Comments by "timber_beast" (@jsmcguireIII) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. I went back to Ohio, but my pretty countryside, had been paved down the middle, by a government that had no pride.
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  2. "Judge Lawless". Sounds about right.
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  3. Bragging about your mechanical ineptitude is how you lose your man card.
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  4. In researching my own family I learned about an ancestor in the Virginia colony who died in 1742 on board a British vessel off of Georgia in what was called the "The War of Jenkin's Ear". Needless to say it was something I had never heard of. I think it would be a great short subject for your viewers (unless you have covered this and I missed it?). Thanks!
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  5. Religion is big business
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  6. Thanks for this bit of history. Another interesting Moon story is the Canterbury monks' description in 1178 of a possible lunar crater event (Bruno Crater?). Also, the 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm would be another interesting subject. I have early Virginia ancestors who were shocked into Methodism after that event! Their descriptions were recorded in the family bible. Our wildfires in Santa Cruz in 2020 made it dark as night at 3PM. At that point the smoke was high enough it was not significantly affecting the air quality but blocking all light from above.
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  7. Like the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
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  8. Hi Rad - if you like to read check out the book Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer. A MUST read for those of us with deep Virginia roots - in my opinion.
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  9. Well done mr guy, you covered that in record time.
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  10. The RR barons were some awful men for sure. Their names are everywhere in San Francisco if you look. Thanks for the video Mr Guy!
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  11. Italian seamen are notorious for panic and disregard for the Birkenhead Drill.
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  12. We use language to reinforce DIFFERENCES in groups of people and REDUCE communication. This is the basic joke through history. When we practice GENOCIDE we first try to kill the language.
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  13. So this was after the Battle of Fallen Timbers that cleared out the Ohio valley?
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  14. Thanks for covering this story - "American Scoundrel" is a great read!
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  15. One spot that would not come out.
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  16. Check out bbc “history of the toilet” documentary , they mention the big stink.
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  17. Many people don't know that Michelangelo began his career as a forger of "ancient" Greek sculpture. Your analysis nearly went to the most interesting aspect of our connection to art - our willingness to believe a fake is real. A great book on the subject is The Art of Forgery by Noah Charney, and might be a fun subject for a History Guy episode. Keep up the good work sir!
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