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Where is your video on the Donner Party or the Donner pass??? Seriously their story is perfect for one of your channels. Especially with Yellowjackets being a new hit show and partly basing it on the Donner Party.
If you read a spy novel with a main character like this, you'd roll your eyes at how preposterous he sounded. Real life really is stranger than fiction.
You need to do a Biographics on Gwen Shamblin. She was a millionaire, best-selling author and self-proclaimed prophet of a Christian weight-loss cult. She was a cougar who married Tarzan. The story is crazy, the hair is crazier, and she ultimately died when her private plane crashed on her way to a Trump rally.
He went against most, if not all, of the Afrikaners moral codes. So we did not learn a lot about him. A shame really, he is an incredibly example of what one can do, but also why we need to forgive. (And yes, he is one of my heroes as an Afrikaner)
I mean any real hunter is a conservationist at heart. If all the animals go extinct you can't hunt anymore right? Sometimes, specifically when dealing with invasive species, hunting is the only way to save the native animals. They used helicopters and semi auto rifles to mass slaughter the goats that were rapidly killing the Galapagos Islands back in the 90s. It's actually a super surreal story. They used a radio collar on a "Judas Goat" to track all the wild goats, and then would shoot every goat except the Judas Goat and he would go find more goats. Rinse and repeat, couple hundred dead goats later and hunting saved the Galapagos.
Would honestly love a video of Jack Sheppard (or Honest Jack). 18th century thief and escape artist. Escaped prison four times (including one prison which was meant to be impossible to escape)
There is so much unknown about what he really did that you pretty much could make a movie about his life and nobody could really argue how or how not historically accurate it is.
2:45 - Chapter 1 - Early life in africa 4:50 - Chapter 2 - The black panther of the veld 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Going to america 13:45 - Chapter 4 - Sabotage in south america 17:55 - Chapter 5 - The spy ring that never was - Chapter 6 -
Another lesson (one that Uncle Sam would do well to remember): Blowback can be a bitch! Fancy telling holocaust victims to just forget the holocaust and move on. Kitchener's actions were essentially genocidal - it's just that Britain won the Boer War and so swept his crimes against humanity under the rug.
How about you do a biographic on Charles Upham, he annoyed the Nazis and made them look stupid at every turn, doesn't get much more legendary than that
@@Ricky_Bobby2314 The guy was such a bad ass he literally ordered enemy soldiers to help him dig his Jeep out of the sand, by sheer brazenness and no doubt confusion on the part of the Italian soldiers who saw the size of his brass balls and didn't want none.
Absolutely agree, he was a fearless humanitatian who held all governments in South Africa to a high standard, found them all wanting and was not afraid to say so loudly and clearly. A great blessing and a great loss.
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This is an excellent biographics video. Videos like this are the reason I love this CZcams channel. Incredibly well put together and interesting. This is also top tier Simon as well. Recently it feels like the biographics videos have been more casual. A lot of his other shows like business blaze are very freeform and laid back. Love how this one is a little more informational and formal. When someo
I did a project on him in school and all my research convinced me that while some of the stories are true, most of them are proof he was a pathological liar and fantasist.
Yes and no. I did research on him as well. I think he was a man with an incredible amount of pain. He literally had a death wish. Although his stories might be exaggerated, I always got the impression that he took on crimes that wasn't his. Not only because he liked the fame, but also because he lost his interest in the world and protected some people who didn't (if that makes sense)
Simon!!! You should do a video on the self proclaimed emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton. This guy was a certificate legend, stopped a huge riot, and the kingdom of Hawaii even recognized his rule over “the other government”.
Britain's attempted genocide of the Boers has been well documented. It's just that they won the war and so their genocidal actions have been swept under the historical rug.
Just do abit of a dig into South African history that includes Afrikaans sources and you will find the true shameful history. The whole world knows about apartheid, which was horrific and should never have happened, but no one knows that the roots of apartheid lay in the British treatment of the Afrikaans people - from banning them from certain jobs, to banning the use of Afrikaans and forcing the teaching of English in schools, etc. Die Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) has a lot of this recorded history. I'm sure google translate will be able to assist with translation. If not, feel free to contact me. Many Afrikaners hated the British - even my parents in law hated them. so not so far back in history either. And the concentration camps were very bad. Millions of women and children starved and died of preventable illness and the Brits did that to ensure that the Boer army would have no support system in the war.
I agree. For years afterwards it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended. Even today it takes a lot of time before your family accepts them.
@@BTScriviner More like he'd fit right in CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, Vice, and The Guardian today. He'd have a field day dominating the internet and the public space.
