Youtube comments of James Clendon (@jamesclendon4811).

  1. I'm obsessed with this story and watch every video I can find about it. In my opinion, this one is the very best. Excellent job.
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  2. Having read the comments, I'm not just surprised that Vespasian is the favorite emperor of so many people, but that so many people even HAVE a favorite emperor.
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  3. And finally it was the doctors who killed him. Figures.
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  4. I'm a year late, but I don't care. I've become a real obsessive about this story--I'm sure I've seen at least 50 videos about it. This is only the second comment I've read that understands the first comment the boy makes: I THINK his exact words are: "Backpacks--you bring come inside?" He clearly says "inside," but every news reporter assumed he would be asking if they could out, so they chose to hear it as "outside" and then just made up the rest of the quote. I assumed they must have food in the backpacks, but a quite good book about the rescue says there was water, but no food. This is the first comment that points out the cam/come confusion--I missed that. Thank you. Almost everyone, including diver Volanthen, misunderstood "What day?" too. The boy did NOT ask "What day is it?" They had a watch that was still working and the boys knew what day and time it was and how long they'd been in the cave. Adul was responding to the "Many people are coming...." with "What day?", meaning "When" are these people coming? Stanton understands it this way and responds "Tomorrow." Volanthen misunderstands, so a few minutes later Adul tries again and says "What day you come help me?" At first Volanthen misunderstands again, but finally realizes what he means and says "Tomorrow." I realize that at this point nobody cares about any of this except me, but I just wanted to say it anyway. Bless them all.
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  5. Absolutely. But there's a line we can hear in the longer version of the diver's video that breaks my heart completely. Apparently it's as the divers are preparing to leave: Adul says "See you tomorrow." After 10 days alone in the dark rescuers finally come, but now they're about to leave again. Will they really return tomorrow? Adul calmly, trustingly, bids them a polite goodbye. That, to me, most clearly shows the boys' bravery and strength of character. I think partly it's being Thai. (I would say being Buddhist, but Adul was the only Christian in the group!) I'm not sure kids from other countries would have handled this encounter with such grace and courageous acceptance.
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  6. I'm sure the new furniture and decor weren't cheap, as some posters suggest. And "bad taste" is so subjective (and pretentious) as to be meaningless as a criticism. Any comparisons to IKEA are just foolish. BUT...I think in trying to be modern, the designers have gone for a design that is going to look very dated very quickly. I doubt they will be able to go another thirty years before they have to renovate again. The new look is very of-the-moment. I think they'd have been better off to stick with "timeless."
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  7. "Inspired by" would probably be a better description than "biography of."
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  8. It's those damned PETA people again, protesting the mistreatment of the elephants.
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  9. I think of Coolidge often. When it's suggested that the government should forgive all student loan debt I remember his reply to suggestions that the US should forgive foreign nations' debts from World War I: "They hired the money, didn't they?"
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  10. If only, if only more people finished watching videos before commenting!
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  11. ​ @燃えるようなバラード  I was enjoying this entertaining (though lunatic) argument, but you lost me with "we can forgive her because...of her husband getting arrested." Maybe WE can, but will the Lord? Seems to me that"...til death do us part" doesn't allow for exceptions to be made because of mere incarceration. That's not in the rules. I'm afraid both Spanish hussies have disqualified themselves and you're going to have to keep looking.
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  12. Of course they know. They paid solemn tribute to him several times, publicly and privately. They're kids. They don't have to dwell on that tragedy for the rest of their lives.
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  13. Only a joke for those too young to remember the Beatles. Ringo got his fair share of screams--he was enormously popular. Still is, for that matter.
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  14. Yeah, um, I watched the video.
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  15. Great how you're honoring the Thais' request for the media to leave the boys and their families alone for at least 30 days.
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  16. A happy ending for this house, which escaped the wrecking ball. I think it's significant that it probably survived because it was "repurposed." It serves as a museum, but not just a museum of its own magnificence, but as a venue for the display of some of the Smithsonian's collection. There's a limit on how many mansions can be saved as museums just to show off what one particular millionaire built to show off his wealth--some can (Biltmore House, the Newport "cottages", a few others) but beyond that these buildings need to serve some purpose for the modern day if they are to avoid being demolished as useless white elephants.
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  17. Happy to see that for all his pompous attitude he didn't get his two matching maps and there were in fact three tables, not two, in the temporary lobby.
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  18.  @thickpee1493  To be fair, speak for yourself.
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  19. Ари Фёдорович Welcome to YouTube. I've seen comments sections where as many as 25 people make identical comments. I guess they're so eager to see their name in print they can't be bothered to read other comments first. It drives me crazy.
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  20. Maybe this was just a more cynical viewpoint, but I often read that he thought that by paying his workers more they would then be able to afford to buy his cars. Thus he turned employees into potential customers.
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  21.  @constancemiller3753  Your professor was inept. The president does not sign constitutional amendments. Nor, in this case, does his wife. The president has no role in amending the constitution.
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  22.  @grantpiper1223  Yeah. I said that. Thank you for so graciously agreeing with me. Actually, though, not having seen the movie is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make, since I was not referencing the content of the movie, merely its title. And, to be fair, the only evidence you provided for your original theory was "I always thought that..." Evidence is something that is often in short supply in YouTube comment sections, much like manners.
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  23. In the "Andy Warhol Diaries," Warhol talks about going to a Prince concert and the after-party. Warhol was impressed with how polite Prince was, personally greeting every guest and thanking them for coming. Warhol's driver was a big Prince fan so Warhol brought him along--it was a high point of his life that Prince spoke to him, thanked him, called him by name and shook his hand. Maybe Prince changed later when he became more famous, but I'd like to think not.
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  24. He was also present in Buffalo at the Pan-American Exposition when McKinley was shot there, though not an eyewitness.
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  25.  @sunbeam8866  The story, apparently true, is that Ferris even wanted the pianos on the United States to be made out of aluminum, but Steinway refused. Instead they were made out of a fire-resistant mahogany, which Steinway demonstrated could be doused with gasoline and still wouldn't burn. The Conservancy that now owns the ship recently acquired one of the pianos, which is on display at Steinway Hall, in hopes it can one day be placed on display in a museum on the ship.
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  26. Absolutely. The story is very hard to follow, being just a series of mostly unfamiliar names. Maps would make a big difference.
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  27. Did you ever visit his house? One nice thing can be said about him: his house, Wheatland, is lovely.
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  28. Doesn't the current Thai king basically live in Germany? Certainly he spends most of his time there. (This is undisputed, I think, not rumor or gossip). The pandemic may have changed things--I don't know.
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  29. I love the fact that during the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne, when the would-be abductor ordered her out of the car, she responded "Not bloody likely," and ultimately exited out of the other side.
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  30. I believe every one of his videos has one or more deliberate errors for the sole purpose of drawing comments, and thus feeding the all-important algorithm. More comments=higher placement=more views=higher payment.
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  31. It's a shame he wasn't around 450 years later to treat President Garfield.
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  32. I think you missed the point. It didn't cost him the 1964 election--he won in a landslide. The Vietnam War caused him to withdraw from the 1968 election.
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  33.  @brett4264  There are probably a lot of others like me who are far more familiar with Lumumba than with 75% of the figures that people ask for. But then again I'm old: I was in school when he was in the news every day--for a while.
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  34. I guess you thought wrong. (New Netherland was the colony; New Amsterdam the city, now New York).
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  35. @Dog Faced Pony Soldier The cave did stink! That was how they were found. When the divers came out of the water the boys were up at the top of the slope, around the corner , out of sight. ( This video begins a few moments later, after the boys, hearing voices, came down). The divers sniffed the air and smelled what they assumed were dead bodies--they had little hope that the boys were still alive. The coach had dug a hole for use as a latrine, but after 10 days, with 13 people using it the smell was pretty rank. At that point that was the least of anyone's worries. They did, by the way, drink the water flowing at the bottom of the cave. They may have drunk some water dripping down the walls, but the story of them relying on that is a myth. (Source: "Against All Odds," by Dr. Richard Harris and Craig Challen). Another misconception: when the diver asked "How many are you," he already knew. They had counted the boys as they came down the slope. It was "Brilliant!," though!
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  36. You're 29 and you never knew Jefferson owned slaves? Don't try to blame your school. I don't care if you went to school in Mississippi or Alabama, if you've even heard of Jefferson but never knew he owned slaves until watching this video, pal, that's totally on you. Willful ignorance at best.
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  37. I wonder about that raising of hands too. My guess is that it was an issue of translation--either the translator or the boys misunderstood the question, asked in the negative--who didn't go in before, not who did go.
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  38. Wow! What a coincidence! It was 6 boys, and they were from Tonga, but I read about that just today, April 22, in the New York Times, in the obituary of Peter Warner, the Australian captain who happened upon them and rescued them after 15 months. An amazing story indeed, and I'm surprised I never heard it before--I guess the story was better known in Australia. It must be the same story, despite some details being a little different from your version, but the main point was the same as yours, how it differed from "Lord of the Flies," with which it was compared.The boys organized and cooperated and managed to thrive until their rescue. They'd been long since given up for dead and it was a national sensation in Tonga when they were recovered. Ironically, the owner of the boat they stole was not amused, and had them arrested. Their rescuer compensated him and they were released, and they worked on Warner's boat as crew for years afterwards.
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  39. The late record producer John Hammond was also a Vanderbilt. His mother was a great-granddaughter of the Commodore. Very famous in his day, he is credited with "discovering," or least being an early champion of, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and many, many more, including many renowned Jazz and Blues musicians. His son of a similar name, once a modestly famous blues musician, was, of course, also a Vanderbilt descendant.
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  40.  @irritated888  To expand on your comment, the "statistic" is bandied about that malaria has killed half of all the people who ever lived--in fact I read it just a few days ago in a list of "Amazing facts you never knew" or something like that. Apparently, though, that's a huge exaggeration, dating mainly from a 2002 article in Nature magazine. Exact numbers are impossible to come by, and estimates vary wildly, but a more sober and fairly credible estimate puts it closer to 5%--still a huge number, probably in the hundreds of millions, but a far cry from half.
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  41. Yes, he was already famous when he died, and became more famous afterwards, almost exactly the same as Otis Redding.
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  42. I think that's Spanky from the Little Rascals. I remember seeing that on TV when I was a kid.
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  43. Tom and Daisy Buchanan are two of the central characters in "The Great Gatsby." Maybe the name came from them. (But probably not).
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  44. That's one way of looking at it, and a rather ironic one. Jay Gould, the "founding father," is generally regarded as the most notorious and unscrupulous of the "Robber Barons" of his era. It's a long and complicated story, and it's probably unfair to judge him by modern standards, but as Wikipedia summarizes him: " an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the Robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial".
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  45. I suspect that so many are ill-informed because they simply don't care.
