David Livingstone: The Missionary Who Became a Legendary Explorer

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  • @Chomperoni23
    @Chomperoni23 3 года назад +18

    Since my girlfriend dumped me on my birthday, I haven't stopped watching these videos and I have been hooked ever since. Your the best friend I'll most likely never meet but I feel more of a connection between us then any of my other friends. Thank you Simon

    • @wfp9378
      @wfp9378 3 года назад +3

      Don’t worry...there are another 3 billion ladies out there.

  • @Calla-sl8gd
    @Calla-sl8gd 3 года назад +15

    As the requester of the video, thank you! I've always found Dr. Livingstone to be an interesting character, especially his forays across Africa.
    New subject: Louis and Mary Leakey and their discoveries at the Olduvai Gorge.
    Thanks again for the Livingstone video!

  • @phodisomphophatshwane9639
    @phodisomphophatshwane9639 3 года назад +33

    As a Mokwena from Botswana who speaks Setswana, the facts said here are true. Thank you Simon for the video.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +2

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @Thehomelessathlete
      @Thehomelessathlete 3 года назад

      Yahyeee no problem

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope 3 года назад +1

      As a dude from california these fracts are whack jack

  • @ethanramos4441
    @ethanramos4441 3 года назад +90

    “If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”
    David Livingstone

    • @DeliveredCarCare
      @DeliveredCarCare 3 года назад +3

      Where did u find this?! That’s a great quote!

    • @ethanramos4441
      @ethanramos4441 3 года назад +1

      @@DeliveredCarCare I look it up mate

    • @primesspct2
      @primesspct2 3 года назад +5

      Thats awesome! He was certainly a courageous and tenacious man! A true hero I think!

  • @peterdiaz3796
    @peterdiaz3796 3 года назад +11

    One of the best ways to be a missionary is through example by living a good life and caring for those around you, as Livingston did. Winning that one chief for God would be like only getting one kill in COD but having several assists.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +35

    1:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    5:10 - Chapter 2 - 1st trip to africa
    8:55 - Chapter 3 - Down the zambezi
    12:40 - Chapter 4 - Return to africa
    16:35 - Chapter 5 - The source of the Nile
    19:15 - Chapter 6 - I left my heart in africa

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +2

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

  • @jchrvat
    @jchrvat 3 года назад +19

    "After a SLIGHT detour to Rio de Janeiro" lol

  • @yellowjackboots2624
    @yellowjackboots2624 3 года назад +39

    I have family and work colleagues who live in Blantyre, Scotland. And i can honestly say there is something wrong with every single one of them.

  • @mv7647
    @mv7647 3 года назад +7

    Simon, you read my mind! I was just learning about Livingstone today and wondering what his life was like. Great job!

  • @melissamarsh2219
    @melissamarsh2219 3 года назад +26

    Livingston: We’re going to need a bigger boat

  • @vonhumboldt1985
    @vonhumboldt1985 3 года назад +3

    Love this channel! Thanks to what you're doing for us!

  • @zach3ry10126
    @zach3ry10126 3 года назад +3

    I am a distant relative of David Livingstone, he is my great great great grandfather, I’ve always been told minor details about his life and hadn’t known much, it wasn’t until I recently that I’ve wanted to learn more about him and my heritage, this was a great video and u shed some light on his life and his goals. You have a great way of explaining things and your accent makes me want to keep listening, it’s soothing compared to the harsh Australian accent I’m used to.
    Great video mate, thank you for making it. Look forward to more

    • @MbiraSafaris
      @MbiraSafaris Год назад

      Come through to Zimbabwe Victoria falls and Zambia by Livingstone island then I will guide you through his route.

  • @xa_xa_68
    @xa_xa_68 3 года назад +111

    Simon is no human. Crafted by the need of educating us, he rise with channels one by one, until all will know the forgotten history\events the world fights to keep in the dark.
    Or he just really likes to play civilization and going for the research win

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +2

      I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
      And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @AtomicDoorknob
      @AtomicDoorknob 3 года назад +1

      research win rocks

    • @naturefix290
      @naturefix290 3 года назад

      I’m a biology major taking graduate classes while I provide for my family working full time, but I watch way more than I should. Simon and SciShow get 100% of my personal time. Yes I’m a nerd, but I can’t imagine it being any other way. Anywho, we need more videos!!!

