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8 Crazy Ancient Egyptian FACTS #shorts #historyfacts stanguy 2 Views • 7 months ago

Unearth the Unbelievable: 8 Mind-Blowing Ancient Egyptian Facts! 🌍🔮🔥

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Welcome to our captivating journey through the astonishing annals of ancient Egypt! 🏛️✨ If you're a history aficionado hungry for intriguing tidbits, you've struck gold with this video. Prepare to be amazed as we delve into the most mind-boggling secrets of a civilization that has left an indelible mark on the sands of time.

🌾 Fact 1: Harvest Rituals That Raised Eyebrows! 🌾
Discover the fascinating ritual where Pharaohs believed that their very essence could yield a bountiful harvest. This curious custom stems from an Egyptian legend involving Atum, a deity who shaped the cosmos through a unique act of creation. 🌊🍃

🔮 Fact 2: Cleopatra's Time Warp! ⏳📱
Believe it or not, Cleopatra lived closer to the emergence of iPhones than the monumental construction of the Great Pyramid! Join us as we bridge the gap between ancient history and modern innovation. 📜📲

🌱 Fact 3: Cracking the Gender Code! 👶🌾
Ancient Egyptian women had a surprising method for predicting the gender of their offspring. Dive into the ancient wisdom of using barley and wheat seeds to reveal the future. Sprouted barley for boys, and wheat for girls - nature's fortune tellers! 🌾🌼

🧠 Fact 4: Mind Over Mummy! 💀👃
Uncover the intricate details of the mummification process, including the startling technique of brain removal through the nostrils. It's an exploration of the macabre rituals that accompanied the journey to the afterlife. ☠️🌀

🍯 Fact 5: Honey, I Shrunk the Insects! 🐝🍯
Explore the unusual partnership between pharaohs and honey-covered slaves who stood guard against bothersome insects. A sweet solution to an age-old annoyance! 🦟🍯

😿 Fact 6: Mourning Meow! 🐱💧
Delve into the heartfelt mourning customs of ancient Egyptians for their feline companions. Learn how grieving owners expressed their sorrow by shaving their eyebrows, leaving no doubt about their affection for their cherished cats. 😢💔

🐊 Fact 7: Unconventional Contraception! 🐊🍯
Unearth the surprising methods employed by Egyptian women as birth control. From crocodile dung to honey, discover the ingenious ways they navigated family planning in ancient times. 🚫👶

💰 Fact 8: The Salty Currency of Civilization! 💎🧂
Dive into the intriguing world of ancient Egyptian economics, where salt held a value so immense that it served as currency for everyday transactions and even as a form of payment for laborers. 💰🏺

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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History stanguy 2 Views • 7 months ago

One scientist caused two environmental disasters and the deaths of millions. A part of this video is sponsored by Wren. Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/veritasium. For the first 100 people who sign up, I will personally pay for the first month of your subscription!

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Massive thanks to Prof. Francois Tissot for suggesting we make a video on the topic of isotope geochemistry. Huge thanks to Prof. Bruce Lanphear for consulting with us on lead and cardiovascular diseases. Thanks to Rayner Moss for the help with the fire-piston.

Patterson’s 1995 interview audio courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology.

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Other great resources you should check out:
Bill Bryson has a chapter in his fantastic “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
Radiolab have a wonderful podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/...
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey has a wonderful episode – S1E7 which does a great job of telling the story of Clair Patterson
A fantastic Mental floss article – https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/9...

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Much of the lead-crime hypothesis data is from Rick Nevin’s work – https://ricknevin.com/

WHO factsheet on lead poisoning – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...

WHO press release about the end of leaded gasoline https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/...

UNICEF report – https://ve42.co/UNICEF

Needleman, H. (2004). Lead poisoning. Annu. Rev. Med., 55, 209-222. https://ve42.co/Needleman1

Needleman, H. L. (1991). Human lead exposure. CRC Press. https://ve42.co/Needleman2

Needleman, H. L. et al. (1979). Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance of children with elevated dentine lead levels. New England journal of medicine, 300(13), 689-695. – https://ve42.co/Needleman3

Needleman, H. L. et al. (1996). Bone lead levels and delinquent behavior. Jama, 275(5), 363-369. https://ve42.co/Needleman4