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  46. Relax. It's a TV show. Basically, it's showbiz. Don't you think it was structured so that there would be some drama, some conflict? Good guys versus bad guys?
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  47.  @pitakon  The only one to outlive her will be Keith Richards, and by then the line of succession will have reached down to him. Long live King Keith I.
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  48. An old riddle: What did the Deadhead say to the other Deadhead when the drugs ran out? Boy, this music sucks!
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  49. Reading the letters the boys and their parents wrote to each other, simple as they are, is heartbreaking. If the boys hadn't survived it would be completely unbearable to read them.
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  50.  @toughtittypdiddy4634  Why not Crazy Rich Asians too?
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  51. Would have. Could have. Should have. The problem is the work wasn't done 50 or 75 or100 years ago and the current owners have to deal with what's there now and today's problems. If they're very fortunate and very smart they'll try to deal with tomorrow's problems too, which previous owners never did.
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  52. Maybe others have mentioned this, but the building is currently closed while significant renovations take place. The project has been controversial (New York, after all) but the final plans shouldn't change the overall appearance too much. It is currently expected to reopen next year. Until then much of the art collection can be seen at the Frick Madison, in the onetime Whitney Museum building.
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  53. Actually, I don't think many people think he's exhausted all WW2 stories. It was a big war--I bet he can find enough stories to last him the rest of his life.
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  54. How appropriate. Their money came from railroads.
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  55.  @scottkoenig6326  50 or better? I remember the song (I've still got the single), but I'm 71, and believe me, it's not better. I'm surprised that no one that I've read (so far, at least) mentioned Edina's daughter Saffron (Saffy) on AbFab.
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  56. I love the look of this house. I hope you will also visit what is to me the most visually appealing of the surviving gilded age mansions--Westbury House/Old Westbury Gardens--on Long Island. It's beautifully maintained and open to the public. If the name doesn't ring a bell to some people they'll probably recognize it when they see it. It shows up frequently in movies and ads as the quintessential rich man's mansion, and I'm sure the fees those appearances generate contribute significantly to its upkeep.
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  57. I knew it was coming: I knew someone would see fit to call him underrated. Simon could do a bio of Jesus or Mohammad and someone would refer to them as underrated. Wellington was underestimated by Napoleon, yes, but beyond that he was as far from "underrated" as it was possible to be, and he remains so to this day. What do you think "underrated" means, anyway.
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  58. The Phipps Estate is Old Westbury Gardens, right? In my opinion the most beautiful of all. Familiar to many because of its use in movies and commercials, it's maintained in beautiful condition and open to the public. I'm surprised it has never been featured on this channel.
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  59. I saw that London exhibit too (I think it was 1972). A friend and I were on a two-month post-college backpacking tour of Europe. My experience was much like yours--we queued for a couple hours, not all day, but it was worth it. The exhibit came to New York (which is near to where I live) a few years later and was the hottest of hot tickets. People were paying scalpers hundreds of dollars for tickets. I felt so smug that I could say "Oh that old thing? I saw that in London a few years ago".
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  60.  @boomerhgt  Or a book. Some people still read books.
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  61. Thank you for your gibberish.
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  62.  Stellvia Hoenheim  Is that why you're so lonely and bitter?
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  63. Chris Parra Ever think of watching the video before posting a comment?
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  64. I get a big kick out of posts that are as spectacularly clueless as this one. Keep up the good work--we need all the laughs we can get.
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  65. Awkwardness would be the least of our problems.
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  66. I probably shouldn't reply, because I've never seen the film, but I remember when it came out, and I remember having the impression that one main reason that it was so disliked was the title. People didn't know what it meant and felt it was silly. I think it was hard to believe that a movie with such a dumb name could in fact be good. The title became something of a punchline, and by extension, the movie itself was regarded as a joke. I, of course, have no evidence to back this up.
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  67. Let us not forget Paul Getty, whose ear was famously removed by his kidnappers.
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  68. There's a line in E.L.Doctorow's novel "Ragtime" , (which references Nesbit et al) which I like. It's something like, roughly, inexactly, "They were calling it the trial of the century, but Emma Goldman knew it was only 1910 and the century had a long way to run."
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  69. Surely you know you misspoke. The site of the mansion is now the home of Congregation Emanu-el, not "Congressional." The temple is one of the largest synagogues in the world, and holds more people than St. Patrick's Cathedral down the street.
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  70.  @108asf  If I went around saying I was an Emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away.
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  71. I knew the Krays inspired the Piranha brothers, but I never knew their nemesis Snapper Organs was inspired by a real-life policeman named Nipper Read.
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  72. Also was the inspiration for Bruno Mars's stage name. (Really).
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  73. I was going to mention that. I remember Johnny Cash singing it, though it was probably older than that.
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  74. Just your luck--the lavish ceremony where you would have received the statuette for this momentous accomplishment has been cancelled. Not because of the coronavirus, but for lack of interest.
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  75. We're halfway there already. Many of our (US) senators are horses' asses.
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  76. Kind of true, but I think it's a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Nowadays the name Vanderbilt, like Rockefeller, immediately says "money."
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  77. Could be worse. I misheard at first and thought he said opium and mayonnaise.
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  78. Don't forget Napoleon XIV. He had the number 3 record on the Billboard Top 100 in 1966. (True story, but I suspect he wasn't related to the others).
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  79. An interesting and well-made video. I'm the proud owner of a flea-market-find picture of the Morro Castle on fire. It's very obviously a black-and-white picture of the ship before the fire, with colorful flames luridly and clumsily painted on. Handmade Photoshop from before the days of computers.
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  80. Rumor has it that it wasn't just his arm that was too little for her. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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  81. Maybe you`'ve heard the famous saying attributed to Sophie Tucker: "I`'ve been rich and I`'ve been poor. Rich is better."
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  82. I remember reading about her when she died.
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  83. "Three times a week" would be "Thrice weekly," not merely "Thrice."
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  84. Also important to note that you're actually incorrect. She is formally ‘Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith’. In everyday usage you might well refer to her as the Queen of England, but that's not her proper title.
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  85.  @kuckoo9036  , Savage Peasant. Get a room, you two.
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  86. I also thought building something like this for a 50th anniversary was a tad over-optimistic.
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  87. I've heard that saying before, but attributing it to Native Americans is only slightly more likely than attributing it to Yogi Berra.
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  88. First telegram Europe to the US in 1858. Undersea cable.
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  89. Neither was Washington. Or Adams. Or Jefferson. Or etc. They were born British subjects.
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  90. Only if they were fighting in World War I.
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  91. Jeeze, didn't you watch the video? He threw paint at the FLOOR, not the walls.
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  92. Or we could believe Chuck Berry: "Milo Venus was a beautiful lass, she had the world in the palm of her hands; She lost both her arms in a wrestling match to meet a Brown-eyed Handsome Man--She fought and won herself a Brown-eyed Handsome Man."
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  93. I'm not arguing, but didn't Clinton accomplish a balanced budget, a comparable achievement?
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  94.  @KurtJohn3  Fair enough. So Coolidge's is a more impressive achievement.
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  95. Named after their tennis instructor. (Actually: "Stan Hywet derives its name from its pre‐history, the site of an old stone quarry. It is pronounced “stan HEE’wit” and is Old English for stone quarry")
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  96. And I hope they remembered why.
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  97. At the end of May he was released from the facility he'd been staying in, into the arms of his mother. They were off to join his uncle in Miami. They were wearing masks, so we couldn't really see his face, but a picture was released a few days earlier of him smiling happily, clean and neat, with a recent haircut. A happy ending?--I hope so. (After the first few days, the only places I found any news about him were Telemundo and Univision)
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  98. Denver wrote some good songs, but "Country Roads" isn't a "singer-songwriter' song. It was openly an acknowledged collaboration between Denver and two other writers, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who came up with the idea and wrote much of it before Denver heard it and joined them to finish it. This isn't a rumor or a secret but the well-known origin of the song. Danoff and Nivert were always credited and acknowledged as co-writers.
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  99.  @GlutesEnjoyer  Just wait. Many New Yorkers loathed the World Trade Center when it was built too, and then when someone had the temerity to knock it down everybody acted all upset and everything.
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  100. It's kind of creepy that they argued about who "owned" him. Nobody owned him. Held the rights to determine what to do with his remains, maybe.
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  101. See that? Two sides to every story. Not necessarily two sane sides, but two sides.
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  102. Well then, now that you've rendered the final word, let's just tear the freaking thing down.
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  103.  Thomas Foley  I was reading about MRE's a month or so ago (Quarantine, you know). I think I get the (un)intended pun--something I learned about them I never knew before.
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  104. Who asked?
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  105. "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness'. Oscar Wilde
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  106. It's all the chemicals in our water and the toxins in our air. (Yes, I'm a lifelong New Jerseyan. And proud of it).
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  107. If it's the best bait wouldn't you hope to find one and a half dead mice?
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  108. If a family lives there is it not also their "home?" It's also a building, a dwelling, a residence, a domicile and no doubt others.
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  109. The Normandie was actually docked--and burned--on the Hudson, not the East River. Smoke from the fire might conceivably have been visible from the East River Drive, (now FDR), but the only way the ship might have been visible would be if there were no buildings in midtown Manhattan.
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  110.  @twistoffate4791  Yes, absolutely.
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  111.  @Wi-Fi-El  Good call. 1841: Van Buren, William Henry Harrison (died after one month in office), John Tyler. But also 1881: Hayes, Garfield (assassinated, died after about 6 months in office), Chester Arthur.
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  112. I hate to ask what he wanted in return.
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  113. If they make a chart on the Kardashians I am not only going to unsubscribe to the channel but consider giving up the internet altogether.
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  114. Coincidence? I think not!!
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  115. I was aware of that story, though I don't know any more than you outlined in your post. I actually visited Laos, and saw the former royal palace, now a museum, in Luang Prabang. I have thought that would make a very good subject for a video, but also felt it was probably too obscure a story to interest a lot of people. Also, many of the crucial facts are probably still unavailable to any foreign researcher. I was happily surprised to read your suggestion of it, but I won't get my hopes up.
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  116. Just think: if Gloria Allred had been around back then Evelyn might have lived out her days living in luxury in Palm Beach.
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  117. I wonder whatever happened to Glenn Miller.
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  118. There's a lot of truth in that, but the personalities involved and the choices they made mattered too. The Vanderbilts spent all their money.. The Rockefellers gave a lot away but still have a lot left today.
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  119.  @KarenCorr  Nobody in their right mind would wonder that.
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  120. I'm surprised you didn't show the famous clip of Hitler dancing the jig after he received the French surrender. It was circulated widely in the Allied countries. And after the war, of course, it was revealed to be a fake, looping, or repeating, a single awkward step to make it look like a foolish dance.
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  121. Maybe if your nose wasn't so far in the air your hearing would improve. Ken pronounces library correctly, with both of its "r"s intact.