    • @gr-h5628
      @gr-h5628 3 года назад +1

      Simon won't rest until all other RUclips creators cease to exist and he features on every single RUclips video 😂

    • @danielkaster2648
      @danielkaster2648 3 года назад +1

      This is obviously a team effort but I really enjoy content

  • @ravenevermore7338
    @ravenevermore7338 3 года назад +6

    I read a book about him in middle school and found him fascinating. Great video!

  • @JohnMushitu
    @JohnMushitu 3 года назад +2

    I've just learnt something our syllabus left out, Thank you Simon 🙌🏾

  • @sisaktamas
    @sisaktamas 3 года назад +38

    There’s some fascinatingly scenic surnames in English and “living stone” must be one of the scenic-est of them all! (Yes, “shake spear” also.)

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +6

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад +5

      @@truth5705 As much as you have a right to campaign for a video of this topic, it is unlikely there is any fear behind it not having been done, rathe most of his videos seem to be geared to his American audience.
      Also, pasting your campain spiel to a lot of other people's comments, often several times or more is rather disrespectful as it just makes you look like a fanatic.

    • @sisaktamas
      @sisaktamas 3 года назад

      @gerard dearie thanks for your clarifications.

    • @matthoward7645
      @matthoward7645 3 года назад +1

      @@truth5705 you could just ask him to make em he does get alot of requests not phrase it like he can't bring himself to do these on monstrous people have you watched many of these bro?

    • @sisaktamas
      @sisaktamas 3 года назад

      @gerard dearie about language, I’ve had my doubts but decided to go with English partly as a provocation because I was sure someone would make a point as yours. But do you mean that Livingstone in his daily life would have used Scottish rather than the English of the time?

  • @triggeredcat120
    @triggeredcat120 3 года назад +5

    Simon’s gonna have the entire RUclips site to himself soon! Love the content!

  • @cookingwithchefluc7173
    @cookingwithchefluc7173 3 года назад +27

    In School they teach you that Livingstone was never wrong and all he did was good. Now I actually see that Livingstone was quite stubborn

    • @bif24701
      @bif24701 3 года назад

      In school they hide the truths and flawes all humans have.

    • @cookingwithchefluc7173
      @cookingwithchefluc7173 3 года назад

      @@bif24701 I couldn't agree more with you about this

    • @HighKingoftheElves
      @HighKingoftheElves 3 года назад +1

      Unfortunately school history lessons are generally so boring that nobody learns anything in them

    • @nsofwawalklog
      @nsofwawalklog 3 года назад +3

      true this guy is no hero to Africa.

    • @cookingwithchefluc7173
      @cookingwithchefluc7173 3 года назад +1

      @@nsofwawalklog So much for all the people he baptized !

  • @Oatmeal_Mann
    @Oatmeal_Mann 3 года назад +1

    Yayyy! Thanks for another documentary channel. My RUclips recommendations don't have nearly enough of them for my liking 🙏👌🏻

  • @ladydiamondprisca
    @ladydiamondprisca 3 года назад +10

    One day I'm going to walk into someone's house and say "I discovered your bathtub! It's now called the Atamaokashi no Bathtub and you need a passport to get in it.

  • @dinkthedinorawr
    @dinkthedinorawr 3 года назад +5

    Keep the content coming, Simon! When asked my fave youtube channel I say "look up Simon Whistler. Those."

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 3 года назад +15

    The chief never really divorced his other wives, because his divorced wives later became PREGNANT, no s*** sherlock!!!!! Lol 😆

  • @ryanc.51
    @ryanc.51 3 года назад +28

    I predict big things for Simon, he's an excellent host, displays a sense of humor, and when he swears, it's a big deal, like your well mannered parent has finally had enough.

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 года назад +10

      Business Blaze
      Mega Projects
      Side Projects
      Top Tenz
      Today I Found Out
      Biographics
      Geographics
      Highlight History
      Xplrd
      The Casual Criminalist
      Visual Politik EN
      The Simon Whistler Show
      I may have missed one.
      Visual Politk EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had updated content for a while.
      Big enough? 😆

    • @KManwarren
      @KManwarren 3 года назад +2

      That's exactly how I feel when Simon swears. "That is ENOUGH!" Well done.