Please do Robey Leibbrandt - he was a RSA boxer who competed at the 1936 Olympics, became a Nazi agent who attempted to assassinate Jan Smuts and get South Africa absorbed into the Third Reich. Really interesting stuff!
It would seem as if perhaps the former GB would bear at least Some responsibility for how Duquesne became the vengeance filled person whom he did. At least that's the position I've watched you express in other videos, specifically the ones about people who are abused while young, and then become psychopaths. Or am I missing something here?
My gg-father (1874-1980) was also at Ladysmith, where he captured a British canon that would have enabled him to fire it on the british from that position, but he instead buried it at the foot of a kopje, telling me he regretted not attending artillery school in Pretoria prior to the conflict. He was also at Talana, Hlobane, Vryheid and the train incident near Ladysmith where the british peer who was also a war correspondent was captured. He rode with spurs at 88. That was the type of righteous men they were, always formally dressed even when working in the fields, with all the attire of men, watch on chain, pocket knife, pipe paraphernalia, breaches, hat, tie. Fearing only God and leaving vengeance to Him, never spoke in hate, not even about the british despite all.. Real men know when to stop hate and live in peace. I promised to go dig up the gun at the first chance, and he drew a map but I never got around to it. The gun must be rusty by now and certainly obsolete so no point really.
My great great grandfather (1878 - 1952) was also part of the second boer war but was captured in early 1902 and shipped off to St. Helena island as a POW. He survived the war and went on to have 10 kids! My grandfather went on to marry a british lady so now im kinda in the middle of it all,but I digress,the guys back in the day were truly made of steel
@@ludwigheuer2599 I don't have the map anymore. But the salient fact is that it was buried a little above the road that goes around the koppie. I don't know which koppie but he said from their position they could have shelled the town. I don't onow if this was one of the guns the british used to hamper the ill conceived attempt to flood the town dumping soil in the river (it would never have worked). I'll ask my mother, maybe she remembers.
Simon doesn't know what ingredients go into beer? Sounds like someone stumbled across a today I found out subject! Or actually a Brain Blaze about the worst alcoholic beverage flops.
Thanks for this Bio Read the Boer War written by Thomas Pakenham. Still one of the best books on the Boer war. Thomas stated the cause of the Boer war as the "Gold Bugs in England. In 1902 there were more British soldiers in South Africa than there were men, women and children in the Free State and Transvaal combined. The surrender was followed by the Brits not honouring their promises. 12% Of the population of the Boer states's population, mostly women and children, was murdred in concentration camps by the British. Read the book Commando by Denys Reitz, Pakenham's Boer War and about Emily Hobhouse. She was a British nurse that worked in the concentration camps and fought against the treatment of the people there.
12% we know of... There are still mass graves that show that the number might have been higher. There's a reason why it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended for years afterwards.
i got a video suggestion for you. how aboutt a video about Jean Bernadotte that was one of Napoleons generals and ended up as the sweedish monarch known under the name Charles XIV John (English name) or if prefearing the sweedish/norwegian name Karl XIV Johan in sweeden and Karl III Johan in norway. i have read a book about him and its defenitly a interesting history that i think people will enjoy
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Big brain 🧠 you don't know what beer 🍺 is made with 🤦🏻♂️such a Legend, allegedly
Do nicolae caeusescu next
Where is your video on the Donner Party or the Donner pass??? Seriously their story is perfect for one of your channels. Especially with Yellowjackets being a new hit show and partly basing it on the Donner Party.
This is a bit unrelated to your comment, but could you make an episode on T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)?
Would be interesting.
Make a video on the Mad Baron
This one was amazing, a man filled with hatred and sadness is an extremely powerful force.
Glad to see you did a South African Biography Simon, makes us South Africans very happy 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Didn't he do one on Desmond Tutu and Mandela
This man was the incarnation of the term: *_No Remorse, No Regret!_*
If you read a spy novel with a main character like this, you'd roll your eyes at how preposterous he sounded. Real life really is stranger than fiction.
How is vengeance preposterous?
@@mwi3865 Never heard of Donald J Trump?
@@malcolmnorton2217 how is he relevant?
I know he was not a good guy, but neither were the monsters that created him. what a legend, I found myself rooting for him
Why wasn't he a good guy? His country and family was attacked, just retaliated, well done on him
You need to do a Biographics on Gwen Shamblin. She was a millionaire, best-selling author and self-proclaimed prophet of a Christian weight-loss cult. She was a cougar who married Tarzan. The story is crazy, the hair is crazier, and she ultimately died when her private plane crashed on her way to a Trump rally.
