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When a Stan Becomes King | The Life & Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria
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One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be?” And you know my response has usually been “Oh, I want to see what Nero was really like, I want to learn from Pedro II, I’ll want to invite Aristotle, and give up my seat for Cicero, so they can tiff over who’s more self-righteous”. But I have a new answer now: The king who cared more about worshipping teenage heartthrob Richard Wagner than ruling a kingdom: Ludwig II
Music (in order of first appearance):
Purple Planet - Country Ways
Orchestralis - Royal Pomp and Circumstance
Edvard Grieg - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Audio Zen - Simple and Soft Upbeat Rock
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale
Texas Brother - Banjo
Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum
Paul Abraham Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice
AG Soundtrax - The Greatest Heist
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Komentáře

  • @justinhammer3196
    @justinhammer3196 Před 13 hodinami

    Apparently the nazis were just waiting for the right moment, rather than really gone.

  • @richardsuggs8108
    @richardsuggs8108 Před 13 hodinami

    Also Japan learned how to make award winning scotch. And really good cars.

  • @rederickfroders1978
    @rederickfroders1978 Před 14 hodinami

    Makes you think how much different things wouldve been under Trotsky. It really wasnt proper communism, it was a state capitalist prison state

  • @MechaG
    @MechaG Před 14 hodinami

    3:45 do i spy a Bill Wurtz reference?

  • @Richard-dy3wi
    @Richard-dy3wi Před 15 hodinami

    The ultimate giga chad.

  • @justinhammer3196
    @justinhammer3196 Před 18 hodinami

    Well TO BE FAIR Japan thought the USA would be about as easy as those bae baes they tossed in the air and bayoneted. I mean they had it all worked out.

  • @sriharshacv7760
    @sriharshacv7760 Před dnem

    One of the few honor-worthy kings ever lived on this planet.

  • @Sheepybearry
    @Sheepybearry Před dnem

    As an American, I hate Woodrow Wilson, he literally tore apart Europe, and allowed Fascism to rise by getting rid of the Monarchies. He also was racist and was a horrible president in the US too.

  • @imoutofideas8515
    @imoutofideas8515 Před dnem

    I still wonder what wouldve happened if the romans regained the knowledge and troops of the siphonatres and wouldve been able to use them at the wall defence. Would it have made a difference or just delayed the siege for longer? Who knows

  • @silence_dais
    @silence_dais Před dnem

    Wait... so the Nazis celebrated the music of a gay artist? Wild.

  • @joaopedrooliveiradecastros2878

    Persian Gandhi is wild

  • @Guyjuhijiyiijygi
    @Guyjuhijiyiijygi Před dnem

    😂😂😂

  • @panoskamp4324
    @panoskamp4324 Před dnem

    I don't wanna be that guy... but I will be and I will say he did make some plans for the empire he already had. He arranged marriages between Persians and Greeks in order to cease the tensions in his empire. He respect the trafitions of "most" of the people he conquered and as we later see most people looked up to him and considered him a godlike deity. Also it hurts me to accept that, despite his greatness, Aristotle was exactly as you depicted him as far as other nations existing.

  • @futgr9790
    @futgr9790 Před dnem

    I cried a lot…

  • @lapislazuli1206
    @lapislazuli1206 Před dnem

    Wang Mang they could never make me hate you

  • @Grort
    @Grort Před dnem

    Vercingetorix sort of sits in a similar camp for the French. It's kind of hypocritical, but it was something that happened when the idea of the nation state formed and people started looking into the long past for hints at the states to come.

  • @MontazerHussain-dy2dl

    May Allah curse you, stop mocking Imam Ali bin Abi Talib and the Prophet Muhammad

  • @tacticalnuke5673
    @tacticalnuke5673 Před 2 dny

    Man was so tolerant it caused integer overflow.

  • @misterthemad994
    @misterthemad994 Před 2 dny

    Sponsored by world of warships, me leave.

  • @theagrome4592
    @theagrome4592 Před 2 dny

    I really like the picture of Oliver Cromwell with women’s breasts.

  • @ArchAngelWC
    @ArchAngelWC Před 2 dny

    you missed the irony.....The Germans supported the Chinese because Germany and China are historic beer buddies...

  • @Steven-dt5nu
    @Steven-dt5nu Před 2 dny

    😂

  • @klaede9666
    @klaede9666 Před 2 dny

    Wow his army actually got tired of winning

  • @NiruxLoLOfficial
    @NiruxLoLOfficial Před 2 dny

    The problem is, they are coming back. I guarantee you if the AfD would alone be somehow able to gain over 50% and if there weren’t certain laws preventing this from happening, they would absolutely take over and form another dictatorship.

