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- As any fan of the history guy knows, all good stories involve Pirates. And of course the best of them have always sailed ‘The Seven Seas’. But what, precisely, are the seven seas? The term actually well predates the Golden Age of Piracy, and in a typical historical way the answer is not what you might expect.
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History Guy's finally done it! He talks so much about pirates, he's become one.
Methinks he’s just finally reverting to his natural state.
Pyrites. Hmm, Such as FeS2?
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And a puffy shirt too!...
Finally, we have an explanation for this - directly from a pirate and everything!
This is a perfect subject for the H.G. I've always wondered exactly that very thing for years. The subject always slipped my mind every time I went to the library. My mind always seems to go into overdrive whenever I found myself in the library.
Take note: THG isn't wearing one of his iconic bow ties in this episode - until the end.
It just was not the same without a bow tie!
Not so; check out the pirate hat…
@@VictorMartinez-nk4rt A pirate hat makes a perfect substitute to a bow tie.
Good catch ... that's the kind of research the internet was made for
I thought so too until someone mentioned that he cleverly snuck it into his costume (decoration on the pirate hat 😁)
I still remember when I first heard the term as a kid counting them. I never came up with 7. Love your channel.
I never counted seven either.
@@johnycoho7830 I cuss you!
Navy retiree here. I've STEAMED way more than 7 seas. It's one of those (many) things that sailors argue about when they're hoisting a few brews.
Thanks for your service Shipmate. Retired OS1(SW/AW)
ET2 nuke here, the seven seas are owned by the 7th fleet.
Thank you for your service. I didn't serve in the military but my dad did (he passed away in 1998). He was in the Armed Guard in the Navy during World War II. He was serving on a Liberty Ship (SS Penelope Barker) when a German U-boat torpedoed it sending it to the bottom of the sea in 1944. My father, who was ill at the time, was carried off the ship and put in a lifeboat moments before it sunk. We owe so much to those who serve now and served in the past
Thanks, brother. AW1/LCDR - Ret.
What did you do? How many illegal American wars did you participate in?
My best wishes for all of us fathers in class and out of class. For this Father's Day weekend. Give your fathers hugs and appreciation that we don't get.
I take it that by class you are referring to some sort of schoolroom and not to a certain socio-economical class.
My colleagues dad just died (yesterday) and my dad died in 1999.
Relevance of my comment? About as much as yours in relation to this video...
@@pierrejeanf.dupuis4150 my condolences to your colleagues family for their loss. My father has been gone for so long. I still miss my parents. As far as the class comment. From me being one of the very first people to find his channel . And with his desire to teach I suggested all of us students to begin class!
@@constipatedinsincity4424 I'm replying to this while watching a video on how to repair a very particular model of Betamax video recorder.
I'll commend anyone who progresses society by advocating learning.
Yet I will oppose class in any shape or form (I apologize in advance to anyone who takes offence - not an attack on you, just at an archaic societal model).
@@pierrejeanf.dupuis4150 Thank you for clarifying that for me.
For anyone who would like to know, the lady singing at 13:01 is Yvonne De Carlo (aka Lily Munster) from the movie "Buccaneer's Girl" (1950)
The clip is from the movie trailer. The link is in the video description.
Am I the only one wishing HG had chosen Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams instead? 😋
@@rolandflutet5048 the trailer to The Buccaneer’s Girl is in the Public Domain. The Eurythmics are not…
One of your best episodes ever. A wonderful mix of scholarship. humor, and humanity.
Gosh! A historian with an extraordinary sense of humor AND fabulous costume and sword! Where were you when I took history in high school. History is in your safe hands. The world rejoices.
Magellan TV is hardly documentary television. It is infotainment.
Thank you for a comprehensive albeit short description of literate and historical references to the term "The Seven Seas". At last I understand that it is not an actual historic term but more of a figuratively or symbolic term not even necessarily referring to actual seas at all.
Well, thank you. This FINALLY clears this up. Thanks, History Guy.
