In this video, we're looking at a rather interesting time capsule placed in the ground during a World's Fair, as well as an interesting Bonus Fact about being buried alive. :-)
"Look to the future with hope and optimism...." in 1938. In all of the 20th century you could not pick a worse year to make that statement. Just months before the start of WW2. How ironic.
And yet we, as inhabitants of this Earth, prevail. As ironic as it may seem to speak of hope in a future, and yes there would be few 20th century moments that rival this particular time as moments of desperation. But I believe adaptability and basic stubbornness are traits that will prove to be unique to modern humans compared to other hominid life of past millennia. And any species stubborn enough to suck the marrow from bones just to survive is just too stubborn to give in to despair. Some will always survive.
I've just found out about Highlight History and joined of course. I already enjoy 3 other of Simon's channels. I love them all. As long as Simon puts out his websites. I'll continue to watch.
Could you go through the Nuremberg trials at some point, it's been mentioned in some of the biographic videos but something about the trials itself would be interesting.
Bonus fact: (REALLY) Uncommon Irish Folklore (I had to dig deep to find this one decades ago, but still can't find a ref link for it anywhere on the internet today. That being said, this is what I heard:) Drinking oneself into a comatose state was not uncommon in 'old' Ireland, nor was being buried alive as a result. It became so commonplace that Irish mourners wound up creating the 'wake' as a result where people would spend days drowning their sorrows while literally waiting for people to 'wake from the dead.' Again, obscure historical urban legend I read about decades ago, I wish I could find something online to reference it, but I'm afraid recounting this tale 'orally' is the best I can do atm. May the source be with you ~
I have read the same but I believe the reason they were "passing out" was because a lot of cups or mugs at the time were made of lead causing lead poisoning and they would put the person on the kitchen table to wait for them to "wake" if they didnt do so in a few days they were buried
@@mikepierson7447Yaknow, thinking about it, alcohol is highly acidic and most likely wound up leeching more of the lead into the mead being drunk because it's PH level has a much higher acidity than water. This wound up dissolving much MUCH more of the lead INTO the liquid in the cup than water itself and no doubt contributed to the problem. tl;dr = Alcohol & accelerated lead poisoning would put just about anyone into a coma...
@@Rekuzan Alcohol is very corrosive. It even etches glass. Mix that with a blend of moldy rye, in which was common for distilling spirits because it couldn't be consumed and you had a lysergic acid (LSD) blend of booze. Gassed never had a better meaning.
Simón, signed up to.show support. I would have thought you would include that this is where "saved by the Bell" came from. Good luck with the new channel.
There's a joke that if you want to know if a Kikuyu is really dead, you throw a shilling on their grave if the ground shakes they are still alive and if the ground stays still then they are really dead.
You could still consider being buried alive a risk as long as your either somewhere without good medical standards or just get incompetent medical personnel to declare you dead. I.e be in either a remote area or an area without medical personnel trained to modern standards.
Exactly there was a handicapped young women in the US that was just nearly embalmed alive only a few years ago because her family was told she died of a seizure even though that hadn't been the case.
The people behind the time caosule failed to consider that at some point in the 5000 years that people may have come up with better ways of preserving things than sealing them away in a box. limiting the opening to a specific date so far in the future deprives people in the meanwhile from having access to that small part of history and sharing it with everyone afterwards
You'll have to forgive me in advance, but I just GOTTAH ask; what is UP w/ that 'vampire skull' on the bookshelf. Seriously, the fangs on that thing are longer than those of Ardipithecus Ramidus. In Muggle speak, those are just a couple of hundred dollar college words that mean 'missing link of human evolution'! ......I'm sorry, Simon, you were saying???
Try our BrainFood Show podcast. An hour-ish per episode of me and Simon drolling on non-stop. ;-) We're told many-a-listener uses it to fall asleep at night... Not sure if that's a compliment or not... ;-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut I always forget about the podcast. I think it's probably a complimentary statement! I often just put one of Simons shows on autoplay and let it go until I drift off. The content is engaging and Simon's voice is calming! I'll check out the back catalogue of TIFO Podcasts tonight and let you know if it worked!! Live your channels guys!!
Holy shit, imagine having a funeral and watching your wife's body being buried, having the get together with friends and family afterwards and all that. Then later you're sitting there wondering if you could sleep and debating whether to go to bed or just sit there mourning and remembering your recently deceased loved one, when suddenly there's somebody banging at the door. You go and open the door to see who it is and what they want at such a late hour only to find yourself standing face to face looking at your wife that you literally just buried that day? Well I guess one day you'd both look back at laugh at 'that time when you thought you was face to face with my ghost at the door on the night of my funeral ', hahahhlololll
I feel like this would make a good post apocalyptic buddy comedy where Jack Black and Michael Cera encounter a post-doomsday doomsday cult that believes opening the capsule would rapture then from the misery of their world... but instead it turns into a “Drink more Ovaltine” moment. Anybody? 😁
People worked in cemeteries all hours of the day and night to watch for these bells to rings, hence, the term graveyard shift
Another 4930 years to go... I think there will be no one around to open it by then.
"Look to the future with hope and optimism...." in 1938. In all of the 20th century you could not pick a worse year to make that statement. Just months before the start of WW2. How ironic.
And yet we, as inhabitants of this Earth, prevail. As ironic as it may seem to speak of hope in a future, and yes there would be few 20th century moments that rival this particular time as moments of desperation. But I believe adaptability and basic stubbornness are traits that will prove to be unique to modern humans compared to other hominid life of past millennia. And any species stubborn enough to suck the marrow from bones just to survive is just too stubborn to give in to despair. Some will always survive.