Kovarik, W. J. (1993). The ethyl controversy: the news media and the public health debate over leaded gasoline, 1924-1926 https://ve42.co/Kovarik2

Edelmann, F. T. (2016). The life and legacy of Thomas Midgley Jr. In Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania https://ve42.co/Edelmann

More, A. F. et al. (2017). Next‐generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: Insights from the Black Death. GeoHealth, 1(4), 211-219. https://ve42.co/More1

McFarland, M. J., et al. (2022). PNAS 119(11), e2118631119. https://ve42.co/McFarland

Kovarik, W. (2005). Ethyl-leaded gasoline. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 11(4), 384-397. https://ve42.co/Kovarik3

Nevin, R. (2007). Understanding international crime trends: the legacy of preschool lead exposure. Environmental research, 104(3), 315-336. – https://ve42.co/Nevin2007

Ericson, J. E., et al. (1979). Skeletal concentrations of lead in ancient Peruvians. New England Journal of Medicine, 300(17), 946-951. – https://ve42.co/Ericson1

Patterson, Claire. The Isotopic Composition of Trace Quantities of Lead and Calcium https://ve42.co/Patterson1

Boutron, C. F., & Patterson, C. C. (1986). Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition. Nature, 323(6085), 222-225. – https://ve42.co/Boulton1

Patterson, C. (1956). Age of meteorites and the earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 10(4), 230-237. – https://ve42.co/Patterson2

Lanphear, B. P. et al (2018). Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults: a population-based cohort study. The Lancet Public Health, 3(4), e177-e184. – https://ve42.co/Lanphear1

Schaule, B. K., & Patterson, C. C. (1981). Lead concentrations in the northeast Pacific: evidence for global anthropogenic perturbations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 54(1), 97-116. – https://ve42.co/Schaule1

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The Entire History of the Maya // Ancient America History Documentary stanguy 2 Views • 7 months ago

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29:53 - I - To Distant Lands
48:55 - II - Into The Deep Forest
1:08:30 - III - Written In The Rocks
1:45:38 - IV - Origins
2:05:39 - V - Apogee
2:37:50 - VI - Land of the Living
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4:05:06 IX - The Long Count

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Popol Vuh - Dennis Tedlock
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Round Trip From Poptun - Albert Lisi
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Aztecs & Maya - N. James
The Maya - Michael D Coe
Mexico - Michael D Coe
Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya - Michael D Coe
Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology
Pre-Columbian Art - Esther Pasztory
Painting the Maya Universe - Dorie Reents-Sudet
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens - Martin & Grube
The Maya & Teotihuacan - Brasell
Conquistadors - Michel Wood
Warlords of Ancient Mexico - Tsouras
The Mesoamerican Ballgame - Scarborough & Wilcox
Mexico & the Spanish Conquest - Ross Hassig
Olmec Archaeology & Early Mesoamerica - Pool
Penguin Atlas of North America - Eric Hoemberger
Politics of the Maya Court - Jackson
Classic Maya political History - Patrick Culbert
Ritual, Violence and the fall of the Classic Maya Kings - Iannone
Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands- Demerest
Blood & Beauty - Orr & Koontz
Life Among the Maya - Ronald Wright
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The Eight Ages of Greece - A Complete History stanguy 2 Views • 7 months ago

The oldest civilisation in Europe. Birthplace of Western Philosophy. The first European alphabet. A place where human sculpture was perfected. A place where democracy was first realised. Where those famous athletic games began. So many accolades for so small a land. Where to begin in telling the story of this oh-so important of nations? At the beginning, of course, and don't stop until the end! In this video I dare to tell the FULL history of this land and its people. It is an incredible story. It is the story of GREECE.

🕐TIMESTAMPS🕖
👉0:00 Introduction, Titles
👉5:15 Bronze Age Greece
👉8:00 Archaic Greece
👉14:59 Classical Greece
👉23:04 Hellenistic Greece
👉31:49 Greece in the Roman Age
👉38:16 Byzantine Greece
👉44:21 Ottoman Greece
👉49:06 Greece in the Modern Age
👉54:10 Summary: Greece throughout the Ages
👉55:34 Outro

In this full length history documentary of Greece I'll cover the full range of time, from the Bronze Age civilisations of Minoan Knossos and Mycenae, through the dark age that followed and into the Archaic Age that saw the Doric people rebirth an even more spectacular culture of a rich Greek mythology of heroes and gods, ornate pottery, the Oracle of Delphi, and an alphabet that is still in use today and was the father of Latin and Cyrillic alphabets used across the world.

