Artaxerxes II: The Genesis of the End for the Achaemenid Empire

Astronaut John Glenn: the First American to Revolve Around the Earth #sponsored

Astronaut John Glenn: the First American to Orbit the Earth #sponsored 14 Mar 2025 --- #biography #nasa #spacetravel Check out Manta Sleep at https://tinyurl.com/acdnsx7s and use code BIOGRAPHICS for 10% off your purchase. Thanks to Manta sleep 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: The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn by Alice George, Chicago Review Press 2021 Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Crazy Horse: The Lakota Leader Who Rebelled Against the American Government #sponsored

Crazy Horse: The Lakota Leader Who Defied the American Government #sponsored 22 Mar 2025 --- #biography #history #nativeamerican 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/BIOGRAPHICS and use code BIOGRAPHICS for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com → 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: Edward Clown Family, as told to William Matson - Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy Kingsley M. Bray - Crazy Horse - A Lakota Life https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/crazy-horse https://aktalakota.stjo.org/american-indian-leaders/crazy-horse/ https://www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/crazy-horse.htm https://www.armyheritage.org/soldier-stories-information/crazy-horse/ https://crazyhorsememorial.org/the-story/crazy-horse---tasunke-witco Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Anne Bonny: History's Most Notorious Pirate Woman

Anne Bonny: History's Most Infamous Female Pirate 9 Jan 2024 --- Blackbeard, Henry Every, William Kidd, Bartholomew Roberts…They were some of the most infamous pirates in history and they all had one thing in common - we’ve covered them all on Biographics. Okay, they had two things in common - they were also all men. There is no doubt that piracy was a man’s game, but exceptions did exist. In China, Ching Shih became one of the most successful pirates in history, and even here in local waters, we have Anne Bonny who gave up an easy life as the daughter of a rich plantation owner to follow her true calling, raise the black flag and sail the seven seas. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out ourother 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: Captain Charles Johnson - A General History of the Pyrates Phillip Thomas Tucker - Anne Bonny The Infamous Female Pirate https://www.postandcourier.com/news/the-true-and-false-stories-of-anne-bonny-pirate-woman-of-the-caribbean/article_e7fc1e2c-101d-11e8-90b7-9fdf20ba62f8.html https://www.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate.htm https://www.worldhistory.org/Anne_Bonny/ https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-anne-bonny-2136375 https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00john/ https://www.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate.htm https://www.worldhistory.org/Calico_Jack/ https://archive.org/details/annebonnyinfamou0000tuck/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.postandcourier.com/news/the-true-and-false-stories-of-anne-bonny-pirate-woman-of-the-caribbean/article_e7fc1e2c-101d-11e8-90b7-9fdf20ba62f8.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

John Jacob Astor: The Robber Baron Who Transformed Into America's First Multimillionaire

John Jacob Astor: The Robber Baron Who Became America’s First Multimillionaire 27 Mar 2025 --- #biography #history #capitalism Check out 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 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: Arthur D. Howden Smith - John Jacob Astor Land Lord Of New York Elizabeth L. Gebhard - The life and ventures of the original John Jacob Astor Boston: The Biographical Society - The twentieth-century biographical dictionary of notable Americans https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2012/07/a-fortune-made-from-fur-john-jacob-astor/ https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/john-jacob-astor https://www.history.com/news/john-jacob-astor-americas-first-multi-millionaire Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Ida B Wells - Teacher, Activist, Anti-Lynching Crusader

Ida B Wells - Teacher, Protester, Anti-Lynching Crusader 7 Apr 2025 --- #history #biography #protest → 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: Crusade For Justice by Ida B. Wells https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Wells_Crusade.pdf To Tell The Truth Freely by Mia Bay https://books.google.com/books?id=u1tjq-b2s10C&printsec=frontcover&dq=To+Tell+The+Truth+Freely&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx9aH9t5SKAxULQkEAHULVAB0Q6AF6BAgMEAI  Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings https://books.google.co.za/books?id=OFRGjgtNoZ4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ida:+A+Sword+Among+Lions+by+Paula+J.+Giddings&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGzs71t5SKAxUNQUEAHfW2AfoQ6AF6BAgKEAI  References https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett https://blogs.memphis.edu/benhooksinstitute/2015/09/30/memphis-and-the-lynching-at-the-curve/ https://lynchingsitesmem.org/lynching/peoples-grocery-lynchings-thomas-moss-will-stewart-calvin-mcdowell https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/peoples-grocery-lynchings/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/29/negroes-and-the-gun-a-winchester-in-every-black-home/ https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/fighting-for-social-reform/ida-b-wells/  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ida-B-Wells-Barnett  https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/ida-b-wells/ida-b-wells-and-chicago-black-settlement-house https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/08/16/a-proclamation-on-the-establishment-of-the-springfield-1908-race-riot-national-monument/ https://naacp.org/about/our-history#:~:text=Our%20work%20and%20our%20activists,civil%20rights%20and%20social%20justice. https://www.nps.gov/people/idabwells.htm#:~:text=Though%20she%20is%20considered%20a,Alpha%20Suffrage%20Club%20in%20Chicago. https://www.lwvchicago.org/news/ida-b-wells-suffrage-club https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/online_exhibits/100_documents/1913-il-suffarge-act.html#:~:text=The%20Document%3A%20On%20June%2026,right%20to%20vote%20for%20President. https://www.nps.gov/articles/woman-suffrage-procession1913.htm https://www.vox.com/22995013/anti-lynching-act-emmett-till https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]