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  122. Actually it took until the third suicide, in Jan 2021, before they closed it "indefinitely." I can't tell if it's reopened yet or is scheduled to. "Waste of money?"--I guess that's a matter of opinion.
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  123.  @Amarianee  Not once, but twice--makes it even worse.
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  124. The Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art is hardly "nothing." It's part of a world-renowned institution, one of the jewels of New York City, much more significant than the large but rather mundane house that was torn down.
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  125.  @planetdisco4821  Following the links from the Times obit of Peter Warner, which I couldn't link to here for some reason, I read that movie rights were sold last year, by Warner, the four surviving castaways, and Rutger Bregman, so a movie may eventually be made. Bregman (I've never heard of him), a historian, apparently published an article in the Guardian last May which was very popular and revived interest in the story, leading to the movie sale. Reading the Guardian article about the movie sale, though, I get the feeling that political correctness will keep the movie from ever being made. Certain people are voicing concern that any potential movie be made by Pacific Islanders and reflect and respect Tongan values and culture etc. etc. In other words, they don't want a Hollywood movie. Unfortunately for them, Hollywood has the money to make such a movie, so we'll see.
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  126. I can never understand why people say things like that. In what conceivable way was he underrated? Underrated by whom? Virtually any qualified critic of popular music of the era acknowledges as one of the greatest guitarists of all. Any musician of the time would say the same thing. If the general public don't instantly equate Prince with "great guitarist" it's because that was only part of his genius. He was also a great singer, songwriter, performer, producer. Is there anyone familiar with his music who says he wasn't also great on the guitar? Sure, there are some, probably here in this thread even, who will put him down because it inflates their own ego to trash someone whom everyone else admires. Their opinions don't count. Among those whose opinions are worth listening to, Prince could hardly be more highly rated.
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  127. Nero, supposedly, but probably untrue.
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  128. If only the nutria could be persuaded to eat bamboo. Or if McIlhenny had introduced pandas instead of nutria.
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  129. So is republican. Why don't you folks who try to make this silly attempt at an insult refer to yourselves as the Republic party?
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  130. It's a lot like Jerry Della Femina's famous tongue-in-cheek proposal for a slogan for Panasonic: "From those wonderful folks who gave you Pearl Harbor." It wasn't really used, of course, but became so well-known that Della Femina used it as the title of his memoir of the advertising business.
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  131. They're biding their time. Just you wait.
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  132. Poor Ivan, having to dance around and deflect questions about communicating with the boys and their condition during the rescue. He knew perfectly well that they were sedated and basically unconscious, but that information was not yet public knowledge and he wasn't free to discuss it. Kudos to him for his discretion, and of course for his valuable contribution to the rescue effort.
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  133.  @PJK19  I disagree. Thai Cave Rescue on Netflix fictionalizes the story to an inexcusable extent. It focuses on fictional characters and ignores real people who were instrumental in the rescue, and it fictionalizes the personal stories of some of the boys and their families. However, Netflix redeems themselves with The Trapped Thirteen, a documentary which came out at the same time. That film includes actual interviews with some of the real boys and the coach, and lets us know them and their true story better than any other film.
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  134. Say what? He wrote "Respect," of course, and other famous songs, but "Easy to be Hard" was from "Hair."
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  135. I love that the producer of that show called Prince earlier in the day and asked if he was going to be OK with the rain, if he needed anything. Prince said "Can you make it rain harder?"
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  136. Hilarious.
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  137.  @angelachouinard4581  Unlike the current occupant of the White House.
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  138. I hope your students are just taking the course as a requirement and not with an eye to a career in architecture. If they can't name at least a half dozen famous contemporary architects, hopefully more, I think the field is not for them.
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  139. Sadly, piracy is all too rare in Long Island Sound nowadays.
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  140. You're not wrong, but it seems the Belgians make the Spanish look like angels.
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  141. Truth; Of course they were. Every comment section is full of people using the same tired joke over and over--usually because so few people bother to read the other comments before posting their own. But to be fair, nothing is more tired than "Last time I was this early....."
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  142. No, Stanford University is named after Fred Stanford, the famous TV junkman. Didn't you watch the video?
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  143. No. None.
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  144. One thing I don't get. "Hey Jude" was longer than "Bohemian Rhapsody" and radio stations almost always played that full length. When John Lennon was told radio stations wouldn't play a song that long he said "They will if it's us," and he was right. There were other long songs too: "Like a Rolling Stone," "American Pie," "Layla" all got played, usually, but not always, uncut, even by "Top 40" stations. Wasn't the argument over the length of "Bohemian Rhapsody" somewhat overblown?
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  145. It could be worse. I've always chosen to believe the theory that one of Victoria's grandsons (or was it son) was Jack the Ripper.
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  146. I like Rockefeller's simpler explanation: "God gave me my money."
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  147. "With Texas John Slaughter men did what they oughta 'cause if they didn't they died." Is that the one? He was the subject of a TV Western in the 50's, of which I remember absolutely nothing except that little bit of the theme song.
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  148. Funny thing about Argentina: I can't speak for all Americans, just most of us---we never think about Argentina at all. When it comes to Argentine presidents, a few of us could name Juan Peron, mostly because of Evita, but they're dead (I think). There was some other woman , I think, sometime later, but I have a feeling that ended badly too, and that might have been Brazil. Beyond that nada. You had some stupid war with England, but that was quite a while ago. There were a couple of pretty good tennis players once. Beyond that, there are something called the pampas, with lots of cows that yield good beef. I know there's a city called Buenos Aires, whose main distinction is that it's not Rio de Janeiro, it's the other one. That's it. (Oh, there might be some famous soccer players from Argentina also, but that might be Brazil too, and we don't care anything about soccer). We have nothing against you. On the whole, if we ever thought about you, our feelings would probably be generally favorable. (That Nazi stuff was a long time ago, and, again, that might have been Brazil, Or even Paraguay. Don't get me started on Paraguay. Or Uruguay. Compared to them, you're France, so you can be proud of that.) So if you think there's something notable about your president, please let us know. It never hurts to keep informed.
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  149. @Just Looking Or a chicken he had a thing for who broke his heart.
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  150. Didn't either of you watch the video?
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  151. The front exterior of the house looks almost identical to several small-town railroad stations I used to see here in New Jersey. Most have been replaced or closed or demolished, but this house made me remember them.
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  152.  @ganbaatarkh  I have no idea if you're correct, but damn, what a wonderful answer.
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  153. Shucks, Michael Jordan is sometimes called the GOAT and it's meant as a compliment.
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  154. I don't think so, not exactly. I think a better comparison would be "drama queen."
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  155. Don't overlook the murder hornets.
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  156. I thought "Scandal" was very good--I remember it quite well. John Hurt was excellent as Stephen Ward, as was Bridget Fonda as Mandy Rice-Davies. (Her delivery of the line "Well he would, wouldn't he?" was hilarious.) Joanne Whalley was OK as Christine Keeler, if less memorable. I don't remember who played Profumo--I think he was a lesser character in the film. Christine's boyfriend Johnny was played by, of all people, Roland Gift, lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals. I thought Hurt deserved an Oscar nomination, at least.
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  157. But isn't he justly forgotten? He perhaps wasn't as irredeemably bad as he's usually regarded, but I don't think Simon's minions could find as many admirable aspects to his career as they did with Polk.
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  158. Well, actually, no. "One of many," maybe, but not "the only."
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  159. He can't slow down. He's got twelve more narrations to record today. (If I care enough I go to Settings and listen to him at 75%)
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  160. With respect, you may have missed it but nothing in this video was previously "untold."
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  161. By far, but I guess Kiefer is no slouch either.
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  162. I give up. Wolf? Worm? Wuss? Wart? Wank? Wipe? Wasp? Wizz?
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  163. An interesting idea. I think it would be a major undertaking, on a par with European royalty.
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  164. For the love of God, Simon, give the man a break. And he's always so polite!
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  165. He has mentioned in other videos that he relies on Public Domain photos. There may well be color photos which are covered by copyright and which he might have to pay to use. So financial and legal concerns preclude their use.
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  166. So many posters focus on the idiocy of this guy's actions in an environment so challenging and unforgiving as Alaska. They're right, of course, but I think Alaska is really incidental to this story. The guy could have come to the same tragic end in New Jersey or Connecticut. His "plan" was so clueless, he was so willfully unprepared, so deliberately unrealistic, that he was essentially--maybe knowingly--committing suicide, and his actions could have accomplished that anywhere.
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  167. Not to be confused with the Pantheon in Athens, to which Simon referred in this video when discussing the Scottish Monument.
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  168. In my ignorant opinion, I think this house is far more beautiful than Biltmore. Biltmore is bigger, but I wonder which one cost more to build.
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  169. I was 10 years old in 1960 too, and I wasn't that dumb, nor were any of my friends. I will grant you that when Pope Pius XII died in 1958 that was the first I'd ever heard of "the Pope."
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  170. I was going to look up that quote to make sure I got it right, and then post it after I finished reading the comments. Thanks for saving me the effort.
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  171. I'm sure he's top of the list.
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  172. Crapped on all the guests, then flew too close to the chandeliers and expired, their tiny bodies falling into the elaborate coiffures of the elegant ladies below. At least that's what I hoped happened. Alternatively, they flew up to the ceiling where they nested in the decorative plasterwork and reproduced, their descendants living there happily to this day.
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  173. I think the more polite phrase is "inspired by," but, in a word, yes.
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  174. Actually, you should be reminded of "Hamlet," which is where the character appears. Or perhaps you could be reminded of Cap'n Crunch, whose first name is Horatio.
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  175.  @theawesomeman9821  Alas, no. Not until he's a convicted felon (maybe not even then--I'm not sure). But we can hope.
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  176. He was also married to Cara Williams, who starred in Pete and Gladys. Dear God, talk about trivia. She was of Rumanian origin, by the way, and I was shocked to just find out that she's still alive.
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  177. What! You don't remember the presidential election between Mitterand and Giscard d'Estaing? Blood in the streets, I tell you.
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  178. An even more perfect murder is one which nobody realizes IS a murder.
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  179. That reminds me of a play I read about, but didn't see, I think by Steve Martin. It involves Picasso and Einstein and other historical luminaries of their era. Another character is a complete nonentity, with no particular accomplishment, who achieves immortality by being the first person to say "Cheese" while having his picture taken. (At least that's how I remember it).
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  180. Don't blame your ignorance on being American--I'm American and remember it very well. (To be fair, I'm probably 30 or 40 years older than you, too).
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  181. Very interesting and entertaining video. I can't fault your choice of mansions to feature, but I`m surprised you left out my very favorite, the Phipps mansion on Long Island, AKA Old Westbury House/Gardens., open to the public and often used in movies and commercias. In my opinion, the most beautiful of all.