The cultural apex came during the Classical Age of the 6th and 5th Centuries BC, where Athens first experimented with democracy, and the Spartan phalanx held off the Persians at Thermopylae, where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle brought new thinking to the world, creating Western Philosophy, where architecture of temples and theatres reached sublime levels such as those of the Parthenon, and where sculpture of the human form was perfected.

The squabbling polis or city states were eventually united under Phillip of Macedon, but it was his son, Alexander the Great who would go on to export the rich Greek culture to the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East beyond when he conquered the much greater Persian Empire in 336 BC. After Alexander, his conquests were split among his generals, with the greatest being Ptolemy and Egypt, which only ended three centuries later with Cleopatra.

The Greek phalanx, however, ended up being no match for the Roman legions, and the Greek world was absorbed into the Roman world over several centuries, ending in Actium in 31BC. But "Greece conquered her rude conqueror" and the Romans adopted many of the customs and philosophy of their captors.

As the Pax Romana ended in the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD, with the sack of Rome, only the Eastern Roman Empire, centred around Constantinople would survive, going on for another millennium as the Byzantine Empire. But betrayed by their fellow Christians in the Fourth Crusade in the Sack of Constantinople, the empire was so weakened that it was finally picked off by the Ottoman Turks two centuries later in the Ottoman conquest of 1453.

The next four centuries were the darkest hour for Greece under Ottoman rule, but salvation would come with the help of the Western Powers with Greek independence in 1832. The modern Greek state expanded over the next 80 years to its current size today, albeit with the disastrous setback of the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-22. A brutal occupation by the Axis Powers in World War II ended only to be followed immediately by a civil war that left political scars between the left and right for decades afterwards, the low point being under the Regime of the Colonels from 1967-1974. Greece joined the EEC (EU) in 1982 and enjoyed benefits of membership but suffered badly in the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity measures that followed. Despite this, however, Greeks today still enjoy their best quality of life in centuries.

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The Endless Horror of Tiktok's Historical Misinformation stanguy 4 Views • 7 months ago

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The internet has made it easier than ever to access information, but it's also just as easy to read and spread lies about history. Tiktok fosters this especially well. Come learn with me about some of History Tiktok's most violent offenders.

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From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online by Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin, Paul Mena, Shan Jiang and Christo Wilson

Understanding Online Falsehood From the Perspective of Social Problem by Anjan Pal and Snehasish Banerjee

Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World by Kimiz Dalkir and Rebecca Katz

Not Your Grandpa’s Hoax: A Comparative History of Fake News By Julien Gorbach

Emil and Xaver; or, LGBTQ history as fiction by Jonah Comen for Medium https://mxcoman.medium.com/emi....l-and-xaver-or-lgbtq

A history TikToker's viral claim that Ancient Rome 'didn't exist' is getting backlash from academics by Kieran Press-Reynolds https://www.insider.com/histor....y-anthropology-tikto

Getting Your Period in the Middle Ages by Larisa Grollemond for Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/edu....cation-periods-facts

Versailles: A Biography of a Palace by Anthony Spawforth

The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began
By Joan DeJean

Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC by Lawrence Wright

What was a Bourdaloue? By Sarah Murden for GeorgianEra https://georgianera.wordpress.....com/2015/11/10/what-

Cr*p at Versailles. Like, literally. By Kendra Van Cleave for FrockFlicks https://www.frockflicks.com/cr....ap-at-versailles-lik

Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”? By Rebecca Onion for Slate https://slate.com/human-intere....st/2021/02/helen-kel

Debunking the Helen Keller Denial Meme by Jillian Mock for WebMD https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-g....uides/news/20220722/

On TikTok, an Album Containing Old Wartime Photos Causes Havoc by Simon Parkin for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/cult....ure/rabbit-holes/on-

Washington Irving’s Columbus and the Flat Earth by Darin Hayton https://dhayton.haverford.edu/....blog/2014/12/02/wash

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul ofAmerica by Fergus Bordewich

New Perspectives on Tubman by Dann Broyld for the NPS https://www.nps.gov/hatu/learn..../historyculture/uplo

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