Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "" video.

  1. 10:33 - Also, longitude was far from easy to calculate accurately back then, meaning that they could have easily ended up seizing a piece of the Spanish Caribbean, possibly at great cost in blood and treasure, and gone to all the trouble of building a meridian observatory on it, only to find that, oops, they grabbed the wrong longitude.
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  2. 5:55 - Nitpick: what King Henry wanted (and eventually got, no thanks to the Pope) was an annulment, not a divorce. An annulment voids the marriage retroactively (so that the parties to the annulled marriage are legally considered to have never been married in the first place); a divorce ends the marriage but does not void it (so that the parties to the divorced marriage are legally considered to have previously been married, but to no longer be married at the present time). Having his first two marriages annulled until one of the wives produced a persistent male heir allowed him to disinherit his elder daughters in favour of his (eventual) younger son (not that it prevented either of said daughters from winding up with the throne in due course anyway); his last two annulments were for other reasons (annulment three happened because it just didn't work out, although they remained close friends until he died, while annulment four happened because the female party was cheating on him).
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  3. 2:31 - Not to be confused with the Siberian year, which is a measure of GULAG prisoners' sentence lengths.
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