American Reacts The Secrets of Cambridge’s Streets | And One of the Best Pranks in History!
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
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If that video was filmed last Summer, the grass looks like that because we had a drought with no rain for months and temperatures up to 40 degrees Celsius. There was a hose pipe ban imposed by the water companies and you weren’t even allowed to water your garden, let alone big expanses of grass in public spaces.
Was allowed to water, just not with hose pipe, use watering can as can control water use better
Newton's home, Woolsthorpe Manor, is about 10 mins drive from where I live - the original apple tree is still there. The house and grounds are open to the public. The apple tree at Cambridge was grown from a cutting from the original.
Yes my home town, born here and love the place. In every part I could add so much; one bit - at one time Henry V111 statue also had the orb replaced with a toilet ball cock! Sadly some areas were taken down and replaced with new buildings which took away some of the character in the centre but, all in all, this was a great video showing how beautiful Cambridge is. Thanks for showing it 😊
Looks like this was filmed during last year's drought. One of our worst ever and the hottest it's ever been.
Drought? Hot yes but I live ten minutes away and if there was a drought we didn't notice!
This is what I like about your reactions. I quite often learn something new in your videos. And I'm English 😊
Connor.... anything that starts with 'neo' = ancient Greek for "new" / in Latin it is 'novus' or 'nova' where you get the world novelty and innovation etc. So 'neo-classical' means late or very recent part of the classical period. In medicine you have 'neo-natal' -= 'new born'
I disagree that it means any part of the classical period (referring to the Greek and Roman civilizations). Like "neo-gothic" (or "gothic revival") in relation to medieval (gothic) architecture, it refers to a completely new and separate period or movement of its own where styles originally developed in the classical period two thousand or more years ago and abandoned for many centuries, have been deliberately revived. These would include the ionic, doric and corinthian orders of Greek architecture in the sixteenth century. This revived architectural style is also sometimes called "Palladian" after the Italian architect Andrea Palladio, one of the earliest and the most famous exponent of neo-classicism in architecture.
@@MrBulky992 You have kindly submitted here a far more learned and academic explanation than I managed to do..... my studies were more than 50 years ago, and as Hamlet said..."old men forget" Thank you for this very clear explanation.
I suspect the reason for the 'brown' lawns is because the UK had the worst drought for decades last summer. The drone shots look like they were filmed in summer you see, even if the main show was clearly filmed later in winter. It's usually all very green, don't worry.
All I can think of now is the Monty Python sketch about the letter 'C'. The man cannot say the letter 'C' so calls it King's Bollege Bambridge. When asked why he does not use 'K' instead, he replies, "what a silly bunt".
In Durham, some students one-upped the car prank in the 90s. They suspended the *vice-chancellor’s* car from Kingsgate Bridge. Now, it’s worth bearing in mind that Kingsgate Bridge is 50ft above the river. The students responsible got away with it on condition they got the car down again.
I once met one of the perpetrators. He’s now a very well-known academic in his field.
You really need to read the book "three men in a boat". Very funny - and not too long. 😉😄
Crick & Watson didn't "discover how DNA carries genetic information." They discovered that the structure of the DNA molecule is a double helix.
A cloister (at an abbey or nunnery) is a grass square surrounded by a covered colonnade for contemplative walking.
There's a great 30 min video on a year in the life of the choristers of the world famous King's College Chapel in Cambridge. I think you'd find it of intrest as something very different from previous UK-themed reactions you have done. It's called A Year at Kings and was made in 2018. The choir was established over 580 yrs ago.
She didn't mention the pilots bar ceiling in The Eagle pub...or the window there that is always kept open for 300 years
Neo-classical means the old classical styles brought to life again in a later period in time.
Ahh my home town ❤ its weird seeing it like this. Makes it look way more interesting than it ever was growing up there 😄
I'm sure she said at 14:10 that The Eagle was frequented by scientists from 'the nearby Cavendish lavatory'. I'm hopeful she meant laboratory :)
The University I lectured at in China got a request for someone to go & help present a Summer Course & help with Academic English to assorted students from all over Europe. In Cambridge. The actual course was horrific & I refused to present fiction as fact (e.g. Robin Hood being a verified historical figure?) so I didn't make it past a few weeks. But I didn't really give a damn because Cambridge itself was an experience that will stay in my mind forever.
The fact that this Uni was founded in 1209 is in itself mind-blowing...I mean think about it for a moment: for around 800 years Oxbridge (as we refer to Cambridge & Oxford) has been producing Prime Ministers, scientists, poets, playwrights, explorers, revolutionaries...& you actually walk/cycle/stagger upon the same cobbled spaces as they did: and in some colleges dine in the same dining room as Darwin, Newton, Alan Turing, Isaac Newton. There are *blue plaques all over the town and a bridge that was built with no nails, by Newton. There's a Wednesday market that's been taking place since Cambridge was first established; and there's riverside pubs where ancient willow trees shade wooden verandas in the heat of the afternoon & swans swim lazily along.
Perhaps that's why, after all that time, Cambridge has a kind of "feel" to it. I sometimes, on summer evenings, used to go and just stare at Darwin's house imagining him coming & going and gazing out the windows.
