HERNAN CORTÉS: The Conquistador Who Destroyed the Aztec Empire

Charlotte Corday: Angel of the Slaying

Charlotte Corday: Angel of Assassination 23 Jan 2024 --- It is one of the most famous works of art of the 18th Century, painted by French artist Jacques-Louis David. A man, sitting in his bathtub, slumps slightly to his right. His hands lightly clutch the instruments of his profession – and his power: a pen and a letter. A small wound, just below his right collarbone oozes blood. On the floor, we can see the murder weapon, a stained knife. The image is realistic, yet solemn. It conveys the dignity, even in death, of the man portrayed. His name was Jean-Paul Marat, a friend of the artist, later hailed as a martyr of the French Revolution. Just outside the confines of the frame, the drama is not over yet. A young woman has been beaten, struck with a chair, and thrown to the ground. Until that afternoon, that woman was a young and sheltered aristocrat, whose involvement with the politics of the French Revolution was limited to heated drawing room discussions. But this afternoon, that young woman has decided to take action, and strike at the man who, in her eyes, represents tyranny. Her name is Charlotte Corday, later immortalized by author Alphonse de Lamartine as a brave and gracious angel, enacting God’s justice: ‘The Angel of Assassination’. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/@FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/@wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://it.everand.com/article/444669537/The-Murder-That-Reignited-The-Revolution https://it.everand.com/article/444669896/Daughters-Of-The-Storm https://www.jstor.org/stable/42705725 https://www.jstor.org/stable/286725 https://vodkaster.telerama.fr/series-tv/secrets-d-histoire/63521/s02e06 https://www.historyhit.com/the-angel-of-assassination-who-was-charlotte-corday/ https://books.google.fr/books?id=VMkJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141&dq=%22Charlotte+Corday%22+%2B+lagarde#v=onepage&q=%22Charlotte%20Corday%22%20%2B%20lagarde&f=false https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/charlotte-corday https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/obl4he/frenchrevolution/10_marieannecharlotte_corday.html https://francerevisited.com/2012/07/charlotte-corday-and-the-bathtub-assassination-of-jean-paul-marat/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

THE PRAETORIAN GUARD: The SOLDIERS Who Changed the Course of ROMAN HISTORY

THE PRAETORIAN GUARD: The BODYGUARDS Who Shaped the Course of ROMAN HISTORY 9 Aug 2024 --- Go to https://tryfum.com/BIOGRAPHICS or scan the QR code and use code BIOGRAPHICS to get your free FÜM Topper when you order your Journey Pack today! → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Tacitus - The Annals Suetonius - Lives of the Caesars Cassius Dio - Roman History Ross Cowan - Roman Guardsman 62 BC-AD 324 https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/831/1.0099480/2 https://www.worldhistory.org/Praetorian_Guard/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-praetorian-guard/ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/praetorian-guard https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/the-emperors-fatal-servants/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html#79-20 https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-4.13/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/74*.html#11 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/67*.html#15 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Vitellius*.html#17 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Vitellius*.html#10 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Galba*.html#26 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Galba*.html#2 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Galba*.html#9 https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-4484 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/claudius.shtml https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html#58 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html#56 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/58*.html#biography https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/4A*.html#8 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html#21.6 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gladiators/naumachia.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Castra_Praetoria.html https://www.academia.edu/97062892/Roman_Guardsman_62_BC_AD_324_proof_ https://www.academia.edu/97062892/Roman_Guardsman_62_BC_AD_324_proof_ https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110928163910501 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/praetorian-guard Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Ronald Hunkeler: The Boy That Sparked The Exorcist