Aye! As a Pirate I have sailed just 2 of the 5 oceans so far under full sail...The Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico too I have sailed...while drinking the finest rums! My high seas adventures are on my RUclips channel which is pretty incriminating! Lol! I agree that Seven seas were associated with Pirates just because Pirate stories were popular although never mentioned in the literature. I love your videos mate! Very informative! Shifarrr!!! Raise the Black!
Thanks for the heads up, now I know what to avoid if I stumble upon it.
@@nedludd7622 Lol! Aye!
THG your pace, cadence & repetition in this episode are truly lyrical.
Excellent story- Nice job incorporating your bow tie in the costume!
I didn't catch that!
“… And really good eggs. Now bring me that horizon! “
Shiver me timbers History Guy. Keep up the good work, matey.
Always excellent and entertaining. THG videos have really grown in professional polish in a short time. Amazing really.
Love me some History. Thanks for sharing.
In the US Navy, I was told they were 7 seas in around the Mediterranean:
1) Black Sea
2) Adriatic Sea
3) Aegean Sea
4) Tyrhennian Sea
5) Ionian Sea
6) The Levantine Sea
7) The Gulf of Lyon
But, no Mediterranean Sea?
@@stevek8829 those at parts of the Med.
There is Sea of Marmara on the way to the Black Sea. But, Black Sea is removed from Caribbean. That seems a push.
Wow. Amazing how diverse the actual “meaning”. Cool !
Thank you. That was a great romp through history.
One of your finest episodes yet! Standing ovation!
Retired Navy. I have been in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, The Sea of Japan, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, The Java Sea, Malakan strait, Gulf Of Thailand, Laccadive Sea, The Arabian Sea, Tasman and Timor Seas, the Caribbean, The Med, and the Gulf of Mexico.
I wasn’t prepared for that opening.
Aaarrrgggghhhh another great The History Guy channel update
I'm really happy to hear that you mentioned Enheduanna. She's so often forgotten and neglected. Yet she's the first woman known for her literature and political role AFAIK.
I like the use of your costume and this episode.
I actually know all 7 of the 7 seas. The Seven Seas are: Creamy Italian, Italian, Green Goddess, Thousand Island, Red Wine, Viva Italian and my personal favorite, Zesty Italian! (OK, if you do not the joke, Kraft made a 7 Seas salad dressing line). 😁😉
Excellent, as usual!
Outstanding wardrobe and props choices in this episode!
Apparantly, "Seven Seas" must be a term that somehow translates into an attractively alliterative phrase in just about every language, ancient & modern. But if you really insist on an official list, than OK: I hereby declare, by virtue of my authority as a Random Guy On The Internet, the following to be for all time the Official, Canonical, list of the Seven Seas (ranked in decreasing order of quality):
1: The Caspian Sea
2: The Aegean Sea
3: Lake Huron
4: The Black Sea
5: The Sargasso Sea
6: Mare Nubium A.K.A The Sea Of Clouds (a region of the Lunar surface)
7: The Eastern Half of The Indian Ocean
There, that should settle things once & for all!
it's all relative
I propose Lake Ontario over lake Michigan-Huron for bo other reason than it's closer to me.
Jeeze HG, you really outdone yourself this time.
Susan & Tony here, I believe the gal singing was Misses Munster , You know Herman Munsters wife. Funny :D
Great stuff!! Always enjoy hearing you explain history of things. Reliably eloquent and thorough!!
My family and I went to the Whydah museum in Cape Cod. It has the only authentic pirate treasure ever retrieved and is a fascinating tale. Perhaps these are pirates the HGC might be interested in?
ruclips.net/video/2GZgf1j1n78/видео.html
I remember when they found the Whydah. Front page of The NY Times 1984. Photo of the bell.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Lol I was just thinking you already did a vid on Black Sam lol If you ever get low on material you could always do updated versions of older vids that you now have more info on.
Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues is an excellent series. I remember watching it on the BBC a few years ago.