I need to hear about this.
I thought I knew my South African & Anglo-Boer War history well, but I have never heard of FJD. Thank you for this interesting video.
He went against most, if not all, of the Afrikaners moral codes. So we did not learn a lot about him. A shame really, he is an incredibly example of what one can do, but also why we need to forgive. (And yes, he is one of my heroes as an Afrikaner)
Col. James (Jim) Corbett, the Hunter. Incredible story of how conservation and human preservation can go hand in hand!
Yes that man was a great hunter but cared enough to stop extinction.
I mean any real hunter is a conservationist at heart. If all the animals go extinct you can't hunt anymore right?
Sometimes, specifically when dealing with invasive species, hunting is the only way to save the native animals.
They used helicopters and semi auto rifles to mass slaughter the goats that were rapidly killing the Galapagos Islands back in the 90s. It's actually a super surreal story.
They used a radio collar on a "Judas Goat" to track all the wild goats, and then would shoot every goat except the Judas Goat and he would go find more goats. Rinse and repeat, couple hundred dead goats later and hunting saved the Galapagos.
Would honestly love a video of Jack Sheppard (or Honest Jack). 18th century thief and escape artist. Escaped prison four times (including one prison which was meant to be impossible to escape)
I wonder if Fritz knew Bat Masterson while writing for the Herald. That would be a very interesting conversation
Just want to check that Simon does breath now and again. These bio's are like machine gun fire of facts and history. Fantastic stuff 👏
Would be great to get a video on Paul Kruger, such an interesting story.
There is so much unknown about what he really did that you pretty much could make a movie about his life and nobody could really argue how or how not historically accurate it is.
2:45 - Chapter 1 - Early life in africa
4:50 - Chapter 2 - The black panther of the veld
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Going to america
13:45 - Chapter 4 - Sabotage in south america
17:55 - Chapter 5 - The spy ring that never was
- Chapter 6 -
Well done.
Thank you for your time.
This guy is the Bob Saget of the early 20th century geopolitical scene, knows everyone and had a finger in everything.
Would love if you could do one day the biography of Sasaki Kojiro, much appreciated!
I love that glint in Simon’s eye when he talks about the lack of hippos state side.
Those that look fate in the eye before utterly defying it without a second thought are people of legend.
Fritz was one of those people.
I guess the lesson here is that anger, bitterness, and revenge can destroy a man's life and destiny
Another lesson (one that Uncle Sam would do well to remember): Blowback can be a bitch! Fancy telling holocaust victims to just forget the holocaust and move on. Kitchener's actions were essentially genocidal - it's just that Britain won the Boer War and so swept his crimes against humanity under the rug.
How about you do a biographic on Charles Upham, he annoyed the Nazis and made them look stupid at every turn, doesn't get much more legendary than that
@@Ricky_Bobby2314 The guy was such a bad ass he literally ordered enemy soldiers to help him dig his Jeep out of the sand, by sheer brazenness and no doubt confusion on the part of the Italian soldiers who saw the size of his brass balls and didn't want none.
This guy is the actual definition of a Mad Lad
What a legend !
Great story. Never heard of him. This would make a great movie.
Biographics suggestion: Field Marshal August von Mackensen.
Damn, I can't believe I never heard of him, he was a fascinating man. I am going to see what else I can find out about him.
I mean I can't blame him if someone did that to my family I'd probably hate them too.
I'd love if you guys made a video about Thomas Mann.
You should do a biographics on Desmond TuTu. Major South African figure and human rights activist who sadly passed away recently
Booooooooriiiiiiinnnnng....
That's boring
Absolutely agree, he was a fearless humanitatian who held all governments in South Africa to a high standard, found them all wanting and was not afraid to say so loudly and clearly. A great blessing and a great loss.
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Cardinal Richelieu
George III
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Elizabeth I of Russia
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Pedro II of Brazil
William T. Sherman
George H. Thomas
This is probably my favorite of them all,Simon. Lol
He has to be in a Wilbur Smith novel. I just can't exactly recall which one, or if it was a Courtney or Ballantyne one.
Please do one about William of Orange
William III of England I presume
There was more than one William of Orange
@@leighpowell1062 Why not both?
This is an excellent biographics video. Videos like this are the reason I love this CZcams channel. Incredibly well put together and interesting.
This is also top tier Simon as well. Recently it feels like the biographics videos have been more casual. A lot of his other shows like business blaze are very freeform and laid back. Love how this one is a little more informational and formal.
When someo
Being Irish-Boer descent, I'm all about sticking to the British. How did I not know about this absolute legend till now?