Ronald Hunkeler: The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist. 25 May 2024 --- On May 10, 2020, a former NASA engineer named Ronald Hunkeler died from a stroke a month before his 86th birthday. After his passing, he was mainly remembered for his contributions to space explorations, including work on the Apollo space missions and even a patent on a technology that helped panels withstand extreme heat. Then, about a year later, a magazine exposé revealed the bizarre, sinister, and unique experience that Hunkeler endured when he was a boy, one which he kept private during his adult life. In his youth, Hunkeler was better known under the pseudonym Roland Doe, a 14-year-old boy who was believed to be possessed by the devil and underwent several exorcisms. His case, although it did not make any major national waves, still got mentioned in a few newspapers, including one small piece in the Washington Post which was seen by a student attending Georgetown University by the name of William Peter Blatty. For whatever reason, the story stuck with Blatty, and, two decades later, it inspired him to write a horror novel which then got turned into a movie that changed cinema forever - The Exorcist. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Stuff: Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6Sk2h2WsYMxnGERAH_FbGg OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@UCsz5l0hY67TGoJR0CZiWVnA Free Scifi-Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Link Tree to Other Books and Socials: https://linktr.ee/EricMalikyte Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/@FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/@wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Thomas B. Allen - Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/20/the-exorcist-boy-named-magazine https://nationalpost.com/news/world/inspiration-for-the-movie-the-exorcist-has-been-identified-as-former-nasa-engineer https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/10/demoniac-who-is-roland-doe-the-boy-who-inspired-the-exorcist/ http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/exorcism1949.htm https://www.slu.edu/news/legends-and-lore/st-louis-exorcism.php/index.php Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Harold Shipman: The Killer Doctor

Harold Shipman: The Deadly Doctor 13 Aug 2024 --- Doctors are among the most trusted members of our society. There’s a good reason for this: we entrust them with our most valuable commodity, our health. People share things with their doctors that they keep secret from everyone else, even their closest loved ones. When we are sick or injured, we trust doctors to call upon their vast knowledge of the human body to make us feel better, and in many cases, to keep us alive. This, however, is a story of a doctor who did the exact opposite of what he was supposed to. Harold Shipman took advantage of the tremendous power he held over his patients in order to victimize them. He murdered hundreds of them in a grisly career that spanned over two decades, for no apparent reason other than because he could. For a long time, he was able to get away with it, using the exalted position his profession held in society to assure grieving relatives that their loved one had died a natural death in order to conceal his guilt. #truecrimestories #serialkillerdocumentary #haroldshipman What made Shipman so much more insidious than other serial killers was that he wasn’t killing strangers. He was beloved by his patients; his victims welcomed him into their homes and willingly rolled up their sleeves to receive the injection that would end their lives. He preyed on some of the most vulnerable members of society: elderly women who lived alone. Only after he was caught did people realize the enormity of what he had done: his body count marks him as the world’s most prolific serial murderer. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Prescription for Murder by Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie, Warner Books 2000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Project Gemini: Learning to Pilot in Space

Project Gemini: Learning to Fly in Space 24 Aug 2024 --- #science #nasa #apollo Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/biographics for 10% off on your first purchase of a website/domain using the code BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://www.nasa.gov/project-mercury/ https://www.nasa.gov/people/wernher-von-braun/ https://cahf.ca/james-arthur-chamberlin/ https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/leonard-f-mason-dd-852.html https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-eugene-a-cernan/ https://www.generalmills.com/news/stories/space-food-sticks-went-to-the-moon-too https://www.tvobscurities.com/2016/11/tv-guide-close-up-gemini-4-space-flight-guide/ https://www.nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-the-apollo-1-fire-and-its-aftermath/ https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sputnik-memo https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/what-was-project-mercury-grades-5-8/#:~:text=The%20project%20was%20named%20Mercury,was%20the%20seventh%20one%20made. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/even-astronauts-have-accidents-5375/#:~:text=In%201961%2C%20Alan%20Shepard's%20flight,So%20he%20did. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/even-astronauts-have-accidents-5375/#:~:text=In%201961%2C%20Alan%20Shepard's%20flight,So%20he%20did. https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/spaceflight/life-in-orbit/alan-shepard-pee-pants/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJh3ynr3ZY https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/avro-arrow#:~:text=Though%20the%20Arrow%20was%20widely,25%2C000%20direct%20and%20indirect%20jobs. https://bullockmuseum.medium.com/gemini-9-and-nasas-second-spacewalk-101325a2996d https://www.thewrap.com/eugene-cernan-astronaut-who-carved-daughters-name-on-the-moon-dead-at-82/ Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]