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Desperate times call for desperate measures, the old saying goes, and the dark days of World War Two were definitely desperate times. Had Chapman been living, working, and stealing at any other time in history, he may have found governments and military agencies — and those who regularly arrested him — to be much less lenient than they were. He wasn't the sort to be trusted with anything, yet British intelligence did trust him. And so did the Germans.
In today’s video we are covering our first Saint worshipped both by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, revered for having first introduced Christianity amongst the Rus. These were a pagan people of Nordic descent, who ruled over a vast land in the early Middle Ages, from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But her holy title should not fool you, as she did not dedicate her life solely to prayer and converting the heathen. This Saint was a ruler, the regent of the Principality of Kiev, and one of the most powerful women of the early Middle Ages.
There are many tales of people achieving all sorts of fortune and fame by selling their souls to the devil. Blues guitarist Robert Johnson is probably the most famous subject of that tall tale. The legend goes that he offered his soul at a Mississippi Delta crossroads, and in return he would receive musical success and talents beyond his wildest dreams. And, yes, to this day he is considered a pioneer of American blues guitar and songwriting. But the devil is in the details. And with a life so shrouded in mystery, it’s hard to separate fact from his very appealing fiction.
There are probably few people covered here at Biographics who are more divisive than Ned Kelly. Australia’s most famous outlaw and bushranger, he is primarily remembered for his final showdown with the police where Ned and his men wore homemade armor. To some people, he is a folk hero; a working-class revolutionary who took a stand against British colonial authority. To others, he is simply a cold-blooded villain who has been undeservedly mythologized and morphed into the “Robin Hood” of Australia.
After the Carthaginians lost the First Punic War and General Hamilcar Barca was left in disgrace, his son Hannibal vowed to avenge his family and his country. He marched his elephants over the Alps and savaged the Romans on the Italian peninsula, killing tens of thousands of legionaries with smaller armies and superior tactics.
Rome only survived because of the brilliance of one man. An up-and-coming Roman general matched Hannibal's brilliance, preserving the Republic and all but destroying the mighty Carthaginian Empire.
He was born as Publius Scipio, but he died as Scipio Africanus: the victor of Africa and the savior of Rome.
During the American Civil War, the country was embroiled in so much fighting that it’s astounding the country still exists today. No fight was more profound than the struggle for black slaves to finally earn their freedom. After all, the staunch belief from the American South that they had a right to own slaves was a primary force in the war beginning in the first place. But even decades before the war highlighted the need for America to end slavery, many people were finding ways to get slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman went above and beyond. But that’s just one part of her rich story.
It's hard to deny that Jay Gould was one of the wealthiest American businessmen of the 19th century, but he also might have been the most brazen criminal in North America.
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Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/science/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy
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BSE History: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn91-bse-disaster-the-history/
EU cases: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/vcjd/facts
Canada’s Mad Cow Crisis: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/a-brief-history-of-mad-cow-disease
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https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-francois-lolonnais-pirate/jen-jeffers
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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/7A*.html#3
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xerxes-I#ref269990
https://www.ancient.eu/Xerxes_I/
https://www.livius.org/articles/place/xerxes-canal-across-the-athos/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/ancient-greece-history-guide-battle-thermopylae-300-spartans-last-stand-leonidas-xerxes/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Plataea
https://www.thoughtco.com/xerxes-king-of-persia-4771152
https://books.google.ro/books?id=lxQ9W6F1oSYC&pg=PA564&lpg=PA564&dq=Artabanus+artaxerxes&source=bl&ots=XDqT2uut9U&sig=ACfU3U2mAaXS8eyrrnhm5qxr3ee03AF-mQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipjefCkrHqAhXRmFwKHV3gCooQ6AEwDHoECBsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Artabanus%20artaxerxes&f=false
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Washington Post’s take on the same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/03/10/quick-end-for-flamboyant-informer/25ffc288-45d5-4e83-aa56-45a03fcc6005/
History of the Medellin Cartel: https://www.medellinabrazasuhistoria.com/origin-of-the-medellin-cartel/?lang=en
History of Colombia: https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/La-Violencia-dictatorship-and-democratic-restoration
Drug War timeline: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9252490
Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2017/09/whats-fact-and-whats-fiction-in-american-made.html
Hollywood v History, what’s true and what’s not in American Made: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made/
LA Times on the Washington Times’ exposure of Seal: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-28-mn-9956-story.html
Arrest and the CIA myth: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c9xODgAAQBAJ&pg=PT32#v=onepage&q&f=false
Iran-Contra: https://www.britannica.com/event/Iran-Contra-Affair
Sandinistas: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sandinista
In-depth article, but an untrustworthy source? https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/
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Father. General. President. Discover the events that shaped America's first great leader.
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He may have started as Socrates' pupil, but he grew into an enlightened man who is arguably the most influential thinker in the history of the world.
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Most pirates catch a big score before being caught themselves. During the Golden Age of Piracy, most pirates met their fate at the end of a rope or the bottom of the sea.
Today, we tell you about the exception. This is story of Henry Every: the pirate who robbed more than $500,000 in riches and got away with it.
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Before America's obsession with serial killers began, one psychopathic killer in Ohio began killing and decapitating people around the Cleveland neighborhood of Kingsbury Run.
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Edward was a kind man who endured a long, twisting road to the English crown. History calls him the last true Saxon king, but as our biographic profile shows, there could be another title that's even more accurate.
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For several weeks in the Fall of 2001, America was gripped by twin terrorist plots. The September 11 hijackings were a massive world event whose effects continue to ripple throughout most corners of the Earth; in the weeks after the Twin Towers fell, though, there was nearly as much fear and anxiety about a small stream of letters that were intentionally laced with anthrax.
The killer was never officially identified, and the case was never formally closed, but one man has been intrinsically lin
Some outlaws sought the freedom of an uncivilized frontier.
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John Wesley Hardin was none of those people.
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