Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "The Great War" channel.

  1. "No way, José." –John Pershing
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  2. Blücher! (neigh)
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  3. My dad once took a class at Occidental College that was taught by Alexander Kerensky. The past is not that long ago.
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  4. The great irony of the First World War is that it went on much longer than anyone imagined, then ended way faster than anyone planned for.
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  5. Fun fact: the last Dodgers-Red Sox World Series was during World War I.
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  6. And on the Palestine Front.
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  7. I am disappointed by the lack of mention that Hemingway once ate his way out of a sandwich house.
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  8. Two weeks ago I visited Merom Golan and watched the battlefield on the Syrian side. The last time I'd been there I was barely old enough to drink and the war began days later. Now the war is ending. It always feels weird.
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  9. He hasn't been back since the invention of plastic waste...
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  10. Rumors have it the Americans are going to try dropping soldiers into Metz from airplanes. What a world...
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  11. Oskar Niedermeyer was later resurrected by the US Army and killed by his own men in Vietnam.
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  12. February 1919: US prepares to drop soldiers into Metz by parachute!
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  13. Marion Cotillard sent me here.
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  14. I understand the instinct, but that's kinda like calling medieval England the United Kingdom.
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  15. I'm watching this on the Palestine Front.
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  16. The Egyptians came in in the mid-19th century...
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  17. Must've been last week, when they put out a new album.
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  18. I'm an Oleh, I know. But it's still Beersheba in English, same as we pronounce Paris as ['pæ.ɹɪs] instead of [pa.'ʁi].
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  19. Just wait for the comment section to catch up.
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  20. Second biggest now that Ashdod has passed it up.
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  21. June 28, 1918, my grandma was born.
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  22. It made his ears burrrrn.
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  23. 5:54 DANGER ZONE!
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  24. In history, it's customary to use placenames relevant to the time period. Beersheba was (and still is) the accepted name in English, Arabic, and Turkish.
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  25. Germans specifically or everyone? The UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Israel were against it. The PM of Italy said he loved Germany so much that there should be two of them. Most western world leaders of that era were WWII veterans or of that generation. That said, once Communism collapsed in East Germany, reunification was inevitable, because West Germans considered Easterners to be citizens of the Federal Republic by default, and the Easterners were quite happy about that.
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  26. Blucher! (neigh)
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  27. ONE LAST TIME
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  28. (cue Russian troll brigade claiming that Russia won everything even though it's the wrong war)
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  29. Hopefully Rawlinson responded "no more trenches."
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  30. Blucher! (neigh)
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  31. Surprised he didn't mention it with the concept of splitting the British from the French.
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  32. ...And here comes Ho Chi Minh.
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  33. Holy shit I was just in Jerusalem today. Ended up walking along the top of the old city wall. By accident. Weird day.
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  34. HERE COMES RAWLINSON
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  35. That's the only way I've heard it pronounced by native English speakers, even in (Jewish) Sunday school.
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  36. Then I shall rename it Edward!
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  37. Fun fact: the Battle of Tabsor is the only interesting thing that has ever happened in Raanana.
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