    • @nickstav08
      @nickstav08 3 года назад

      Watch business blaze, its the well mannered parent after a few drinks XD

  • @MrStuart1891
    @MrStuart1891 3 года назад +2

    Great video Simon as a Scot Dr Livingstone is a personal hero of mine

  • @scottpierce3483
    @scottpierce3483 2 года назад

    Nice to see a video about him. I used to live on the same street as the David Livingstone Centre. Nice place for a visit and walk.

  • @KRUGE67
    @KRUGE67 3 года назад +1

    What a life, what an adventure..

  • @michaelbatts7149
    @michaelbatts7149 3 года назад +1

    Biographics-I have a whole playlist that just keeps growing and growing.

  • @danielcondrey3549
    @danielcondrey3549 3 года назад +30

    Another Possible Bio: Jack Kirby. His Influence On Comics, And Pop Culture In General, Should Warrant A Few Minutes Of Your Time.

    • @kali3665
      @kali3665 3 года назад +3

      Not to mention Kirby's own war experiences. He practically WAS Captain America in real life.

    • @danielcondrey3549
      @danielcondrey3549 3 года назад +1

      @@kali3665 Truly, The King

    • @kali3665
      @kali3665 3 года назад +1

      @@danielcondrey3549 Indeed.....

    • @SilenTHerO78614
      @SilenTHerO78614 3 года назад +2

      Eh better than Stan "I claimed most of Steve Ditko's work as my own" Lee

    • @ScienceGet
      @ScienceGet 3 года назад

      @@SilenTHerO78614 Jack Kirby was the king. I'm sad that the best rendition of his New Gods material is in Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League. It deserves a proper big-screen treatment.

  • @khameronsmith108
    @khameronsmith108 3 года назад +2

    Simon has done more for our education than anyone in history 👏👏👏👏

  • @amandascharfenberg5841
    @amandascharfenberg5841 3 года назад +2

    A Biographic video on Simon and Danny are overdue!!!

  • @aaronsturrup6140
    @aaronsturrup6140 3 года назад

    It's not always about succeeding sometimes, but the journey and the pursuit of success!

  • @jasonpapworth4428
    @jasonpapworth4428 3 года назад

    Love your videos! Always have them on whilst I eat lunch at work.
    Any change of doing Lord Badan-Powell?

  • @Intercaust
    @Intercaust 3 года назад +2

    Simon is the hardest working man on RUclips.

  • @SkunkApe407
    @SkunkApe407 3 года назад +75

    So Dr. Livingstone's heart was buried in Africa, while the rest of his remains were returned to Scotland? How fitting of a burial. I'm sure the Doctor approves.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +4

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 3 года назад +18

      @@truth5705 or maybe nobody has requested them yet? Put the tinfoil and anti-5g creams away, not everything is some conspiracy ya nutter.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +3

      @@SkunkApe407 But then the question becomes why has no one requested them? Then you say "no one has heard of them", then the question becomes; Why has no one heard of them, when they've killed and tortured more than Himmler or Mengle, and we've all heard of them.
      Did you know people of their ethnic background made over 80% of the first Bolshevik government?
      The Bolsheviks set up the Cheka police, read up about their atrocities.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 3 года назад +1

      @D. Storey okay, he was still returned to Great Britain. The sentiment still stands...

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 3 года назад +1

      @@truth5705 furthermore I highly doubt that Larry Page is a Bolshevik, and Sergey Brin's last name is of Hebrew origin, so...

  • @wittebolletony
    @wittebolletony 3 года назад +48

    Do a video about that guy who has the most youtube channels. I believe he's named Simon something...

    • @Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr.
      @Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. 3 года назад +7

      @The White Sphere....Simon Whistler I presume.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +4

      I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
      And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @redlightning2322
      @redlightning2322 3 года назад +3

      ALLEGEDLY

    • @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish.
      @1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. 3 года назад +2

      Simon Says.

    • @TheSiameseDreamer
      @TheSiameseDreamer 3 года назад +2

      You mean that coke head guy?

