Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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Birth of a nation
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On progress and historical change
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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The death of Antony & Cleopatra (30 B.C.E.)
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Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum
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France’s baby bust
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The best writing about punctuation. Full stop.
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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The city that fell off a cliff
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The false evolution of execution methods
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A Gaelic-speaking warrior queen called Aud is central to an emerging theory that Scottish and Irish Celts played a far bigger role in Iceland's history than realised
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Black conservatism isn’t what you think
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The long history of the figurative 'literally'—and eight great writers who used it
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Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral?
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How to self-study history
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook
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In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
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The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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What happened to the old Norwegian flag?
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What happened to the old Finnish flag?
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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Anglish: English without the 'foreign' bits
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The mystery of the world’s oldest billboard
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The shape of Vodou in diaspora
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Pickup trucks: From workhorse to joyride
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
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An overview of how, and why, Taiwan’s Kuomintang dictatorship willingly embraced democracy
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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A lecturer showed a painting of the prophet Muhammad. She lost her job.
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour 2, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED Other extra videos in the series: ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL...
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED
Other extra videos in the series:
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL TESTSAnd they have also created a website for the project now too:
https://todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2/Previous series of tests from a few years ago:
https://tild.es/h3u6 votes -
'Hallowed space': Divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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I was wrong (and so was everyone) | Tom Scott video correction
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