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  182.  @BelcarrigFarm  Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
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  183.  @beefchillingham6790  "Lord Nelson had a vote." "He had a BOAT." Blackadder. Sorry. I had a friend in Thailand who was telling me that a neighbor girl was autistic, but he got his words confused and told me she was "acoustic."
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  184. No. It's Tyler.
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  185.  @edweard  Absolutely. The thoroughbred industry (Jockey Club etc,) are more fanatic about their genealogical precision than the Mormon Church or the British Royal Family.
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  186. Only if you win.
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  187. I still watch old videos about this. That doctor was one of the very worst "experts" I've seen. Practically everything he said was wrong.
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  188. One of the newspapers shown in this video, at 10:36, calls the killing of White "The Greatest Sensation In Gotham Since The Killing Of "Jim" Fisk."
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  189. There you are!!
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  190. I'm amazed somebody else felt that too.
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  191.  @jessicaregina1956  What part of Europe do you think the Aleutians are in?
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  192. Sez who? Never heard either of those. I think it's most often pronounced Deel-ya. Ask Johnny Cash ("Delia's Gone").
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  193. And then imagine that they'd all had thermonuclear weapons! The mind reels.
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  194. Well that's one way to judge a person.
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  195.  @lydialady5275  I just googled "famous knitters," and sure enough Mrs. Coolidge is on the list, as is her successor Eleanor Roosevelt. Disturbingly, also on the list is Charles Manson! Cheers. (And I'm glad you took my original comment in the spirit it was meant).
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  196. It is still open to the public, but yes, to help pay for its upkeep (a million a year plus) it's rented out for any number of events. Films, TV shows, commercials, corporate events of all sorts, help keep the lights on and the furnace running. You can even have your wedding there. The National Trust can, and will, only contribute a limited amount. Everyone who bemoans the fact that so many historic mansions are torn down seriously underestimates how difficult and expensive it is to preserve them.
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  197.  @I-am-Ranb0  Well now I know (sort of). If you hadn't replied and I hadn't done some internet research I would have remained one of the 99.9% of readers who didn't have the slightest idea what you were talking about. " 'Up the boro'. A term used in Middlesbrough which has evolved from local football slang to something which generally means something good. Used mostly at the end of sentences expressing ones joy. Can be changed to UTFB (up the fucking boro) if feeling slightly more joyful. " Close?
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  198. I'm surprised that all those commenters horrified that rich families with too much money spent big bucks on big houses didn't note that (some of) the Stokes adult children used one of their mansions for meetings of the Communist Party of America. Irony? Travesty? Poetic justice? Just some stuff that happened? What do you think?
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  199. I thought it was John Wayne.
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  200. That's one of those things you never think about until someone brings it up--then you can't stop thinking about it. For some reason it reminds me of a character in a play by Steve Martin whose claim to fame is that he originates the practice of saying "Cheese" when we're having our picture taken.
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  201. My father was proud that on his high school senior trip to Washington D.C. he got to shake hands with Silent Cal when the class visited the White House. I guess school trips were different back then.
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  202. Copyright issues, maybe? They would have had to pay to use his music, maybe, although I think using short clips would be "fair use," and no problem. Maybe just too much trouble, considering how many videos they crank out.
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  203.  @stephanginther9051  I thought that was a possibility, but I'm always coming across new military or nautical terms that I'm unfamiliar with so I thought I'd ask. Cheers.
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  204. Duh
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  205. Such as?
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  206. "Berth?" I always thought it was "Bath." Granted, neither one makes a hell of a lot of sense. But I found myself singing the song to myself all through the video.
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  207.  @kenhurley4441  Weird. I'm reading this on Jan 6, 2021 and just 20 minutes ago on TV heard this line quoted in the US Senate by Sen. Amy Klobuchar during the Electoral Vote debate. She didn't name Franklin, but said, in effect, "some guy."
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  208. Like Martin Luther King, I too have a dream. I dream that one day I can watch a Biography on this channel about some major figure in world history without reading a comment where someone calls him or her "underrated." I'm sure if Simon does a Biography of Jesus or Mohammad or Napoleon or Alexander the Great someone will call him underrated.
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  209. Growing up (in the US) I always saw it spelled Montezuma. It's only in recent decades that I've seen it spelled with a "c." Both, I think, are approximations of the original Aztec (Nahuatl) name, as filtered through the Spanish. Neither is exactly "correct," but as a site I just looked at says, "Montezuma," while more common among English speakers, is probably less correct. So, basically, use which ever one you prefer. (And it's always a good idea to question your knowledge).
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  210. Oh I don't know. I think there's probably quite a few people who recognize it.
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  211. She wanted the house to be used as a residence for the President of the US, and that is what it became (for a while), just not in the way she (or anyone else) expected.
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  212. I wonder about that too, and the fact that he sometimes includes glaringly incorrect information. Such errors always inspire numerous comments, and I think the number of comments, which, while it doesn't directly increase income from YouTube, does improve the number and placement of recommendations the video receives, and therefore viewers, and eventually subscribers. And thus income.
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  213. The original one, not the one that's there now.
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  214. They only had one daughter, Frances (Scottie), and she was 19 when her father died. She went on to have a life of some accomplishment as a writer, and has a Wikipedia page about her.
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  215.  @phildavy913  They served Italian food, but since they were in Italy they just called it food.
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  216. He's remembered every day by motorists on the BQE between Brooklyn and Queens, who cross, and often curse, the bridge named for him. It was rebuilt a few years ago so it's slightly less despised than it used to be. Traffic reporters still hate it, though, because they still can't pronounce it. The Pulaski Skyway (bridge), not far away in New Jersey, is no prize either.
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  217. This is Part 2. Why didn't you watch Part 1?
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  218.  @Replicaate  Alydar would make a great video--I'm not sure this is the right channel, but surely Simon has one or two where it would be a better fit. Ruffian or Go For Wand, (Or Barbaro or Eight Belles) were just tragic accidents, but Alydar's story still has the element of mystery and criminality. Many people think they know what happened, but as far as I know it was never proved in court.
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  219. What did he watch instead?
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  220. You not only didn't watch the video, you didn't watch the musical. He was Puerto Rican.
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  221. Just for your sake, I hope he does. I love that you never give up and that you always say "Please" and "Thank you."
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  222. Evelyn Nesbit no; her celebrity was more ephemeral, based on one salacious episode--think Monica Lewinski. Lillie Langtry was more like a minor league Bernhardt--similar but...lesser. Cody is a better example--some real accomplishment which he cleverly parlayed into widespread and lasting fame.
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  223. "Sadly" for whom?
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  224. One of your best episodes. I saw a TV program about this 30 or more years ago, but I think even today the story is not widely known.
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  225. Shoot, a good 3-D printer could spit one out in half an hour. A can of gold spray paint and you're good to go. (Full disclosure, I have no idea how a 3-D printer works and what it can and can't do).
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  226. Apparently not, but don't let that stop you.
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  227. I did have my doubts--do they even build ships in Tanzania?
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  228.  @shebbs1  I'd forgotten about the Valiant. Wasn't it a Plymouth?
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  229. Maybe they should have built a really really big log cabin.
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  230. I was in school then and the general reaction was: Who? You mean he was still alive? They did at least fly the flags at half-mast for a while.
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  231.  @owenshebbeare2999  I didn't know it was exclusive to Americans, but yes, it's to emphasize, in no uncertain terms, that "I've said my piece and there's nothing more to be said on the subject." In this particular instance, however, I might suggest that that there may well be numerous other reasons why Joe is not going to be a celebrity. It's often not solely a matter of intent.
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  232. If you watched the video you would have heard Simon repeat that anecdote, though without the attribution. Another often repeated story, probably equally apocryphal, has someone (Alice Longworth? Dorothy Parker?), upon being told of Coolidge's death, saying "How could they tell?"
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  233. MAYBE IF YOU WATCHED THE REST OF THE VIDEO BEFORE POSTING......?
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  234. Andy bitched that he never got paid for producing the Velvet Underground's first album. And while we're on the subject, how about a Biography of Lou Reed? I don't know too much about him, but I read not long ago that when a biographer of Reed approached one of his friends for an interview the "friend" asked "What's it called? The Worst Person Who Ever Lived?"
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  235. Yes, but it's west of Florida, which is where the video shows the impact occurring.
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  236. Crusty old Vern Unsworth, plain-spoken and not given to sugar coating things, said "It wasn't the kids' fault, it wasn't the coach's fault. They were just very unlucky." He, who knew the cave better than anyone, had been planning himself to go into the cave that day.
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  237. According to imdb, Funny Girl used the Oak Grove estate in San Marino, CA
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  238. Ah, they'd all be dead by now anyway.
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  239. Only by Ken.🙂
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  240. I guess the person holding a gun to your head, forcing you to watch, cares.
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  241. Ooo yeah! I live in Mercer County, named for him. The alleged tree under which he apocryphally died is just down the road. I like the story, probably also apocryphal, that he had medical training and pointed out to his companions which of his wounds was going to kill him.
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  242. Are you listening, Donald?
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  243. Not that big a problem Check out "Kind Hearts and Coronets."
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  244. How could we forget it? At least 30 people have mentioned it in these comments already.
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  245. If you don't know the name of the lead singer of the Doors, go to your room.
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  246.  @azazel688  Kudos to @oof for bothering to do it, but, to be fair, it wasn't hard. Anyone , including you, could have done it in about 5 minutes.
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  247. Yeah. We know. We watched the video.
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  248. Me neither. Plus, I didn't know where Al Bundy went to school. Am I allowed to post here?
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  249. Hitting the like button before watching: that's how Trump got elected.
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  250.  @renerpho  But isn't Duke of Cornwall the one where the money is? Given the choice (which he wouldn't be) he might still prefer that one.
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  251. Well that's cheating. I guess the question is what do your students hear about him?
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  252. So is Ilse Koch.
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  253.  @Edmonton-of2ec  Not Princess of Wales? Eh, how about Den Mother--close enough.
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  254. Probably self-conscious because of the camera.
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  255. Beard fruits? Are they anything like dingleberries?
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  256. I'm surprised Simon didn't mention this issue. In the US, at least, it was always Montezuma, with an "N" until recent decades. Now I see it more often with a "C". Relax, though. I'm sure neither is how the guy himself would have spelled it.
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  257.  @The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage  Or too few "s"es.
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  258.  @mwindanji6714  Why is that a problem? He could still be a plausible subject for a biography--just not for an obituary. (Just glancing at the short list above I see this channel has done bios of Trump and Madoff, and I'm sure other living persons).
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  259. That says more about you than it does about her.
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  260. I'm sure Pa Cartwright would never lie to you, but the name "Shiloh" is of biblical origin.
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  261. That's OK. After your post and 10 previous ones saying the same thing everybody is aware of that.