I've just found out about Highlight History and joined of course. I already enjoy 3 other of Simon's channels. I love them all. As long as Simon puts out his websites. I'll continue to watch.
that armchair is crazily-cliché-classy 😎👌
and another rather neat video from Mister Whistler & crew, as usual 😁
Could you go through the Nuremberg trials at some point, it's been mentioned in some of the biographic videos but something about the trials itself would be interesting.
“Dead ringer”
Awesome, a Highlight History video for my B-day. Thanks Simon (and co.)
Simon always brings up being buried alive...
Bonus fact: (REALLY) Uncommon Irish Folklore (I had to dig deep to find this one decades ago, but still can't find a ref link for it anywhere on the internet today. That being said, this is what I heard:) Drinking oneself into a comatose state was not uncommon in 'old' Ireland, nor was being buried alive as a result. It became so commonplace that Irish mourners wound up creating the 'wake' as a result where people would spend days drowning their sorrows while literally waiting for people to 'wake from the dead.'
Again, obscure historical urban legend I read about decades ago, I wish I could find something online to reference it, but I'm afraid recounting this tale 'orally' is the best I can do atm.
May the source be with you ~
I have read the same but I believe the reason they were "passing out" was because a lot of cups or mugs at the time were made of lead causing lead poisoning and they would put the person on the kitchen table to wait for them to "wake" if they didnt do so in a few days they were buried
@@mikepierson7447Yaknow, thinking about it, alcohol is highly acidic and most likely wound up leeching more of the lead into the mead being drunk because it's PH level has a much higher acidity than water. This wound up dissolving much MUCH more of the lead INTO the liquid in the cup than water itself and no doubt contributed to the problem.
tl;dr = Alcohol & accelerated lead poisoning would put just about anyone into a coma...
@@Rekuzan Alcohol is very corrosive. It even etches glass. Mix that with a blend of moldy rye, in which was common for distilling spirits because it couldn't be consumed and you had a lysergic acid (LSD) blend of booze. Gassed never had a better meaning.
@@richardpotter6313 HO-Ly *beep*, no WONDER they'd wait days for people to 'wake from the dead'. They were just sleeping off a REALLY bad acid trip!!!
@@Rekuzan It's what caused our Salem witch trials. A hard , wet winter with everyone tripping. LOOK, that one don't look right !
Simón, signed up to.show support. I would have thought you would include that this is where "saved by the Bell" came from. Good luck with the new channel.
Shouldn't the time capsule have been the bonus fact? The safety coffin bit was longer than the "main" one.
So good. Thank you
There's a joke that if you want to know if a Kikuyu is really dead, you throw a shilling on their grave if the ground shakes they are still alive and if the ground stays still then they are really dead.
so my grandmother might not have been a Zombie and i didn't had to destroy her brain after all !
You could still consider being buried alive a risk as long as your either somewhere without good medical standards or just get incompetent medical personnel to declare you dead.
I.e be in either a remote area or an area without medical personnel trained to modern standards.
Exactly there was a handicapped young women in the US that was just nearly embalmed alive only a few years ago because her family was told she died of a seizure even though that hadn't been the case.
No need for sleep
*I need history*
The people behind the time caosule failed to consider that at some point in the 5000 years that people may have come up with better ways of preserving things than sealing them away in a box. limiting the opening to a specific date so far in the future deprives people in the meanwhile from having access to that small part of history and sharing it with everyone afterwards
You'll have to forgive me in advance, but I just GOTTAH ask; what is UP w/ that 'vampire skull' on the bookshelf. Seriously, the fangs on that thing are longer than those of Ardipithecus Ramidus. In Muggle speak, those are just a couple of hundred dollar college words that mean 'missing link of human evolution'! ......I'm sorry, Simon, you were saying???
Creepy good
Perfect timing I was really bored!! Insomnia sucks except when there's a Simon Whistler video to watch!!
Try our BrainFood Show podcast. An hour-ish per episode of me and Simon drolling on non-stop. ;-) We're told many-a-listener uses it to fall asleep at night... Not sure if that's a compliment or not... ;-) -Daven
@@TodayIFoundOut I always forget about the podcast. I think it's probably a complimentary statement! I often just put one of Simons shows on autoplay and let it go until I drift off. The content is engaging and Simon's voice is calming! I'll check out the back catalogue of TIFO Podcasts tonight and let you know if it worked!! Live your channels guys!!
Holy shit, imagine having a funeral and watching your wife's body being buried, having the get together with friends and family afterwards and all that. Then later you're sitting there wondering if you could sleep and debating whether to go to bed or just sit there mourning and remembering your recently deceased loved one, when suddenly there's somebody banging at the door. You go and open the door to see who it is and what they want at such a late hour only to find yourself standing face to face looking at your wife that you literally just buried that day?
Well I guess one day you'd both look back at laugh at 'that time when you thought you was face to face with my ghost at the door on the night of my funeral ', hahahhlololll
Yeah just imagine, thinking you finally got rid of the old hag and she shows up. What a bummer!
Juila Lagare, the "little girl" who was buried alive in South Carolina, was 22. Still tragic.
I feel like this would make a good post apocalyptic buddy comedy where Jack Black and Michael Cera encounter a post-doomsday doomsday cult that believes opening the capsule would rapture then from the misery of their world... but instead it turns into a “Drink more Ovaltine” moment.
Anybody? 😁
The March of the simons continues unabated. God save us all
Hmm. Vampires maybe.
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just don't lose you're head over it!