  • @segobaetso
    @segobaetso 3 года назад +3

    Setswana speaker here!

  • @justamutt5294
    @justamutt5294 3 года назад +7

    9:16 "once the rainy season had started, the expedition could no longer travel by canoe and had to ride oxen" -- shows a pic of livingstone riding on the shoulders of a native. ouch. might want to spend a lil more time on editing

  • @WeeStevieB
    @WeeStevieB 3 года назад +2

    I live in Livingstone's hometown. As a kid I didn't think much of him despite attending the school named after him as well as the church and the frequent visits to the visitor centre that occupies the grounds next to the house where he grew up. But over the years, I have become quite proud of the fact that someone from this town, a blip on a map, has made quite an impact and is still being remembered today 🙂

  • @luizmiguel9509
    @luizmiguel9509 3 года назад +2

    I would love a Biographics vídeo about Rudyard Kipling

  • @deltanovember1672
    @deltanovember1672 3 года назад +14

    You forgot the part where he was savaged by a lion.

    • @vespa9566
      @vespa9566 2 года назад +1

      To save the villagers as well.
      Also the YT agenda probably wouldn’t allow him speak of the massacre of 400 Africans at the market.

  • @gauthamdinesan2184
    @gauthamdinesan2184 3 года назад +71

    Simon! Do you ever sleep? 🤷🤷

    • @danielreher1987
      @danielreher1987 3 года назад +5

      I've been wondering that for awhile now.

    • @jamesjosep4393
      @jamesjosep4393 3 года назад +7

      *sniff* Its just coffee allegedly

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +2

      I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
      And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @bunnygirl2448
      @bunnygirl2448 3 года назад +1

      That’s why he is “cocaine boy”

    • @lord7134
      @lord7134 3 года назад +1

      Only reason why he cuts his video w other images is so he can take another sniff sniff or scratching le head

  • @malcolm6107
    @malcolm6107 3 года назад +3

    Nice vid , can you also do Cecil John Rhodes at some point please Simon.

  • @lewisboyd02
    @lewisboyd02 3 года назад +1

    Great to see our towns most famous person in this channel (I'm from Blantyre)

  • @ME262MKI
    @ME262MKI 3 года назад +2

    For a living stone, he did great!

  • @tarataratara4901
    @tarataratara4901 3 года назад

    FFS, Simon. They aren’t running out, man. You don’t ‘gotta catch em all’ .... 😆🤓 I mean, go off. Keep making the rest of us look lazy but also super happy to get to watch your content. You’re simply the best

  • @nicholaspalmer892
    @nicholaspalmer892 3 года назад +1

    The casual criminalist is technically your newest Simon

  • @primesspct2
    @primesspct2 3 года назад +1

    If he won one man for the Lord, and that man won ten ,and those men won 10; that is a whole lot of people! I think God is smiling now thinking about his son Livingston , giving his all, believing God would get him through! I admire his courage and tenacity!

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph5906 3 года назад

    I found this video very educational and enlightening! And I thought that I knew everything about David Livingston!

  • @thebindydiaries9717
    @thebindydiaries9717 6 месяцев назад

    My mother recently told me I'm directly descended from his brother John. So now I'm a DL fan, been to Westminster Abbey to see his slab, pride of place in the middle of the nave. Makes me feel a bit of a let down to the family, although I did come top in the world at Stage 4 in the ICC Fantasy Cricket competition....top.....in the world. High 5, Dave in the nave.

  • @_Krazy.Kayla_
    @_Krazy.Kayla_ 3 года назад +6

    How many channels do you want?
    Simon: yes

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +1

      I'd really like to see a Biographics video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic backgrounds and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson or Salomon Morel or Józef Różański or Anatol Fejgin or Stefan Michnik.
      And Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's for the soviets.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

  • @jameskipp1657
    @jameskipp1657 3 года назад +3

    Whatever failings he may have had, one thing you have to say is he was a brave man.

  • @buttercxpdraws8101
    @buttercxpdraws8101 3 года назад +6

    Do Juana the Mad! Do Carlos the Bewitched!

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +1

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @pretzelhunt
      @pretzelhunt 3 года назад

      @@truth5705 Whom are what?