I think the world needs a biographics video on Victoria Woodhull. Incredible woman
I did a project on him in school and all my research convinced me that while some of the stories are true, most of them are proof he was a pathological liar and fantasist.
Yes and no. I did research on him as well. I think he was a man with an incredible amount of pain. He literally had a death wish. Although his stories might be exaggerated, I always got the impression that he took on crimes that wasn't his. Not only because he liked the fame, but also because he lost his interest in the world and protected some people who didn't (if that makes sense)
Simon, you should do an episode on Milunka Savic, the most-decorated female combatant in the recorded history of warfare.
Simon!!! You should do a video on the self proclaimed emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton. This guy was a certificate legend, stopped a huge riot, and the kingdom of Hawaii even recognized his rule over “the other government”.
Thanks
I would be very interested in a Shaka Zulu biographic
Agree. Although it is hard to get true facts. The man was a genius that changed the way the Zulus protected themselves.
If the British authorities did to my family what they supposedly did to his, I would give them all the hell I could too.
Britain's attempted genocide of the Boers has been well documented. It's just that they won the war and so their genocidal actions have been swept under the historical rug.
Just do abit of a dig into South African history that includes Afrikaans sources and you will find the true shameful history. The whole world knows about apartheid, which was horrific and should never have happened, but no one knows that the roots of apartheid lay in the British treatment of the Afrikaans people - from banning them from certain jobs, to banning the use of Afrikaans and forcing the teaching of English in schools, etc. Die Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) has a lot of this recorded history. I'm sure google translate will be able to assist with translation. If not, feel free to contact me. Many Afrikaners hated the British - even my parents in law hated them. so not so far back in history either. And the concentration camps were very bad. Millions of women and children starved and died of preventable illness and the Brits did that to ensure that the Boer army would have no support system in the war.
@@jontheb123 I don't think you understand the difference between genocide and war crimes.
I agree. For years afterwards it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended. Even today it takes a lot of time before your family accepts them.
Kind of seems like a real-life, chaotic, neutral D&D character.
definitely an oath of vengeance paladin with a dip into ranger
He is a hero in my books
Christ, Duquesne's life reads and sounds like a Call Me Kevin Bitlife session
Do you ever wonder if you'll be a similar story in the future? "The guy on the 'internet' who told stories about the past."
Duquesne got a job in journalism by making up stories, huh? Guess some things truly never change.
He'd fit right in at Fox News or OAN today.
@@BTScriviner More like he'd fit right in CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, Vice, and The Guardian today. He'd have a field day dominating the internet and the public space.
@@nicholasjeremyson Oh, poor triggered snowflake. ❄️
I could almost feel sorry for this guy and the path he took in life, if only he had not thrown in with the Nazi's.
Although the Nazi's did some horrific things during the war, It has been shown that the British were no angels during the second Boer war.
@@the-eye-is-watching Their rarely are angels in any war.
Would it be possible to see a video about Chalino sánchez? He certainly had an interesting life
Please do Robey Leibbrandt - he was a RSA boxer who competed at the 1936 Olympics, became a Nazi agent who attempted to assassinate Jan Smuts and get South Africa absorbed into the Third Reich. Really interesting stuff!
Could you possibly do more African historical figures such as Thomas Sankara or Patrice Lumumba, please?
King Lobongula perhaps?
@@dylanmaier3055 he's Zimbabwean though *Lobengula
It would seem as if perhaps the former GB would bear at least Some responsibility for how Duquesne became the vengeance filled person whom he did. At least that's the position I've watched you express in other videos, specifically the ones about people who are abused while young, and then become psychopaths. Or am I missing something here?
Imagine this guy showing up to demand your overdue newspaper subscription payment.
My gg-father (1874-1980) was also at Ladysmith, where he captured a British canon that would have enabled him to fire it on the british from that position, but he instead buried it at the foot of a kopje, telling me he regretted not attending artillery school in Pretoria prior to the conflict. He was also at Talana, Hlobane, Vryheid and the train incident near Ladysmith where the british peer who was also a war correspondent was captured. He rode with spurs at 88. That was the type of righteous men they were, always formally dressed even when working in the fields, with all the attire of men, watch on chain, pocket knife, pipe paraphernalia, breaches, hat, tie. Fearing only God and leaving vengeance to Him, never spoke in hate, not even about the british despite all.. Real men know when to stop hate and live in peace. I promised to go dig up the gun at the first chance, and he drew a map but I never got around to it. The gun must be rusty by now and certainly obsolete so no point really.