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  262. Did his mention of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein mean nothing to you? They were (and are) journalists. They wrote a book, after they wrote numerous newspaper articles exposing the Watergate scandal. The book was made into a movie. Robert Redford, in case you didn't know, is an actor. He was in the movie. Other than that, he really didn't have anything to do with Watergate. I think you need to go back to junior high school.
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  263. Xaviercuervo--aren't you proud of yourself? Of all the hare-brained ideas, yours was the one that actually worked. Lindsay Ruiz--I hope you feel like a fool. Did you ever send Xavier the apology he deserved?
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  264. Says a lot for your school system.
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  265.  @N3VIUS  Jeeze, turns out you're quite the reader--you read a hell of a lot into my seven words. Never mind, I'll drop it. By the way, my kife is fine.
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  266. There was a contestant on Jeopardy some years ago whose name was genuinely Morgan Chase. He said that when the two banks merged they tried to sue him for his website or Facebook page or something. He could easily prove that he had the name first, and wasn't "squatting."
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  267.  @littleblackduck3134  I thought that too, but also, he's just reading the scripts in these videos. He doesn't necessarily know anything at all about the subjects he's talking about. Sometimes it's obvious. But he's just a capable narrator--he doesn't claim to be an authority. It's no secret that Alex Trebek didn't really know all the answers on Jeopardy.
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  268. I'm not sure if you're just making a joke, bit you're not far from the mark. They did spend a lot of time watching birds fly to see how they did it--how their wings moved. And I'm sure they wrote down notes!
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  269. No he shouldn't.
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  270.  @eHush  Not a bloomin' clue. (I hear they have this thing called googol or something now where I could maybe find out, but that's too much like work for me.)
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  271. Yes, the French have always been revolting.
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  272. And I am Marie of Rumania.
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  273. Was he the one who later adopted the name Chubby Checker?
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  274. I'm not sure I understand you, but I think I agree. Sometimes it seems he's speaking phonetically. Like Abba.
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  275. That's OK. At least 15 people have pointed it out before you.
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  276. Personally, I have no idea, but it's funny how many other people complimented his pronunciation.
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  277. I remember when I was a kid hearing about the Corn Palace and thinking it was some kind of major national monument, like Mount Vernon. When people drove out west they surely had to visit Mt Rushmore and the Corn Palace. Boy, was I in for a letdown when I actually saw pictures of it and realized what it really was.
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  278. My first thought of a house to suggest was Whitemarsh.
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  279. Why don't you watch the video and find out before commenting?
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  280.  @FooNation  Worst human being to be president, and absoute worst president, but I think his presidency was too tragic to be called laughable.
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  281. I'm curious too---did you watch the video?
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  282. I think you are overestimating the "existing wagon road network." I don't think the Stanley Steamer was up to the challenges of the Oregon Trail.
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  283. "The most important," dear God. Why limit it to Rock and Roll? I think he's right up there with Abraham Lincoln as the greatest American to ever live. And I'm beginning to have my doubts about Lincoln.
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  284. What! You think he was Jack the Ripper?
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  285. So what happened? Did you win? Were you suing Paul McCartney, who owns the publishing rights to Buddy's songs? What happened to the other brother? Details, man, details.
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  286.  @joeyanny8018  Astonished (and very impressed) that you replied. Thank you. You sound like a class act. They were probably lucky to have you representing them.
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  287. Simon figures that if he talks fast enough the frequent untruths will slip by unnoticed.
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  288. Maybe so, but Wilhelm's wife was Hermine--no "o." The video was correct.
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  289. No wonder Mort Sahl is forgotten today.
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  290. I have to wonder, though, whether Simon has the slightest idea who Martin Prince is. Simon's talent is narration, reading the script placed in front of him and sounding as if he knows what he's talking about.
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  291. I was going to explain about the air raid siren, but then I BOTHERED TO READ THE OTHER COMMENTS and decided there was no glory in being the one-hundredth person to do so.
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  292. "Based?" Explain.
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  293. One of your favorite wars? Really? I've always been partial to the War of Jenkins' Ear myself. But actually I think they both have to take a backseat to the Whiskey Rebellion.
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  294. No. I'm stunned by the number of comments saying what a waste or what a tragedy it was that these tanks were scrapped. I just don't get it. Why shouldn't they have been scrapped? How many do we need today.? OK, a few are rightfully saved in museums; anyone obsessed with seeing one can do so. Do we need hundreds of them in hundreds of museums? How many people need or want one in their yard, or have room for it. Any VFW Hall that wanted to stick one on their front lawn and plant red white and blue flowers around it could probably have gotten one. What better use of the vast quantities of steel represented by these tanks than to recycle it? That is one tiny worthwhile recovery of some of the vast waste caused by this, or any other war. It's not like "history" was destroyed, so long as a few remain in existence. Forgive me for ranting, but I just don't get it.
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  295. When we drove to Florida in the mid-50's I don't think that was there yet, or not a big thing certainly. But I remember Stuckey's which seemed to be at every major intersection down south. Do they still have them? Pecan candies so sweet they made your teeth hurt. And Dr Pepper advertised and sold everywhere. We'd never heard of it--I think it was a few years later when it became a national brand.
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  296.  @dominiqueuniquenique9752  Nope. Me too.
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  297.  @RagnarokMic  The Big Bopper is famous only for dying with the others. Chances are he would have only been a novelty one-hit-wonder otherwise.
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  298. "Serious tourist attractions" sounds somewhat oxymoronic, but how about the Grand Canyon? Niagara Falls (shared with Canada)? Independence Hall? Yellowstone and Yosemite? The Empire State Building? Gettysburg (cluttered with kitsch, but the battlefield and cemetery aren't)? Pearl Harbor? Arlington Cemetery? The Lincoln Memorial? The list goes on.
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  299. Actually he was born in Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA! Moved to Delaware when he was 10.
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  300. Dan Quayle was from Indiana. Does that mean anything?
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  301. Don't knock it til you've tried it.
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  302. Adams's win was perhaps a little shady, but he, himself was certainly not corrupt. He was one of the greatest men to ever be president, which, sadly, is not quite the same as being one of the greatest presidents.
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  303. You might as well have stopped after your first sentence. You don't get it. Stick with photography--that's what you like and what you want art to be. Other people might differ.
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  304. No pun intended, I assume.
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  305. I noticed that. Coincidence??? Hmmm
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  306. No reason he couldn't play himself in a biopic. After all, the OTHER Jimmy Dean, the one that makes sausage, still narrates his company's TV ads even though hes been dead since 2010.
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  307. I thought you said Aaron Burr was the monster.
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  308. I have a dream. Someday they'll invent a computer with a volume control.
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  309. Certainly--he was one of America's most famous and celebrated actors for decades. It made me cringe to see him treated so dismissively in this video.
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  310. That is kind of cool, but wouldn't you have to time it exactly? There couldn't be more than a minute's difference, maybe less, and it would change every day. I can see you noticing it once or twice by accident, but you'd really have to work at it to see it much more than that.
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  311. Unfortunately, we Americans weren't as lucky as Europeans, especially, who had German and British and American bombers in the twentieth century to periodically dispose of unwanted and outdated buildings.
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  312. I'm from New Jersey, and the fact that Elizabeth is in NJ doesn't stop it, or many other NJ places, from being a suburb of NYC. The same applies to parts of Connecticut. And I've never known of ANYBODY who considers Staten Island to be part of NJ, or anything other than a borough of New York City. (We could make the argument, though, that Liberty Island, and its rather well known statue, are in NJ)!
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  313. I just slogged through all the comments to see if others brought up what I thought were the two biggest omissions from the video. Dozens of people mentioned one of them--his military-industrial complex speech. But nobody mentioned the other--his failure to take a stand against Joseph McCarthy.
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  314.  @scruffscruffeton986  He may well have been deliberately misinterpreting you, as a joke. Wawa supposedly means wild goose in some unspecified Native American language and the signs for the convenience stores show a stylized goose in flight.
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  315. "Corn" doesn't necessarily mean corn as normal people mean it. In some benighted countries, such as those of the British persuasion, it can be applied to other cereal grains, such as wheat or oats.
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  316. I don't think Andy did Edie Sedgwick any good, but I think that's not even close to what happened in their relationship. Andy didn't need her money. And lots of other people victimized her too, beginning with her father. Not that that excuses Warhol, but I don't think he can be identified as the major source of her problems.
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  317. Give it up, God. That battle was lost a long time ago. Listen to Jay.
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  318. I think just this particular Brit does.
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  319. I don't doubt you, but it was most often called the "horsecollar grille." That wouldn't work nowadays, because most people would have no idea what a horsecollar looked like.
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  320. Isn't Casa Encantada the "official" name of the Hearst Castle or maybe I'm thinking of some other famous mansion?
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  321. Who's Oliver?
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  322. Really? I think I heard that somewhere. Oh wait--it was in this video, that I just watched and you apparently didn't.
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  323. Not sure exactly what you mean--the rights to use them in videos like this, for instance? This bio would have been better with some music--probably too expensive. But in the years after Jimi's death didn't they release almost too much music?--albums that scraped the bottom of the barrel, with music nearly worthless, that Jimi would never have released if he was alive. Is that stuff still available? Are the classic albums available in newer formats? I'm pretty ignorant on the subject, and genuinely curious.
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  324. Really. It wasn't his fault he was shot. (Although it was probably his doctors' fault that he died from it).
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  325. This isn't a cooking channel. Those are all cheeses, right?
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  326. I think actually he's (mis)pronouncing it as if it were French: toe-PAN.
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  327.  @Chud_Bud_Supreme  P. S. Somebody DID win the Mega Millions Lottery.
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  328. The boy with the fat face--Tle/Tern? I think he was taking medication that made his face swell up like that. He didn't look like that before, or later.
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  329. Yeah perhaps, but don't hold your breath.
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  330. I've looked and looked and I don't see a Segway; "segue" maybe?
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  331. I pay for premium too, and happily my computer has this feature called "Fast Forward."
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  332.  @brianwaloweek6770  So... the answer to my question is "Yes, he did"?
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  333. Why?
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  334. Or panzers.
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  335. I don't know. Maybe if I watched the video I'd have some idea.
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  336.  @adamfisher9584  Alec Douglas-Home!!! (That was a prime minister. right?)
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  337. I thought it was a bit incongruous to accompany a crucifix with a tiger skin and a moose head. What would Jesus think of that?
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  338. Did you watch the video?
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  339. Is it true he had an entire menagerie, all called Abdul?
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  340. Please explain in what possible sense of the word he was "underrated."
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  341. What's your point? There's a whole state named after him on the West Coast and he never went there either.
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  342. The Republican party we know in the present day bears little resemblance to any historical Republican party. Do you think Theodore Roosevelt would recognize it? Or Dwight Eisenhower?
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  343. Had the "original buyer" never been to an auction before? I can't believe he was unaware of the buyer's premium and that the sale fell through as a result.
