Comments by "Fred Bloggs" (@fredbloggs5902) on "The History Chap" channel.

  1. Nigel Green also played Michael Caine’s (temporary) boss in ‘The Ipcress File’. Zulu turned Caine into a star overnight, so he was the lead in Ipcress just a year later.
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  2. Blondie Hasler also originated the idea of the Single-handed Transatlantic Race and competed in it (the 1960 and 1964 OSTAR) in his junk-rigged yacht ‘Jester’.
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  3. Charles Dance could play Spicer-Simson.
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  4.  @TheHistoryChap Yes, he also came 5th in the 1964 race. The junk rig has poor upwind performance so he had to take the much longer trade-wind route rather than the more upwind direct route. He also pioneered the idea of a self-steering mechanism for yachts, variants of which are still in use today.
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  5. During the making of African Queen everyone got ill apart from Bogart and Houston who only drank whisky or bottled beer. (Although this has been claimed to be just a story by them to poke fun at Hepburn).
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  6. Charles Dance could play Spicer-Simson.
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  7. Can you please provide your sources for these great anecdotes?
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  8. The channel BritishMuzzleloaders has covered the Zulu wars in-depth from a weaponry POV.
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  9. https://youtube.com/c/britishmuzzleloaders
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  10. I think ‘The King’ (2019) was pretty good, but how accurate was it? What did they get wrong?
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  11. Just ignore the out-of-period helicopter!
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  12. A Senior NCO, similar to a Sergeant Major or Warrant officer.
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  13. Have to wonder if the character is based on a real person known to the writers?
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