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +1

      @@pretzelhunt try rephrasing the question or being less stupid

  • @lucaswegener2010
    @lucaswegener2010 3 года назад +1

    Please do Burke and Wills the Irish and English explorers and their treck through the east coast of Australia in the 1800’s

  • @michaelkosiorowski2723
    @michaelkosiorowski2723 3 года назад

    You’re a legend. I would like to see biographics on Tadeusz Kościuszko, but you’re the legend.

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn 3 года назад +17

    Day 1 of asking for a Biographics video on General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

    • @mr.apocalypse5143
      @mr.apocalypse5143 3 года назад +1

      and General Robert E Lee and George Armstrong Custer.

    • @samtepal3892
      @samtepal3892 3 года назад

      And General Dyer, whose crimes need to be known widely.

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn 3 года назад

      @@mr.apocalypse5143 Robert E. Lee would also be pretty neat! When I was in school, the history classes I had never taught about the Civil War; so all of the information I have on people like Lee, Jackson, etc. is from books and videos. I feel like Simon could present a video on Lee or Jackson in an unbiased and informative way.

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn 3 года назад

      @@samtepal3892 I have no idea who that is...I guess a video on him would teach me something.

    • @SweetTango007
      @SweetTango007 3 года назад +1

      They have most already been done. Search the channel’s older videos and playlist. The Robert E. Lee on singly handily changed my harsh opinions on the confederates.

  • @cuttinaboot
    @cuttinaboot 3 года назад +2

    I’ve been on a school trip to the cotton mill in Blantyre!

    • @brycehawkins6342
      @brycehawkins6342 3 года назад +2

      And I live about 10 minutes from there ahahhaa

  • @coitze8704
    @coitze8704 3 года назад

    You have to make a video on Stanley, that guy had such a diverse life, it would be epic

  • @AMERICANNERD76
    @AMERICANNERD76 3 года назад +1

    Y'all should do a Biographics video on Ross Perot!!!

  • @19Dev98
    @19Dev98 3 года назад

    Spent many a day studying in Livingstone Tower at Strathclyde. Undisputed best building on the campus

  • @jaredmn8580
    @jaredmn8580 3 года назад +2

    I would love to see a Biographics on John Brown

  • @JONAYB13o
    @JONAYB13o 3 года назад

    I went to the local school: David Livingstone Memorial Primary School! :) Didn’t think our little town would get a shoutout!

  • @terryarmbruster7986
    @terryarmbruster7986 3 года назад +3

    Nice to see Simon take the missionary position. 👍in such a Victorian way too. Hear hear jolly good! 👍😆

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 3 года назад

    Thank you

  • @markzanetti6228
    @markzanetti6228 2 года назад

    i can't find your new channel: explore? explored? xplrd? xplored? where's the link down below?

  • @bromandosubzero999
    @bromandosubzero999 3 года назад

    Good lord man how many channels plus a podcast are you at now

  • @nahnopenopenope3406
    @nahnopenopenope3406 3 года назад

    Simon, my 11 year old niece and and I love your channels (biographics and geographics are our main stomping ground) And we have a special request: could you do a video on the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko? It would mean so much. Also, from the mouth of babes “he’s the only dude who looks cool with a beard and no hair.”

  • @ThePuschkin1986
    @ThePuschkin1986 3 года назад

    now you have to do a bio on Henry Morten Stanley of course! I would also like to see Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.

  • @juanch6936
    @juanch6936 3 года назад +13

    I go on hikes in Arizona. Whenever I find a solitary older man, in an obscure place, hiking all alone, I ask him “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
    They never get it.

    • @lukemew7437
      @lukemew7437 3 года назад +1

      Well I might go to Arizona just to meet you for that

  • @NobletheSavage
    @NobletheSavage 3 года назад

    I love the sentence in the description saying that Simon is going to give us a " crazy " amount of content in 2021 . 2019 was crazy , 2020's content was waaaayyyy beyond crazy . I think Simon might have to go back to a thesaurus to find a more apt term if it's anything like 2020 .

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 3 года назад +1

    Good video 👍

  • @thomasseery7570
    @thomasseery7570 3 года назад

    Went to see his childhood house with my school in Blantyre. We were told he was the ultimate exploring hero.