A colleague & I were given a WWII hospital building which was moulded around the original chapel, to stay in. It overlooked a stretch of land & water that had been guaranteed, by an ancient monarch, to remain common-ground to the cows which, to this day, roam up & down.
It's like different ages are operating at the same time.
Probably sounds daft🤪 but still, as I said, that idyllic time stays in my mind.
and at night it's totally chavtastic :)
@Nicky L Well, first off: there's never been an outlaw who stole from the rich to give to the poor...lovely idea though.
And in an era where "correct spelling" didn't exist it's not too difficult to find quite a lot of candidates for this mythical fellow: robyn/robine/robin/rob/robert and hood/hoode/hud/ etc. etc.
And second: it took centuries for the myth of Robin Hood to evolve into the story of him & his 'Merry' Men. that we know today. Which is a sort of a mixture of local characters in different parts of the country, as well as ballads, myth and story telling.
And yes indeed - over that course of time there have been many people who have been nominated by various people as being the "real" Robin Hood. There is, however, no proof at all of a "real" Robin.
Thus, as an educator, I refused to pass on information that is not verifiable as the truth. (Which, as you can imagine, did not make me the most popular kid on the block!)
I enjoyed watchin that one with you! she was a good presenter!
Indeed. I'd much rather watch her than Dan Snow any day.😉
Loved your vid I have lived in Cambridge my whole life ... if you ever want a college tour let me know ... peace and love from Cambridge UK
There was a centuries-long tradition of students climbing on the various buildings ,despite attempts by the authorities to prevent this, which is doubtless why it was thought a good idea to hoist up a car.
I found a secondhand book detailing the history of this and the various exploits, published in the 1930s.
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Thank you so much Ash!
Cambridge is a stunning city with a lot of of history. I love living here!
I lived in Cambridge for 8 years in the 1960's. I did not take to it at all. I cannot put my finger on it, except perhaps the flat landscape which I do not like. I come from the Cotswold area which is very beautiful and this is probably why I do not like flat countryside.
@@valeriedavidson2785 - there are plenty of hills in Cambridgeshire.
@@zeeox Don't be silly. It is the flattest county in England and some of it below sea level.
@@zeeox I am pleased to hear it. I had young children at the time and there was nowhere to take them. It was a very dead city. It was only there for the colleges really.
@@valeriedavidson2785 - one half of it is flat. The other half is not. Try cycling up Barrington Hill in a headwind and then tell me the whole county is flat.
A few years ago a friend took me to Cambridge and we walked around looking at the various colleges, the architecture is quite stunning . Love the student pranks in this video , definitely my kind of humour , and accepted in the spirit in which it was given .🇬🇧
“Neoclassical” is not an oxymoron. It refers to an architectural style that imitated the classical architecture of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
The reason that Henry VIII is holding a chair-leg is because of another student prank!
Newton himself often related the story of the apple.
When you said ' i want water' i thought is he taking the PISS. No why would Connor, but pal we are getting drenched this summer.
I have just watched cars in a car park getting moved and smashed due to huge waves, in Devon, fun Brittish summer times.
The grass is brown because this must have been recorded during one of our hot spells which we get from time to time.
R,r. She has a strong non rhotic pronunciation of the letter r. While this is pretty general in England the south of England in many cases has a noticeable non rhotic sound. The r can sound like w.
American English is fully rhotic, the r is very clearly heard and often extended.
I live here. It's great.
Neo-classical ("new classical") because the styles was inspired by the architecture of Classical Rome and Greece. It is the same style as the White House and many other American buildings - all neo-classical.
They are currently putting solar panels on top of kings chapel
neoclassical; a revival of classical styles
I’m sure there is a lot of rivalry between Cambridge and Oxford, like there is between Yale and Harvard in the US. But what I would like to see is more technology transfer from universities in the U.K. to industry, so we can scale up those innovations and manufacture them here, instead of selling those ideas to China. And then importing them as products from China back to the U.K.
@Nicky L Not just Biotech businesses but world leading research into building Artificial Intelligence systems and products for the future, but how much British innovation ends up in foreign ownership, once it’s developed into a tech start up? That’s my issue. Tech start up ARM, who manufactures most of the worlds chips in smart phones was acquired by a foreign business.
You must NOT get run over in London ! mind you, in London in the summer we always see Americans not looking in the right direction when they cross.... most Brits driving in London are constantly on the lookout for this danger. I now regard you as 'one of us', i.e. an honorary Brit.
What a beautiful place Cambridge is?
But not the countryside unfortunately.
@@valeriedavidson2785 Bit of a sweeping statement?
@@johnp8131 Flattest county in England and some of it below sea level. I lived there for 7 years.
Students eh. Don't you just love 'em. Answer: No.
Guess what I wanna do now, watch youx
Personally I cannot stand Dan Snow.
You need to rid yourself of this fascination with British grass !! It's not healthy !
Just look BOTH ways when crossing the road !
Why would you make up something like that about Newton !? Very cynical of you !
In Latin NEO means NEW. So "new classical" style.
That was the single most cringe intros you've ever done.....