon?
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  37. The Cry and the Covenant. Excellent biography.
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  38. 87 yards long, just 13 odd feet short of a football field. Huge!
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  39. What's easier to say: "One foot" or "30.48 centimeters" ? I hate metric.
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  40. Just read in the bibliography of Jack London stories, Tales of Adventure, his first hand account of the "Hobo Wars". Have you covered that or could you?
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  41. It was actually the railroad vs hoboes conflict.
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  42. That one small point: he was willing to surrender, but not to just one lone man. So how did that envoy broach this to his superior? Would he lie to get the materiel moving, or tell him the plain truth and hope the comradeship of machismo and bravado would garner a sympathetic response?
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  43. Our domino set was "fake ivory" celluloid.
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  44. A friend once was involved with microficheing public records, in Portland, Oregon. The documents were then thrown in dumpsters. Some were hand written with the city's historic personalities signatures, gold leaf embossed seals, etc. Stupid. He did rescue some of it.
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  45. Btw, the History Guy is a national treasure. Very grateful for his work.
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  46. Portland's first (1952) and oldest independent station was KPTV ch. 12. Unfortunately, it got bought by murdoch who murdered it as it was.
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  47. It had affiliations before it became indie.
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  48. Ok, then explain how Fred, Barney, Betty and Wilma's TVs worked then? Huh? Yeah, guess you forgot that part of history.
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  49. I've seen birds that resembled passenger pigeons twice since learning of them. Both times in Oregon. I was very excited. Never told anyone 'til now.
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  50. By the way, not sure "profligate" was the word, but prolific.
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