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  344. I wouldn't be surprised to find the largest stadium in Dubai or Saudi Arabia.
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  345. Actually about ten or twelve people have mentioned it. So far.
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  346. That doesn't necessarily make you a history nerd. It might make you an idiot savant.
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  347. I'm sure they're top of his list.
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  348. I''m watching this apparently 14 hours after you, and it shows 44,095 views. Where are you getting your number?
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  349.  @jerrybaharlias9809  Why did he go out on a limb? You have to realize he probably never heard of Calvin Coolidge until they handed him the script for this video. He just reads what's put in front of him.
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  350. Somehow I don't think history will judge President and Mrs.Johnson by how they treated Eartha Kitt.
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  351. There you are! I had to scroll through 300 comments looking for you! P.S.: John Doe: Kindly lighten up. He is no doubt...um...persistent, but I don't think either "spam" or "troll" are appropriate.
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  352. Often more succinctly expressed as "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations."
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  353. I think I have to disagree. He was somewhat famous when he was alive, but he'd already begun to fade before he died, and he didn't become any more famous afterward.
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  354. Picky, picky. (Actually, very well spotted. Does someone have too much time on his hands, or just good eyesight?)
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  355. Utterly wrong.
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  356.  @trishbirchard1270  My reply seems to have disappeared: " "Utterly" was perhaps too strong. You say tomato..." Let's call the whole thing off. Best wishes to your daughter.
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  357. Cannibalism has it's good points too. And infanticide. Alas, we're all so narrow-minded today.
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  358. Sez you. In other words, defined by whom? That's simply your opinion, not an incontrovertible fact.
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  359. Well maybe we will and maybe we won't, but just because you've heard of him doesn't make him famous.
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  360. Both died alone in a bed! Gosh, what are the chances? Eerie!
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  361. Didn't you ever watch Young Frankenstein? "Thats EYE-gor!"
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  362. Is that that stuff that Koreans eat?
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  363. "Pictures or it didn't happen" then?
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  364. He always pronounces it that way. I've learned to just overlook it and move on.
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  365.  @ssmt2  Directed by Sebastian Bleisch. A followup to Die Boys Vom Bahnhof, maybe.
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  366. Don't you mean "I've heard the theory that...."?
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  367. Closer to "ignored" than "glossed over."
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  368. Then why don't you watch the video before commenting on it?
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  369. "Punishing on the South?" I would hope so. That was kind of the point.
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  370. Right. He's lumped in with Fillmore and Pierce and he shouldn't be.
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  371. Can't you even like that in his Diaries he dissed Donald Trump? Truly a man ahead of his time.
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  372. Keep telling yourself that and maybe you can finally come to believe it.
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  373. If he didn't he should have.
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  374. You're 40 years late on the film. Produced by Penthouse magazine, written (and disowned) by Gore Vidal, some big name stars, and partly hard core porn.
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  375.  @lilyfrettlohr4336  Take a rest, Lily. The Aztecs didn't use the Greek alphabet, so neither one is correct. Both are approximations of the original Aztec/Nahuatl name, and both are "acceptable," though the "C" is more common in recent years. And might I suggest you learn your English grammar and punctuation before you post again to tell someone to learn his or her History.
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  376. Fischer and Kasparov figures of "old times"? Dear God, you make me feel ancient. (Kasparov is still alive and only 58 years old).
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  377.  @ayushdwivedi2039  I know that's what you meant, and I'm mostly just teasing. (What's wrong with "former", rather than "of old times"?) You just made me feel old, that's all, but hey, I am old. I just don't like to be reminded of it. Peace.
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  378.  @oslonorway547  Not bloody likely. Surely you've noticed how few people can even be bothered to browse this section to see if a comment has been posted before posting the exact same thing.
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  379. Bobby Vee was a little more than that, though not really a major talent. Bob Dylan, still Bobby Zimmerman and still in his teens, attended one of the concerts on that tour, and, I think, played briefly with Bobby Vee at one point. He was from Minnesota, of course.
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  380. By his saying several times "No matter what you think of his music," I got the impression that Simon didn't think much of it, or else was unfamiliar with it.
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  381. Hope? I took it more as a warning. Or a threat. We still have 4 months to go.
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  382. They were ugly too.
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  383. They were underrated. (See my comment above). (Actually, don't bother. It's not worth it).
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  384. Now if it was the same year that would really be impressive. Otherwise...meh.
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  385. A little secret that the History Guy doesn't know or is pretending he doesn't: A lot of people are familiar with the story.
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  386. But you're missing the point of the list. She was plenty famous before she died.
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  387. That occurred to me too, but then I realized that I only "knew" how much he hated the name from the Warren Beatty movie, so who knows what the truth was.
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  388. Ah! So at least he got a bridge named after him. (Or was it named after the other guy?)
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  389. Tobacco?
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  390. And Betty Coed had lips of red.
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  391. Do you really say that? In English? Does that rhyme in Dutch?
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  392.  @goodun2974  We always called them locusts. Now every time they show up some spoilsport has to point out that they're really cicadas. Bob Dylan called them locusts in his song about receiving his honorary degree at Princeton while they were in full cry. Are you calling the Nobel Prize winning Voice of a Generation a liar?
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  393.  @goodun2974  Oh dear! That's much too serious a response to a tongue-in-cheek comment! That Dylan song has special meaning for me because I worked in Princeton and was in the town that day and facetiously flatter myself that my presence is suggested by the line "Outside the gates the trucks were unloading." And, as he sings, "the locusts sang." They really did, and we really did call them locusts locally, and I fully accept that they were really cicadas. And I doubt the Nobel committee were thinking of that song when they were considering him for the prize.
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  394. That's God's job.
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  395. Hunh? What is different from what??
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  396. Funny, I always heard that as Prince Albert, not Raleigh.
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  397. Love the house, like the owners, but this video is so incomplete as to be virtually useless. What happened to the brewery? One actors' workshop and one half-day corporate retreat are fine--but to project a lucrative yearly income from these two trial runs is ludicrous. What happens when the one, overworked, handyman quits? Is there a Part 2? What happened next? To imply that this couple's pipe dreams came true and they lived happily ever after is dishonest .Maybe it did all work out, but there's no evidence of that in the video.
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  398. I love it. Tut would have needed very strong shoulders. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they have a United Nations day or something at school and the kid from Easter Island has a giant stone head like the famous statues there.
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  399. I think I heard that somewhere. Could it be in this post?
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  400. Absolutely true!! And practically every report of the story gets this wrong. The boy (Adul) didn't ask "What day is it?", he just said "What day?" This was in response to the diver saying many people were coming to help--the boy asked "what day"--meaning "when"--are they coming? At least one boy's watch was still working and they knew what day and time it was and how long they'd been there. The boys themselves specifically confirmed this when they appeared on the British TV show "This Morning."
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  401. I caught that too.
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  402. I know it happened offscreen, but................Roseanne.
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  403. Name one person who's ever said that they dislike it that he's African.
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  404. Don't give him ideas. I wouldn't put a history of dog shit past him---and yes, he would probably make it interesting.
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  405.  John Barber  He was seldom if ever called Bob Zimmerman. As he wrote in his "Chronicles Vol.1" book, he was called either Robert or Bobby.
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  406.  John Barber  I guess she would know better than he does.
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  407. Citation needed.
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  408. I guess that's one explanation--my first thought was the perils of strong drink. Just think, the artist was probably trying to be flattering--wonder what that nose was like in real life.
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  409. Queen Hortense wasn't really the niece of her husband, Louis Bonaparte: step-niece at best. She was the daughter of Napoleon I's wife Josephine from her previous marriage.
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  410. And we aren't now either. He's famous, to the extent he is, for dying, and that's about it.
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  411. Yes, or even Ekk. I don't know why some sources insist on saying Ake.
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  412. Um--it's been quite a few movies.
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  413. They can and they do. Not many do, but European and Japanese and Arab horses (and Australian, South American and South African horses) can be eligible for the US Triple Crown, if they are registered Thoroughbreds with proper credentials. There was a Japanese horse in this year's Kentucky Derby.
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  414.  @chrisl.5637  If you REALLY want rubbish, watch the one starring Mick Jagger.
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  415. Right, and it annoys me that in many videos about the rescue they say they had no food and then in practically the same breath they praise the coach for heroically giving his share of food to the boys. He very well might have, but he had nothing to share. Also, the bit about drinking the water dripping down the walls has been exaggerated. When Dr.Richard Harris (as he writes in his book) visited with some of the boys some months later he asked about that and they laughed--they said they mostly drank the water flowing past on the cave floor.
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  416. Phew, I was worried there for a minute! I always read the comments for these videos and wondered what happened, why there was no request for Ip Man!
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  417. Just wondering--do you really think that's what the third line is?
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  418.  @gondwanaland3238  So is (or was) it accurate to say that all UK citizens are British subjects, but not all British subjects are UK citizens?
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  419. Did you watch the video? Like especially the part at 16:28 where they said that and showed it?
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  420. Or how about my Uncle Fred?
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  421.  @preetamsrinivasan7070  No. Just some guy. Actually, I don't even have an Uncle Fred.
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  422. Especially Annette--she was my favorite.
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  423.  @UsefulCharts  Maybe to make up for it you could give a prize to the one-hundredth person to mention this.
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  424. Well, there were 12 boys and a coach and they all got out alive, but, other than that, practically everything in this video is wrong.
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  425. All the comments seem to take this at face value. They ignore the "hopefully and "plan to" and "if." I wonder how many Venetians, or Italians in general, believe anything will truly change.
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  426. Boy did you guess wrong (and apparently you misunderstood the topic).
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  427. If he watched his own videos he would also.
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  428. I hope you're kidding. Despite what some lazy reporters might state, the word "gaudy" has nothing whatsoever to do with the architect Gaudi.
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  429. So is Dachau. You have a rather strange perspective.
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  430.  @CassieLino  I think "disproven" and ""official" both require a certain degree of skepticism. Your conclusion may well be correct but I doubt it can ever be conclusively proven.
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  431. Do you mean Cleaverland? I hope so--a much better joke.
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  432. And I think he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
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  433. Understandable. I almost did, but managed to stick it out.
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  434. WAS considered. Until a year or so ago.
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  435. NOBODY says it like that.
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  436.  @Iconhulk  I stand by my response. Perhaps you don't know that the "a" with a bar over it indicates that it rhymes with "day" or "bay," which makes your example "Lucey-ay-no." As I said, nobody pronounces it that way. By the way, "pronunciate" is not a word.
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  437. Those of us who like his videos have learned to overlook that and enjoy them anyway.
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  438. I got too many nasty replies before so I won't make a joke about that particular use of "segway."
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  439. Hey, how ya been?
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  440. He could have called this one "Seeds and Stems."