  • @MC-gj8fg
    @MC-gj8fg 3 года назад

    14 hours a day is my
    work schedule most days...without the two 40 minute breaks.

  • @SebastienWouters
    @SebastienWouters Год назад

    Awesome channel, as other key figures of the colonisation, could you speak about the rivalry between Stanley and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, both having had cities called after them, but only one retaining this honor in Brazzaville

  • @archit1939
    @archit1939 3 года назад

    plz do try to move towards more figures from subcontinent also.......i humbly bet the fascinating and incredible list of extraordinary list of people from the indian subcontinent would vastly outnumber any number of historical figures of the last few centuries from the western civilization , simply due to our thousands of years of recorded history and a VERY eventful recent past.

  • @bulkierwriter2772
    @bulkierwriter2772 3 года назад +1

    Would you be willing to do one on Murad II or Mehmed II? Preferably both🙂

  • @bobfg3130
    @bobfg3130 3 года назад

    A video on Sextus Pompey might be great. Maybe even a video on his father. They almost started another Roman civil war by using ships and controlling Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.

  • @Eos_Galvus
    @Eos_Galvus 3 года назад

    I alweays wondered who Dr. Livingstone was! I remember an Apple II game based on finding the man, it was Oregon Trail style and AWESOME.

  • @kelerews
    @kelerews 3 года назад +17

    can I suggest "Diego Armando Maradona"?
    he passed away recently and his life was.... interesting

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +3

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @ME262MKI
      @ME262MKI 3 года назад

      The football player or the drug addict?

  • @wilmambae8403
    @wilmambae8403 3 года назад +9

    As a Kenyan, I always feel some typa way about white explorers 'discovering' places that had been known to local communities for centuries.. Especially as someone who's primary school education involved memorizing the names of all these men😆 (that's colonisation for you smh).Regardless, it gives me some joy to know that one of those faceless white men had some redeeming qualities.Also, good job Simon on the pronounciation you really tried😁

    • @timothydee1507
      @timothydee1507 3 года назад +3

      Even if the locals knew of a location it would not have been discovered without proper geographical surveys including map making which would place it on the globe for all the known world to be aware of. Doing that sort of thing at this time in those remotes part of the world was extremely dangerous and difficult. That’s why these “faceless white men” as you put it became famous.
      They were the astronauts of their time. Some of them were good people most of them were not of course they lived 200 years ago with very different standards.

    • @truth5705
      @truth5705 3 года назад +1

      I'd like to see a video about Genrikh Yagoda or Lazar Kaganovich
      I wonder why Simon hasn't, maybe he's afraid to draw attention to their ethnic background and the horrible crimes they commited.
      Some scholars estimate Yagoda could have killed as much as 20 million people.
      Lazar Kaganovich was the main architect of the Holodomor, were they purposefully starved 4 million Ukrainians to death.
      Then there's also Idel Jakobson, Salomon Morel, Józef Różański, Anatol Fejgin, Stefan Michnik and Ana Pauker(aka Stalin in a Skirt).
      And also Isia Davidovich Berg, who invented the gas van in the 1920's.
      Why hasn't Simon done videos about these men?
      I suppose "don't bite the hand that feeds", is what Simon is thinking.
      The people who own youtube are of the same ethnic background and they might take offense.

    • @second2none914
      @second2none914 3 года назад +3

      @@timothydee1507 what you’re saying is the equivalent of saying that America discovered the moon because they were the first to survey it even though it had been known to people for thousands of years before that.
      Furthermore many of the places had been surveyed and known by the rest of the word before the faceless colonisers ever arrived to murder the natives and rename their icons.
      Overall without justifying colonialism there is no reason for African places to be named after faceless white colonisers.

  • @Matt-uj6jm
    @Matt-uj6jm Год назад

    Fortunately I live a stones throw away from the place he worked as a boy in Blantyre. Also a cottage he lived in at the Peacock cross Burnbank. Point to note the great Ian Hunter Motte the hopple fame lived next door in the 1950s and 60s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

  • @joshualafferty6398
    @joshualafferty6398 3 года назад +1

    Simon, you're the best. I subscribe to all your channels.

