Stanley Kubrick: The Visual Genius

Madeleine Albright: A Fugitive in the West Wing

Madeleine Albright: A Refugee in the West Wing 10 Dec 2024 --- #history #biography #historyfacts → 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: Madam Secretary, Thomas Blood https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Madam_Secretary/Ra5_AQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thomas+blood+madam+secretary&printsec=frontcover Madam Secretary, Madeleine Albright https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Madam_Secretary/G2mI-PlvLo0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=madam+secretary+madeleine+albright&printsec=frontcover Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st Century Memoir, Madeleine Albright https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/Hell_and_Other_Destinations/uThkEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=inauthor:%22Madeleine+Albright%22&printsec=frontcover Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Körbel Albright (1937–2022) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/madeleine-albright-dead.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/albright020497.htm https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/madeleine-albright-is-born https://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/albright-memoir-her-jewish-secret-075520#:~:text=Even%20though%20she%20has%20spent,fully%20a%20part%20of%20it.%E2%80%9D https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/02/04/albrights-family-tragedy-comes-to-light/ebc47711-4a4b-4e9a-b813-5d543c163e01/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/communists-take-power-in-czechoslovakia https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/out-of-office/madeleine-albright-dead-84-mika-brzezinski-remembers-first-secretary-state-n1292931 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1999/05/02/becoming-madeleine-albright/00193605-9959-442a-9f80-a6a8fd55a8bf/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/geraldine-ferraro-unprecedented-1984-campaign-vice-president-180975491/ https://www.georgetown.edu/news/bill-and-hillary-clinton-u-s-and-foreign-policymakers-remember-madeleine-albright-at-georgetown-symposium/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB469/ https://apnews.com/article/madeleine-albright-diplomacy-belgrade-serbia-europe-0f3d82c0417f061f48b092812a1bc609 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-30/albright-firm-eyes-kosovos-contested-state-telecom https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/interviews/albright.html https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2021/03/23/the-blob-abides-492214 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-02-fi-rup2.5-story.html https://www.huffpost.com/entry/at-colby-albright-endorse_n_73384 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/opinion/madeleine-albright-my-undiplomatic-moment.html https://time.com/5793743/madeleine-albright-100-women-of-the-year/ https://www.forbes.com/50over50/2021/ https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/03/madeleine-albright-a-life-of-courage-and-commitment/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Klaus Fuchs: The Nuclear Informant

Klaus Fuchs: The Nuclear Spy 8 May 2024 --- The release of the hit film Oppenheimer has led to increased public interest in the true story of the Manhattan Project, the effort of a combined team of American and British scientists to create the atomic bomb during World War II. The film accurately shows the conflicted emotions those scientists had about their work, which resulted in the development of the most destructive weapon mankind has ever known, as well as efforts from the Soviet Union to acquire the secrets of the bomb for themselves through the use of spies. The USSR’s chief spy in the Manhattan Project was also instrumental in its creation: Klaus Fuchs (Author’s Note: Pronounced FEWKS). Fuchs was considered one of the UK’s top scientific minds, and was recruited to work on the atomic bomb project almost from the very beginning of it. Exiled from his native Germany by the rise of Hitler, Fuchs was happy to work on the bomb project because he believed it was necessary to defeat the Nazis. What not even his closest friends and associates realized, however, was that Fuchs was also a devoted Communist who was passing on all the nuclear secrets he was learning to Soviet agents. Unlike other spies, Fuchs wasn’t motivated by money: he was a true believer in the effectiveness of the Communist system to heal society’s ills, and also that the Western Allies shouldn’t have a monopoly on the atomic bomb: if world peace was to be maintained, a balance of power was required. He continued passing information to the Soviets until he was caught in 1949, much to the embarrassment of the British security services, who had identified him as a possible security risk for years but done nothing about it. His information accelerated the progress of the USSR’s own bomb project, making him, potentially, one of the most consequential spies in history. → 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 Get Echoes of Olympus Mons free by signing up to Eric's Newsletter: 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: Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, Penguin Random House 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Vital Message on Ptolemy I Pronunciation #biography #kingshistory