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  441. @Nolan Is Innocent And vice versa.
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  442. They cheated on Downton Abbey, didn't they? They made the klepto out to be Queen Mary's seamstress, not the queen herself.
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  443. I really wanted to hear that somebody shot a hole through it.
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  444. His credibility on the subject is a little bit suspect, since he referred to them as "Azore Island" in this video
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  445. Well, he DIDN'T drown, did he?
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  446. Really? He's a professional script reader. I think I agree with the other posters who wondered if Simon ever even heard a Prince record.
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  447. No.
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  448.  @Channelscruf  It's always going to be a fuzzy topic, subject to personal interpretation, but I don't think it's accurate to call a ruler--a monarch or a political leader, even a religious leader--a "celebrity." I don't think we should call Mohammed, or Kublai Khan, or Alexander the Great a celebrity. Your opinion may differ. Also, speaking of the pharaohs, I don't believe their celebrity, if you want to call it that, extended beyond Egypt and those who were their subjects. The rest of the world didn't know they existed. Oddly, I think it might be fair to call Tutankhamen, after the discovery of his tomb, a celebrity, but of the twentieth century, not his own time.
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  449. Next time, check your hearing first before posting.
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  450. Another genius who posts a comment without bothering to watch the video.
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  451. Really not that interesting, unless she's also an ex-Parrot.
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  452. Either kill somebody famous or become Miss America, back in the days when anyone cared who Miss America was.
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  453. No Disneyland, no K.C. and the Sunshine Band, no Cool Ranch Doritos...no Trump. The mind reels.
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  454. I learned a lot from this video, but not enough. I still don't understand your conclusions: that Chavez was an egotistical madman who destroyed his country's economy, wasting the oil revenue, driving away the productive middle class and taking Venezuela from prosperity to a position as perhaps the poorest country in Latin America, yet "the people" still love him and revere his memory because he lifted them out of poverty. Something there doesn't quite add up.
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  455. Wondered where you were.
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  456. You spelled it wrong. It's Addams. There's Gomez, Morticia, Fester........ Yes, I know, I know, and yes, that would be interesting.
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  457. Of course it's a suburb of New York City, as is much of the rest of Northern New Jersey and Southwestern Connecticut. Being in a different state doesn't change the meaning of "suburb."
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  458. Idiotic, but actually kind of cool. Reminds me (idiotically on my part) of the racehorse Cigar, who retired after winning $9,999,815, just $185 short of ten million. And yes, many, many people have said "Close, but no Cigar." Memo to self: drink less before posting.
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  459. Shut up. Maybe some of them were left-handed. It's like Paul McCartney and his bass. Or Jimi Hendrix.
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  460. So that was God telling all the other passengers "Drown, suckers!!"?
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  461. Do you have an autograph? Neither one is exactly correct, both are approximations of the actual Aztec/Nahuatl name. And I don't suppose it occurred to you to browse through a few other comments to see that at least a dozen other people have already raised this point.
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  462. I think you've had just about all the cocaine you need already.
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  463. Was he Bill Clintonovich's vice president?
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  464. Much as I like to see my home state of New Jersey get a favorable mention, Fonthill and the Mercer Museum are across the Delaware River in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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  465. Well jeeze, anybody can do that.
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  466. Forget it, Patricia. It's Chinatown.
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  467. Well, legit until you realize he did a video about her.
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  468. Mmmm--you really think so? I thought it sounded almost like he was a non-English speaker reading it phonetically, with no sense of what the words meant. I know he's a professional narrator who does dozens of these videos every week, and I've never had that feeling about his narration before.
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  469. A video like this is, by definition, just somebody talking. Maybe you could turn it off halfway through. Or maybe Simon could play piano from time to time.
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  470. The most under-rated soldier? I think I'm going to have to ask for a little documentation on that.
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  471.  @bobbyanderson1054  He's requested under virtually every video--by the same guy. I admire his persistence.
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  472. Spooky! Just yesterday I finished rereading his book "Spangle," (first time in 25 or 30 years), and thought , "Maybe I'll reread "Aztec" next." Happily, I don't have to look any further than my bookcase. Great book, but, yes, very long. Sadly, the sequel, "Aztec Autumn," or something like that, is very disappointing.
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  473.  @danielpopernack2700  How do the people in Bala Cynwyd make out?
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  474. Knew you wouldn't let me down.
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  475. Mercedes Benz at this point would probably prefer that you leave them the hell out of it. It's not a subject they like to highlight in their corporate history.
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  476. Like everything else, I blame Trump.
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  477.  @FortuneZer0  "You too can be a big hero, once you've learned to count backwards to zero."---'In English and German I've learned to count down--and I'm learning Chinese' said Wernher von Braun.'"
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  478. Is this the first you've seen it? He wears it a lot.
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  479. Why, whomever could you possibly be referring to?
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  480. Is that supposed to mean anything? Asking for a friend.
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  481. So among his other accomplishments he was the inspiration for Mr. Creosote.
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  482. Um, or should I say Errrm.... he was talking about World War I, which was actually a different war than World War II.
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  483. He doesn't really make them. He just reads them. It shouldn't take more than a half hour for him to do his part, one video after another. He doesn't even have to change his shirt.
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  484.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Some of us--dare I say most of us--understood what you said correctly.
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  485. Nope. Next question.
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  486. President James Madison was at the Battle of Bladensburg in the war of 1812, while the American troops were under fire from the British. Granted, he could be considered more an observer than a participant. But was Washington in battle while in office as President?
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  487. Yeah it's a damn shame. If you're looking for a tourist attraction in the area, might I suggest Dachau? It's not that far away.
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  488. How about Ivan the Terrible?
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  489. Where ya been?
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  490. What about the High Line (or is it Highline?) I guess that's not attributed to one person, and I don't know how much it cost, but that has always seemed to me even more of a case of much ado about nothing.
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  491. A good argument could probably be made for his inclusion.
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  492. While you're picking nits, why don't you mention Simon referring to the Collector of the Port of Authority. It was Port of New York. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (not Port of Authority) is a more recent creation.
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  493. Wondered that too. Is it an album cover or something?
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  494. Ah, but a squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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  495. May I be the first, of probably 50, to point out that Hailey is Stephen Baldwin's daughter, Alec's niece.
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  496. I deeply disliked how the reporter and his crew blatantly ignored the authorities' request to leave the boys and their families alone and instead went to their homes and intruded on their privacy, interrupting their reunions, (apparently) waking one of them up, to ask such vital questions as "How do you feel?"
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  497. They should learn how to take notes then.
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  498. He never got enough credit? He was one of the most celebrated and honored men of his time. Twice elected president. A million and a half people attended his funeral and he was buried in one of the most majestic tombs in the country, which was for years one of the most visited sights in the nation's largest city. His likeness is still on one of the bills of the U.S currency. I think he got quite a bit of credit.
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  499. And namesake of New York City's most despised, and mispronounced, bridge. (Recently rebuilt, so maybe it's better now).
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  500. Why did you scrape them off? I thought we were hot stuff because we had a sticker from the Old Jail in St. Augustine, Fla on the bumper of our Pontiac station wagon.
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  501. Oooh---so close.
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  502. I watched the video, but I haven't read all the comments yet. I'm positive, though, that I'll come across one that calls him underrated---I always do.
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  503. What's a cow line?
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  504. Scum media, no doubt. But hardly "the original." Scum media has been around probably as long as any kind of media. But specifically, in America, "yellow journalism," for instance, was a recognized thing in the nineteenth century.
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  505. I'm honest. I don't have the slightest idea what FGO is. But I've heard of Geronimo all my life.
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  506.  @kahnu893  New York Post 5/26/2021: The Vessel at Hudson Yards will reopen Friday after a four-month shutdown following a rash of suicides — but you won’t be able to climb it alone. Three visitors in the past year jumped off the 150-feet-tall structure, a collection of 154 interlocked staircases. Rather than install taller glass barriers on walkways of the vertical sculpture designed by Heatherwick Studios, the new safety plan has three elements to protect visitors. Guests must come in groups of at least two.
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  507. Since 2017 very few people have referred to Nixon as the worst president .
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  508. The way things look now (subject to change), he'll be going to live in the White House. (After it's fumigated, of course).
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  509. The title is "Reason to Believe," and yes, Rod Stewart did a great version of it, probably the best-known version.
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  510. Thai is strange that way, mostly because there is no universally accepted way of rendering Thai words in English orthography. Even street signs in Thailand which give city names, for example, in English can vary. Pattaya, for instance, can just as easily be Phattaya on traffic signs. Sawatdee, the very common word for hello or welcome is sometimes seen as sawasdee. Try pronouncing the name of Bangkok's main airport, usually seen as Suvarnabhumi, the way that Thais do. And someone please explain to me why the name of one of the famous "cave boys," apparently pronounced Tern, is sometimes spelled Tle.
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  511. My memory may be faulty, but didn't Mandy land on her feet and go on to a more-or-less successful life?
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  512. As opposed to the one who was an English cricketer who played in 194 first-class matches between 1849 and 1867.
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  513. No.
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  514. Weren't they remembered in a movie starring Harry Connick Jr., of all people? It's not much, but it's not nothing.
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  515. Yes. A lot of us actually watched the video.
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  516. One term president---from your lips (actually fingers) to God's ears.
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  517. With the exception of the odd kidnapping and ensuing bank robbery here and there.
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  518. Hoover was a good president too, if only it weren't for that pesky Depression thing.
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  519. I almost posted that quote. I also like a quote attributed to John Sr.'s sister: "When it's raining porridge you'll always find John with his bowl right side up."
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  520. Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. president to be born a U.S. citizen. All those who preceded him were born British subjects.
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  521. Weird. I happened to watch it about 5 hours ago!
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  522. Or their bodies.
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  523. We who?
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  524. What a bizarre comment--where did you get that idea? You couldn't be more wrong, unless you consider extensive philanthropy, far-sighted support of the arts, art history and institutions, land preservation and environmental concerns to be pissing her father's controversial and arguably ill-gotten fortune away.
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  525. Well, that ain't it. What point are you trying to make?
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  526. You forgot to begin with "I'm not a racist, but..."
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  527.  @sololay3861  There are some--I read a review of one of the films on another site and in the comments someone complained that it included spoilers by revealing that the boys were in fact rescued and survived.
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  528.  @Mangolite  The tidbit about the weakest boys being rescued first is untrue. The doctors determined that they were all in similar condition and left it up to them who would go first. Amusingly, they apparently decided the boys who lived furthest away would go first--they had no idea of the enormous scale of the rescue operation and expected they would simply get on their bikes and pedal home. Elon Musk's "contribution" was a shameless, self-serving distraction to the real rescue, and the less said about it the better.
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  529.  @Kelsee13  The boys and the coach early on sold the rights to their story to Netflix. Any other filmmakers were limited in what they could say about the boys. You might notice that this Ron Howard film doesn't even use the boys' actual names.