My great great grandfather (1878 - 1952) was also part of the second boer war but was captured in early 1902 and shipped off to St. Helena island as a POW. He survived the war and went on to have 10 kids! My grandfather went on to marry a british lady so now im kinda in the middle of it all,but I digress,the guys back in the day were truly made of steel
What a wonderful history to have as a family!
Please tell me more about the map. I stay in Ladysmith and know most of the koppies. Found gold coin from boer war. Would love to hunt for the cannon.
@@ludwigheuer2599 I don't have the map anymore.
But the salient fact is that it was buried a little above the road that goes around the koppie. I don't know which koppie but he said from their position they could have shelled the town. I don't onow if this was one of the guns the british used to hamper the ill conceived attempt to flood the town dumping soil in the river (it would never have worked). I'll ask my mother, maybe she remembers.
Kitchener would be another good episode to do at some point.
Boer like Moor, gosh I cant lie, but as much as I love this channel this mispronunciation absolutely killed me
Hey thanks for the video
You should cover Michael the Brave.
Amazing episode! You need to do one for Jesse James, suprised you haven't
Sounds like a right bullshitter to me, kind of like my uncle really, only the uncle hasn't gone anywhere outside the country, despite his claims... :P
Crazy story. Thank you
Simon your beard looks awesome.
Simon doesn't know what ingredients go into beer? Sounds like someone stumbled across a today I found out subject! Or actually a Brain Blaze about the worst alcoholic beverage flops.
Guess Simon is gonna do a show on beer soon. Just watch
Evelyn Wood (British army officer).
3k views in the first hour. Good job, Brain Boy! Big Brain.
He was wronged and sworn an oath of eternal vengeance, even if it ment the damning of his soul to hell.
Good video 👍
Gesh what guy. Reminds me of the guy in Catch me if you Can (I can't remember the guys name) but you know that Guy.
Thanks for this Bio
Read the Boer War written by Thomas Pakenham. Still one of the best books on the Boer war. Thomas stated the cause of the Boer war as the "Gold Bugs in England.
In 1902 there were more British soldiers in South Africa than there were men, women and children in the Free State and Transvaal combined. The surrender was followed by the Brits not honouring their promises.
12% Of the population of the Boer states's population, mostly women and children, was murdred in concentration camps by the British.
Read the book Commando by Denys Reitz, Pakenham's Boer War and about Emily Hobhouse. She was a British nurse that worked in the concentration camps and fought against the treatment of the people there.
12% we know of... There are still mass graves that show that the number might have been higher.
There's a reason why it was taboo for Afrikaners to marry an English descended for years afterwards.
You can't blame the guy.
Make a video about yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević
"...occasional bouts of treason" made me think of something I'd hear on the "History Matters" channel.
I'd watch that movie.
Please make video about Oskar Dirlewanger
Thanks for doing this one.
Urban legend. Nobody in Modimolle or Nylstroom knows anybody of him.
How isn’t this guy more famous?
Because he is a white South African. A Boer.
screaming at “boas” like the snakes instead of “boors”
i’m fine with that mispronunciation because it’s fitting but it’sHILARIOUS
Sounds like he could tell a tall story.
Agreed. I wonder how much of this is even verified historical fact.
Make a video on the Mad Baron
A true Mad Lad
you should do one on luka magnotta
Do TOLSTOY next!
Could You do a video on Andreas Vesalius ?
i got a video suggestion for you. how aboutt a video about Jean Bernadotte that was one of Napoleons generals and ended up as the sweedish monarch known under the name Charles XIV John (English name) or if prefearing the sweedish/norwegian name Karl XIV Johan in sweeden and Karl III Johan in norway.
i have read a book about him and its defenitly a interesting history that i think people will enjoy
So shocking his first murder was a Zulu in “self defense”
Sounds like an Absolute Mad Lad.
This dude was literally a super villain goddamn
Could you do a documentary on the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam and his lover Kick Kennedy?
Seems like his life waS AN ADVENTURE.
I'm glad he managed to find his mother.
Seems like he was totally justified in his hated for the brits
I cannot hold this man at fault for his actions. The rape of my sister would be justification.
Was he though? The problem with Duquesne is that he was a compulsive liar and most of his story is completely unverified.
He’s a hero in my books.
Love him
Leo better get the rights for this film.
How is there no Netflix series on this is guy is bonker
Suggested Bio, Robert 'Rabbie' Burns, Scottish Bard please?
A movie worthy life
I wonder what would win, Hippo v. Mississippi River alligator?
In a 1v1? Hippo everytime. Pretty sure they can bite Nile crocodiles in half. You dont mess with hippos.
Alligators are nothing but an aquatic goanna, even a baby hippo would own one!