Important PSA about Ptolemy I Pronunciation #biography #kingshistory 1 Jun 2024 --- Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2WINU2D0cM → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's 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: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Christopher Plummer: Seven Decades of Accomplishment

Christopher Plummer: Seven Decades of Excellence 4 Jan 2024 --- In 1965, the musical film The Sound of Music, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name, appeared to huge international success. The film’s popularity led it to surpass Gone With the Wind as the biggest box office hit of all time, and reaffirmed the superstardom of singer-actress Julie Andrews. It also vaulted a hitherto unknown lead actor, Christopher Plummer, into the front rank of film actors. Unknown, that is, to mainstream film audiences. By 1965, Christopher Plummer was a well known and highly regarded stage actor, having earned considerable plaudits for performances on New York’s Broadway, London’s West End, and in Shakespeare festivals and repertories in the United States, Britain, and Canada. His career, which eventually spanned over seven decades, led him to winning Best Actor Awards for theater (Tony Award), film (Academy Award), and television (Primetime Emmy Award), the so-called Triple Crown of Acting. To date, he remains the only Canadian to be thus decorated. His performances displayed a diversity seldom matched, ranging from traditional Hamlet and King Lear to the Klingon General Chang in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country. As Chang, he observed that Shakespeare should be read in its original Klingon. On stage, film, and television he portrayed historical figures, such as the Duke of Wellington and Kaiser Wilhelm II; actors, such as John Barrymore; the billionaire J. Paul Getty, and television correspondent Mike Wallace. He also portrayed Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, the Roman Emperor Commodus, the Conquistador Juan Pizarro, and many more too numerous to list. Yet he became largely known and connected with his role as Von Trapp, a role he frequently spoke of disparagingly, calling it “…a bit like flogging a dead horse”. Eventually he came to regard the film and his role in it more fondly, though he did ask The Guardian in 2018, “Don’t these people ever see another movie? Is this the only one they’ve ever seen?” Compared to his body of work the question begs an answer. → 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://www.imdb.com/list/ls041289415/ https://variety.com/2021/film/news/william-shatner-christopher-plummer-1234904276/ https://torontolife.com/city/christopher-plummer-the-last-great-leading-man/ https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps-html https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/19/all-the-money-in-the-world-review-getty-kevin-spacey-christopher-plummer-ridley-scott https://apnews.com/article/christopher-plummer-dead-2bb1793ebb13dac2a6c070e80a5f3698 https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2021/02/05/legendary-canadian-actor-christopher-plummer-dies-at-91.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Apollo Program Part 1: America's Race to Space

Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics [http://squarespace.com/biographics] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using 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 [https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1] Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw] TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet [https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet] Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb [https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb] Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant [https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant] OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint [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/ [https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/] Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine [https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine] Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood [https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood] Further Reading: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/lw/103729.htm#:~:text=On%20October%204%2C%201957%2C%20the,first%20artificial%20satellite%2C%20Sputnik%20I. [https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/lw/103729.htm#:~:text=On%20October%204%2C%201957%2C%20the,first%20artificial%20satellite%2C%20Sputnik%20I.] https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-vanguard-fails-to-reach-orbit/ [https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-vanguard-fails-to-reach-orbit/]  https://www.britannica.com/technology/Sputnik [https://www.britannica.com/technology/Sputnik] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/sputnik#:~:text=The%20successful%20launch%20came%20as,accomplish%20this%20scientific%20advancement%20first.&text=The%20fact%20that%20the%20Soviets,behind%20in%20developing%20new%20technology. [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/sputnik#:~:text=The%20successful%20launch%20came%20as,accomplish%20this%20scientific%20advancement%20first.&text=The%20fact%20that%20the%20Soviets,behind%20in%20developing%20new%20technology.] https://www.nasa.gov/history/explorer-1-overview/ [https://www.nasa.gov/history/explorer-1-overview/] https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60counting/begin.html#:~:text=In%20July%201958%2C%20Eisenhower%20had,1%2C%201958. [https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60counting/begin.html#:~:text=In%20July%201958%2C%20Eisenhower%20had,1%2C%201958.] https://www.nasa.gov/reference/the-national-advisory-committee-for-aeronautics/ [https://www.nasa.gov/reference/the-national-advisory-committee-for-aeronautics/] https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-decision-to-go-to-the-moon/#:~:text=On%20May%2025%2C%201961%2C%20President,the%20end%20of%20the%20decade. [https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-decision-to-go-to-the-moon/#:~:text=On%20May%2025%2C%201961%2C%20President,the%20end%20of%20the%20decade.] https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/jfk-and-the-moonshot.htm#:~:text=Stepping%20up%20to%20the%20imposing,the%20end%20of%20the%201960s. [https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/jfk-and-the-moonshot.htm#:~:text=Stepping%20up%20to%20the%20imposing,the%20end%20of%20the%201960s.] https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-decision-to-go-to-the-moon/#:~:text=On%20May%2025%2C%201961%2C%20President,the%20end%20of%20the%20decade. [https://www.nasa.gov/history/the-decision-to-go-to-the-moon/#:~:text=On%20May%2025%2C%201961%2C%20President,the%20end%20of%20the%20decade.] https://www.nasa.gov/history/remembering-yuri-gagarin-50-years-later/ [https://www.nasa.gov/history/remembering-yuri-gagarin-50-years-later/] https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/60-years-ago-alan-shepard-becomes-first-american-space/ [https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/60-years-ago-alan-shepard-becomes-first-american-space/] https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/memo-from-vice-president-johnson-to-president-kennedy-lyndon-baines-johnson/IAEh6QLNQklr4g?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5762277142862293%2C%22y%22%3A0.6907969692365101%2C%22z%22%3A9.914406070138874%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A1.6731260809418236%2C%22height%22%3A0.6184060615269797%7D%7D [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/memo-from-vice-president-johnson-to-president-kennedy-lyndon-baines-johnson/IAEh6QLNQklr4g?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5762277142862293%2C%22y%22%3A0.6907969692365101%2C%22z%22%3A9.914406070138874%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A1.6731260809418236%2C%22height%22%3A0.6184060615269797%7D%7D] https://www.nasa.gov/people/wernher-von-braun/ [https://www.nasa.gov/people/wernher-von-braun/] https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/about-johnson/ [https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/about-johnson/] https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/kennedy-space-center-history/ [https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/kennedy-space-center-history/] https://taxfoundation.org/blog/apollo-moon-space-race-industrial-policy-cost/#:~:text=From%201960%20to%201973%2C%20the,a%20man%20on%20the%20moon. [https://taxfoundation.org/blog/apollo-moon-space-race-industrial-policy-cost/#:~:text=From%201960%20to%201973%2C%20the,a%20man%20on%20the%20moon.] https://spaceinsider.tech/2025/02/06/nasas-budget-over-time-a-comprehensive-analysis/#:~:text=1958%E2%80%931970%3A%20The%20Early%20Years%20and%20the%20Apollo%20Era,-The%20Apollo%20days&text=As%20documented%20by%20the%20Planetary,4%25%20of%20the%20federal%20budget. [https://spaceinsider.tech/2025/02/06/nasas-budget-over-time-a-comprehensive-analysis/#:~:text=1958%E2%80%931970%3A%20The%20Early%20Years%20and%20the%20Apollo%20Era,-The%20Apollo%20days&text=As%20documented%20by%20the%20Planetary,4%25%20of%20the%20federal%20budget.] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing [https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731660780/one-giant-leap-explores-the-herculean-effort-behind-the-1969-moon-landing] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/jfk-proposes-joint-lunar-expedition-with-soviets-sept-20-1963-242843 [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/jfk-proposes-joint-lunar-expedition-with-soviets-sept-20-1963-242843] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-proposes-joint-mission-to-the-moon [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-proposes-joint-mission-to-the-moon] https://www.nasa.gov/history/JFK-Webbconv/pages/backgnd.html#:~:text=In%20September%201963%2C%20during%20a,essentially%20made%20the%20proposal%20irrelevant. [https://www.nasa.gov/history/JFK-Webbconv/pages/backgnd.html#:~:text=In%20September%201963%2C%20during%20a,essentially%20made%20the%20proposal%20irrelevant.] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/kenn [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/kenn] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]