  • @pride2184
    @pride2184 Před 2 dny

    Still hate the guy. I am a huge caesaran and marc antony fan. Cicero like many others at the time was a mad lad.

  • @JohnDoe-fv2qk
    @JohnDoe-fv2qk Před 2 dny

    We won’t be here forever, so let’s make it beautiful 💪🏻☦️🇺🇸

  • @crypto66
    @crypto66 Před 2 dny

    FGO's twisted my perception of history to the point I had to pause at the title, because my first thought was "wasn't Minamoto Yo------ a sh** brother? Like he betrayed Ushiwakamaru?" Then I remembered who Yoshitsune actually was, that he wasn't actually a girl with a weird sense of dress, and that I was thinking of Yoritomo.

  • @sakaue
    @sakaue Před 2 dny

    Japan's decision to declare war on the US was reasonable from their perspective. Their principal miscalculations were their belief that America wouldn't care much if the Japanese occupied French Indochina and their belief that America was not in the mood for a large Pacific war. The decision-makers first did not predict the need to go to war, and then they did not predict the need to fight a war.

  • @TarElaRo
    @TarElaRo Před 2 dny

    God protects us i. N September..are a lot of candidates

  • @user-zw6lx7gv2u
    @user-zw6lx7gv2u Před 2 dny

    Његова мајка је била Јелена Драгаш,од српских великаша Драгаша,који су управљали територијом на тромеђи данашње Србије,Бугарске и Македоније. Интересантно је да се цар Константин XI често потписивао као Константин Драгаш,а не као Константин Палеолог!

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 3 dny

    Spanish people have a lot of names!

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 3 dny

    Marshall would be appalled at some of the people who are members of SCOTUS nowadays!

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 3 dny

    Stanlislaus was actually one of Catherine the Great's former lovers!

  • @Randomperson-ne3kp
    @Randomperson-ne3kp Před 3 dny

    Is it me or is Maxy boy sounded like joker?

  • @LordKlavier
    @LordKlavier Před 3 dny

    Love this, thanks!

  • @ElectronFieldPulse
    @ElectronFieldPulse Před 3 dny

    Ah come on, in the US we talk non stop of our past crimes. Victimhood is the new “in” thing and white people are the official baddies in the new narrative. It is rarer to see people praising our history compared to criticizing it vigorously. I think we need to be put on the same level as Germany when it comes to recognizing past crimes.

  • @bluesoul7163
    @bluesoul7163 Před 3 dny

    As an italian, half of my hearth was destroyed in 476.... The other half in 1453... But Rome still exist in the soul and dream of any good european patriot.

  • @LordKlavier
    @LordKlavier Před 3 dny

    Love this

  • @igorteodordasilva7904

    The only man who truly represented every Brazilian soul since its foundation, our country misses such a great man

  • @klaede9666
    @klaede9666 Před 3 dny

    Thank you Constantine Xi for letting Rome go out with dignity.

  • @VELBLE
    @VELBLE Před 3 dny

    these shia in the comments are funny 😂

  • @cromwell.is.awesome

    I love this period in history, it’s filled with crazy characters

  • @levanikojulakidze5213

    For trebizond it would rather be kings of Georgia as next ceaser of rome???? Idk but trebizond and georgia were close enough in ties from 1204 a.d because king tamars sisters husband was komnenoi hans byzantine( i mean roman empires ) heir could be count Georgia as well??? Well kinda but not like roman emperors did with their heirs ( granting title of emperor or something ) it would rather be like 3rd rome or some kind of that in cultural and historical ways. . . Btw why that hell does david komnenos body is literally david IV body? Is that reference of him or something else?

  • @Alanrichardson831
    @Alanrichardson831 Před 3 dny

    Can I say there is Jas Townsend

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 Před 3 dny

    So this Ludwig II guy is the reason Ring saw the light of day? That’s a terrifyingly delicate string of events behind arguably one of the greatest pieces of media ever created.

  • @LordKlavier
    @LordKlavier Před 3 dny

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @charlieschultz3902
    @charlieschultz3902 Před 3 dny

    What do you make your videos with?

  • @fuqeoffe2939
    @fuqeoffe2939 Před 4 dny

    gonna have to ask you to pull your head out of your ass if you actually believe the japanese were not fanatically devoted to their emperor, or if you believe the nukes were worse than the firebombings. it's almost as if the japanese really did take their whole "never surrender, no matter what" mentality too far

  • @allaware1971
    @allaware1971 Před 4 dny

    Teddy's life is like a videogame.

  • @UltimaSigmarAlonso
    @UltimaSigmarAlonso Před 4 dny

    Roman soldiers who killed him hated math probably