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 года назад +1

      All 11? U r a legend. Allegedly

    • @joshualafferty6398
      @joshualafferty6398 3 года назад +1

      @@sandybarnes887 i guess you are right. Lol
      I'm a subscriber to all the ones I know about.
      Is that better? Lol

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 года назад +1

      @@joshualafferty6398 Business Blaze
      Mega Projects
      Side Projects
      Top Tenz
      Today I Found Out
      Biographics
      Geographics
      Highlight History
      Xplrd
      Visual Politik EN
      The Simon Whistler Show
      I may have missed one. Visual Politik EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had new content for a while. I haven't included his podcast.

    • @joshualafferty6398
      @joshualafferty6398 3 года назад +1

      @@sandybarnes887 thank you. I'll have to really support them & subscribe to the other ones.

    • @joshualafferty6398
      @joshualafferty6398 3 года назад

      @@sandybarnes887 i think I'm subscribed to them all now. Thank you.

  • @jesuschrist9513
    @jesuschrist9513 3 года назад

    Maybe next you could do Jefferson or Lincoln? Complete Rushmore!

  • @dp6447
    @dp6447 3 года назад

    Another day, another subscription to one of your channels Simon! Feel like I know you personally at this point 🤣

  • @burants89
    @burants89 3 года назад

    I live a half mile from where he was raised in Hamilton, Scotland

  • @TheSaltRose
    @TheSaltRose 3 года назад

    14hr days and TWO 40 min breaks? That’s better than most fast food restaurants in the US offer nowadays.

  • @morganhofmann9016
    @morganhofmann9016 3 года назад

    Wooo!!! Thanks!

  • @killerrogue
    @killerrogue 3 года назад

    Hello, Simon. You should make a video on Subhash Chandra Bose, the first PM of Free India. And for your note, Bose didn't die in 1945. He was spotted after a lot of times and politicians had even indicated about him. The 100 files were declassified in 2015 by BJP. And don't forget Gungnaami Baba.

  • @COLUMBIA518
    @COLUMBIA518 3 года назад

    Early Gang! Looking forward to this video. Thanks for the steady flow of great content!

  • @soaringbuddha7249
    @soaringbuddha7249 3 года назад

    You should do a video on the life of Han Xin of the early Han period, the dude was a monster and way ahead of his time.

  • @Vodka_c-zar
    @Vodka_c-zar 3 года назад +1

    Can you do a video on Somalia.
    A country that History is hardly ever talked about.

  • @winterborn82
    @winterborn82 3 года назад

    Haven't watched yet, but I cant help it, Dr. Livingston, I presume?

  • @danielkaster2648
    @danielkaster2648 3 года назад

    I enjoyed this

  • @casper6405
    @casper6405 3 года назад

    I really hope you do one day some dutch historical characters like some from the 80 years war
    Really would love to see some

  • @blairfleming5861
    @blairfleming5861 3 года назад

    Simon when are you opening a channel to do videos about all your other channels

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 3 года назад

    Simon! When will you do a video on Admiral Thomas Cochrane? He's a hero of the Napoleonic wars, and helped many Latin American countries win their independence. "Kings and Generals" recently did a video on him on their own channel.

  • @withintheshyness
    @withintheshyness 3 года назад

    Episode request: Jane Addams! Not the First Lady btw but the social worker. Also would like to see Ida B Wells as well

  • @brandonk8948
    @brandonk8948 3 года назад +2

    6:25 Um, one soul for Christ is huge. To quote a former evangelist, "There are five Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the fifth is the Christian." Sometimes it is a man's actions that speak louder than any number of converts. Livingston was living what Jordan Peterson would depict as "seeing your purpose in life and pursuing it with all vigor, embracing the chaos." That is what makes the modern Christian a pathetic testimony of what these previous century warriors titans in comparison of the mass majority of the modern church.

  • @kevinbergonia5019
    @kevinbergonia5019 3 года назад +1

    Please do a video on Abraham Lincoln or Captain Kidd

  • @michaelsimpson4901
    @michaelsimpson4901 3 года назад

    Don't know if would be good on this Channel but I would love to see the story of the RNLI

  • @bobfg3130
    @bobfg3130 3 года назад

    Livingston did a bit of exploration.