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  530. He has many statues in Thailand, including a big one in front of the cave.
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  531. An idiotic question, but the answer is mashed potatoes.
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  532. Actually they last used it in 1977. Capital punishment was outlawed in 1981.
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  533. I visited the Spruce Goose when it was on display in Long Beach, next to the Queen Mary. They showed a film of Hughes's testimony to Congress about it. I loved his simple answer when a Senator (or Congressman) said "Mr. Hughes, will you direct (somebody, an employee) to come down and testify before this committee?": "Why no, I don't believe I will."
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  534. And beat you at basketball.
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  535. The 20 or 30 people who have already commented on it probably do.
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  536. Technically he grew up as a British subject, so however he spoke it was technically with a British accent. It was probably quite different from the accent of a resident of London, for instance, though.
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  537. Famous? Hardly.
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  538. I knew someone would have nothing better to do than to trot out this tired complaint. I quote Merriam-Webster(dot)com: "Unique is often cited as a word that should never be modified, and it presents a special case because of the evolution of its meanings. It comes from the Latin word unus (“one”), and its original meanings in English were “being the only one” or “sole” and “having no like or equal” or “unequaled.” These meanings are about as absolute as they can be, and are seldom modified. However, words that are in widespread use have a tendency to take on extended meanings, and unique also came to mean something that was unusual or rare, as in “a unique opportunity” or “a unique feature.” The fact is, the original (and most absolute) meaning of unique is the word’s least commonly used meaning today (meaning “sole” or “only,” as in “the unique copy of my manuscript”). But modifying unique when it means “unusual” is common:..."
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  539.  @imac1957  Did you read my post? I certainly did not acknowledge your point was correct. It is perhaps defensible, taking a pedantic, traditional, strict-constructionist viewpoint, but considering the way language is actually used today it is not.
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  540. There are at least three--don't forget Cap'n Horatio Crunch.
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  541. I think so.
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  542. Don't hold your breath.
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  543.  @mysticx0  Next week on Biographics: King Bamalama IV.
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  544. Maybe if they'd...you know...won the war they would be.
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  545. Now that's just silly. Slightly humorous, but silly. Or, to quote Arte Johnson, "Very interesting....but stupid."
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  546. Are you sure he's not saying "Be sure to like and subscribe?"
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  547. Who should I believe? Another commenter had a feeling that Dali was Simon's favorite artist. My own feeling is that Simon is a skilled presenter, who reads the script (which he didn't write) for each of his videos as if he's thoroughly familiar with the subject, when in fact he might not have any real idea what he's talking about.
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  548. The whole video is built around a false premise--he is not nearly so obscure or forgotten as suggested here, to anyone with any awareness of US history. Granted, many Americans couldn't name any presidents before Trump (OK Washington and Lincoln maybe. But only maybe.) Coolidge is no more obscure than Taft or Harding or Hoover or Carter or Ford, as 20th century presidents go.
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  549. Which one?
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  550. Can't sneak anything by you!!
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  551. Didn't it hurt your feelings when he called it "Azore Island?"
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  552. Or how to keep Swedish Fish from pulling the fillings out of your teeth.
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  553. Garfield died in 1881. X-rays weren't discovered/invented until 1895. Alexander Graham Bell did try to locate the bullet using a type of metal detector he had developed, but was unsuccessful.
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  554. Make that "every president but one." (And I don't mean FDR and the "two terms" thing).
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  555. Were you alive back then? He's very definitely wrong.
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  556. Pay attention. (I fell for that too, at first). It was Ned's father who married in 1850.
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  557. He uses public domain photos when possible and probably didn't find color photos not covered by copyright. Understandable.
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  558. Don't let facts get in your way. He grew up in Abilene, but he was born in Texas, as Simon said. And the fact that JFK Airport is in New York doesn't mean JFK was born there, either.
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  559. And he absolutely killed on "The Love Boat."
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  560. By whom? No American has ever pronounced it that way. We do know how to spell it, though.
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  561.  @JohnyAFK Thank you for your charming reply. Perhaps we are talking about two different things, since Bataan is in fact not a city, but a province, or, geographically, a peninsula.
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  562.  @ThisHouse  Yes you very wisely did, but don't expect people to read other comments before posting their own.
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  563. If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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  564.  @mgcnashville6615  I'm going to side with Erica on this one, to some extent. I have no reason to doubt you knew Waylon, or question your motives for posting. The issue for me is people rushing to post some factoid about a video (which is pretty much common knowledge) without bothering to check that 8 or 10 others have already posted the exact same thing.
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  565. What did they want? (Seriously asking). What was the attraction there for them? What did they eat? Bugs?
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  566. William Hurt is dead.
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  567. And you have a long walk ahead of you. There's Nelson Eddy. Nelson Rockefeller. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Craig T. Nelson. Nelson, the singing brothers, and their father Ricky. Nelson Muntz, Bart Simpson's schoolmate.....
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  568. "The joy and glee of WWII"--that's a phrase you don't hear every day.
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  569. Did you watch the whole video? It said that since 2009 the house has been used as a private residence, and sometimes used as a site for filming--neither uninhabited nor languishing.
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  570.  @henrylivingstone2971  Well I guess now I know. Peace.
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  571. I sometimes have that problem. If it's a subject I really don't want to miss, I go to "Settings", then "Playback Speed" and listen at 75% speed.
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  572. Or the McGuire sisters! Geez, hadn't thought about them in years.
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  573. You've committed a common but unforgivable error, condemning yourself to eternal scorn from Fitzgerald fans, by referring to "The Beautiful and THE Damned." It's "The Beautiful and Damned."
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  574. I am in awe of your persistence.
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  575.  @joshwhite5407  I don't know much about Ip Man, but he was a real person, not fictional.
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  576. Isn't he the one who walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center?
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  577.  @Galadonin  I think you realize I was joking, but I'm puzzled by your reply. You obviously know he was the opposite of a Resistance leader, and the Fifth Republic was founded some years after his death. I trust that you're merely joking too. Your original brief description of him is not incorrect, but your last one is no more accurate than mine was. In any event, yes, he would make a good subject for a Biographics video.
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  578. Yeah, I thought that was a pretty shaky statement.
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  579. They stopped making Segways a couple months ago.
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  580.  @ttystikkrocks1042  They should be offered a third choice, too: maintaining their current status. If I'm not mistaken, that has turned out to be the choice of a plurality in various polls in the not-too-distant past.
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  581. Malcolm McDowell played him too. The movie was largely trash, openly pornographic, but some of the cast were first-rate actors, and McDowell was good.
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  582. As if he didn't know that.
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  583. Simon's videos often include blatant errors. My (maybe crackpot) theory is that it's deliberate, to draw comments, and thereby pad the count, benefiting his standing in the all-important algorithm.
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  584. No
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  585. I dunno--if you were a service worker in Mumbai you might love to have a job as a housekeeper at a home like that, loony as it is.
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  586. There's an excellent fictionalized, but fairly accurate, film biography of him, called, with great originality, "Basquiat." Jeffrey Wright is outstanding as Basquiat, and David Bowie (!) is memorable as Andy Warhol.
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  587. Such as? Do tell. (Maybe you're right; I'm not arguing, but I'd like some examples).
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  588. Did any of them know John Laurens?
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  589. Look it up yourself. Try Merriam-Webster. You'll find you're wrong, as well as pedantic.
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  590.  @longforgotten4823  Please be so kind as to tell us in which particular "academic circles"you travel.
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  591. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I think the house, inside and out, is hideous. It's one of the few videos that you've shown that I kept hoping would end with the house being completely demolished.
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  592.  @skyden24195  He was an individual, not a group.
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  593. Read Robert Caro's "The Power Broker." It'll take you the rest of the year and tell you far more than you wanted to know.
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  594. I beg your pardon?
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  595. You probably know that Steptoe and Son was adapted into the very popular Sanford and Son, starring Redd Foxx, here in the US.
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  596. Not Mary! Elizabeth! The Man With the Golden Gun features her lying at an angle in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor after the fire, with MI6's secret offices, similarly angled, supposedly hidden within. Quite an amusing idea, but the real exterior shots of the actual derelict ship are sad.
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  597. So you're the one.
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  598. Yeah. Why were they always traipsing around that damn hill anyway? Mighty suspicious. Especially the one in the first picture of them who was a crossdresser.
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  599. Who says that?
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  600. Or learn how not to fall overboard. Apparently during the heyday of the British Royal Navy most of the sailors didn't know how to swim.
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  601. And we'd be driving on the wrong side of the road to this very day.
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  602.  @eauhomme  I know I shouldn't, but I have to ask: Are you making a joke or do you really think those are the actual words?
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  603. I thought he was a boxer. Oh wait--that was Primo Carnera. Do a video on him.
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  604. That's not much fun at all. Is there something missing in that sentence?
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  605.  @gomahklawm4446  Oh, OK. Got ya.
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  606. Did you at least learn to read? If so, it's really not that hard to catch up on what you missed, if you're willing to put in the effort.
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  607. He did. So did Kirk Douglas and others, including, of all people, Martin Scorsese.
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  608. Oh no! How could he possibly have left that out!
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  609.  @Mirongawaritane  That was my first thought.
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  610. Speak for yourself, Surge. "Rather apt" is as "rather apt" does. You're right about most Americans and the government, though.
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  611. I kept hoping to hear they were done in by polar bears.
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  612. He just sits at home, waiting in vain for someone to make a suggestion in the Comments section.
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  613. What makes you think they didn't? It was kept secret that actually 16 people went in the cave--only 13 came out.
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  614. I wasn't on this channel when that vote took place, but somehow I have my doubts that it was actually certified by impartial UN observers.
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  615. One of the 1000 greatest, surely.
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  616.  @georgevalley1319  I've got nothing against him, but let's not get carried away. "One of the greatest of all time" seems a little rich. You added "imo," so if it's your opinion that he is, who am I to argue?
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  617. Is there more than one? Be proud of that one--in my uninformed opinion the most outstanding building of the 20th century.
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  618. Yes, but was he suckled by a she-wolf? (You forgot to mention the cherry tree. So did Simon. That will be remembered too).
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  619. Someone suggested in another comment that it was blown up in with the house and only bits and pieces were recovered from the rubble. I don't know if that's true.
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  620.  @sjoerdvanloon  Maybe, but in American English we don't say "going to hospital," we always add the "the." One of the many differences between American and British English.
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  621. You both have me beat. I not only don't remember what I learned, when I see a video listed I can't remember if I even watched it at all, or just saw the thumbnail.
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  622. The hype wasn't behind him. The talent was behind him, behind everything. The hype was on top of that.
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  623.  John Barber  My uncle was shot too. Thank God he was carrying a bible in his pocket, so he had something to read while he bled to death. (Anthony Jeselnik)
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