Carlo Gambino: The Understated Don Who Controlled the Mafia

Jimmy Hoffa: What Became of America's Most Notorious Union Boss?

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The Dassler Brothers: The Family Conflict That Founded Adidas and Puma

The Dassler Bross: The Family Feud That Created Adidas and Puma 9 Nov 2023 --- “You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.” Anyone who’s ever had a difficult relationship with a sibling can attest to the truthfulness of this statement. Even the closest of brothers have moments that make them wish they’d been born an only child, after all. The Dassler Brothers were, to wit, NOT the closest of siblings. They hated each other so much that they refused to speak to each other. But what makes the feud between the Dassler brothers so unique was that it spilled over from their personal into their professional lives. They split the family shoe making business off into two separate companies that would come to dominate the athleticwear business in a way no one ever had before. The success of their respective companies can, at least in part, be credited to the rivalry between the two brothers, as they pushed their employees to outdo each other as a worldwide audience watched. The feud split apart not only the Dassler family, but their entire hometown as well, as every family was forced to pick a side. The two companies are still household names today, each earning billions annually in sales, still competing against each other for market share, forever locked together by the personal rivalry of their founders. Two men, two brothers who, though they were unable to choose their family, surely wished that they could have. → 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: Sneaker Wars by Barbara Smit, Harper-Collins 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Didius Julianus: The Man Who Sold Himself to the Roman Empire

Didius Julianus: The Man Who Bought the Roman Empire 17 Jul 2024 --- 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 Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Free Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: OEI: Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@UCsz5l0hY67TGoJR0CZiWVnA 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.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-2.5/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Didius_Julianus*.html https://www.livius.org/articles/person/didius-julianus/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Didius_Julianus*.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Didius_Julianus*.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Didius_Julianus*.html https://www.livius.org/articles/person/didius-julianus/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/74*.html https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-2.6/ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/74*.html https://www.livius.org/articles/person/didius-julianus/didius-julianus-2/ https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-2.12/ Cassius Dio - Roman History Herodian - Roman History Historia Augusta https://www.livius.org/articles/person/didius-julianus/ https://www.worldhistory.org/Didius_Julianus/ Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

How Howdy Doody Revolutionized Children's Television Forever #sponsored

How Howdy Doody Changed Children's TV Forever #sponsored 24 Dec 2025 --- 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: Free Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant Cthulhu: Grimoire: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRWTZNXN/ 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.britannica.com/money/DuMont-Television-Network https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-26-ca-2314-story.html https://www.audacy.com/wben https://www.eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Early-History-Howdy-Doody...Televisions-First-Hit-Show-Revised-1.pdf https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/eddie-kean?chapter=2&clip=72946 https://eyesofageneration.com/ultra-rare-howdy-doody-images-the-original-howdy-be-sure-to-click-through-t/ https://howdy-doody.fandom.com/wiki/Flub%E2%80%93a%E2%80%93Dub https://www.irenebrination.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2021/11/frank-paris-marionettes.html https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507741/ Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Norm MacDonald: The Humorist On The Outside #sponsored

Norm MacDonald: The Comedian On The Outside #sponsored 31 Dec 2025 --- 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: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norm-Macdonald https://fee.org/articles/norm-Macdonald-and-the-economics-of-comedy/ https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/canadian-comics-reflect-on-ottawa-yuk-yuk-s-days-with-norm-Macdonald-if-it-started/article_bb4c6d16-9cb0-547c-821f-bc77fbbfe3f4.html https://bigbellycomedy.club/artist/norm-Macdonald/ https://jacobin.com/2021/10/norm-Macdonald-anti-politics-anti-comedy-snl-subversion-stand-up  https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/3661189/who-norm-Macdonald-ex-wife-connie/ https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-remembering-norm-Macdonald-the-greatest-canadian-standup-of-all-time  https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Norm_Macdonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_Update  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/sports/don-ohlmeyer-dead-television-abc-nbc.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/arts/tv-notes-ohlmeyer-vs-Macdonald.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991204105657/http://www.saturday-night-live.com/snl/news/1999/january/norm-oj-jokes.html https://www.pokernews.com/news/2018/06/norm-Macdonald-poker-hand-31262.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/arts/television/norm-Macdonald-dead.html https://deadline.com/2021/09/norm-Macdonald-dead-obituary-comedian-saturday-night-live-weekend-update-anchor-was-61-1234833212/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233702/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/05/29/norm-Macdonald-nothing-special-netflix/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/05/29/norm-Macdonald-nothing-special-netflix/ Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]