I love this channel. One of the best researched and presented channels on YT. But if there is one nitpick that drives me nuts is the bloody framing. Just a little too much head room. All you gotta do is tilt that camera down a wee bit and voila, no more nitpick.
Thank you! I was thinking the same. Lance needs to frame is opening and closing shots better. It irks me as well as someone who worked in TV
I love the USS Constitution photo on the wall behind you. I have a small print of that photo or one close to it.
Thank you THG for yet another fun episode.
At 10:38, that’s absolutely beautiful scenery
I sailed most of the world's oceans and Seas during my 21 year Naval career...
Thanks for your service shipmate AM2 (AW) 2001-2009
I enjoy Your channel and admire the in-depth research that goes into Your very interesting presentations. I wonder if there is a land beyond the seven seas that has not been discovered yet?
Some day people will realize "Seven Seas" just sounds good.
But in so many different languages?
Nice song at the end - by *Lily Munster!* Yes, (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) Yvonne De Carlo, BC Canada-born, who had a good film and singing career before taking on her iconic mid-'60s TV role.
Ouch ... that was a misprint ... the seven C's are "cable, center-board, chart, cleat, close-reach, course and cringle" ...
This is thought-provoking. I served in the US Navy: three surface ships, two submarines, and a naval air station. The NAS did not go anywhere, and neither did one of the surface ships which spent the entire time I was on it in the yards. But the other two surface ships and both submarines were always on the move. So I started wondering if I've sailed the seven seas. Here's what I came up with, is no particular order, and not counting any that I'm not sure of:
Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, North Sea. North Atlantic. Sargasso Sea, Caribbean Sea, North Pacific, South Pacific, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Strait of Malacca, Java Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Aden.
I'm no pirate, but it's as close to a good story as you can get without pirates I suppose. I have crossed many lines, and am both a Shellback and a Bluenose. Now I live in North Dakota, about as far from any sea as one can get. The real question is, am I a salty dog or what?
Lovely work, as always!!!!
One thing we do know about the Seaven Seas is that The Village People sailed them.
Thanks!
Another great one....
Excellent video, my favourite video, best video.
Suggestion for an episode: Pigeon Point Light house: ship wrecks, rum runners, gun fights and murder.
There is a town called "caverna" in far sw Missouri that is said to have been originally a mining camp for Spanish silver miners, legend goes they were found by a group of American settlers going west and all killed, there silver stolen and the mines never found. I would love if you could find out if that's true and did an episode on that plus other similar stories
How are supposed Spanish miners different than white settlers?
@@nedludd7622 I'm not sure what you are asking? The miners were in what was there territory until the French got it and sold it then settlers just killed them all. it's a town of less than 100 that has kept the same name since before the Louisiana purchase, isn't that a little interesting to you?
@@aardeng It is rather simple. Why say "white" settlers when the supposed Spaniard miners they killed were white as well? That makes no sense.
@@aardeng It sounds to me like someone taking a simple story or legend and trying to make a racial argument out of it. Take Care and it is an interesting story, John
@@aardeng He's a troll. Don't feed him and maybe he will go away. Even the name is of a fictional character.
Some years ago out of curiosity I grabbed an atlas and listed every sea I could find. It came to twenty-five or thirty seas around the world!
Thank you for clarifying this!
I really enjoy every episode
In my Navy career, I sailed a number of seas, but lost count of the total: Caribbean, North, Black, Red, Arabian, Tasman, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Levantine, Agean, Tyrrhenian, Thracian, Ionian, Crete, Libyan, Balearic, Alboran, Sardinia, Ligurian, Marmara, Sargasso, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Mexico, etc... Also, I crossed the line in all three Oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian) that have the equator running through them. Plus, an Emerald Shellback. (As Walter Brennan used to say in the Guns of Will Sonnet: "No brag, Just Fact")
My grandfather crossed the line in ww2 as a marine in the pacific. I guess they all jumped overboard for a swim and became a member of something called "the order of the deep". I have his old membership card.
Just realized that we also have this phrase in Thai! "Rio et jet yan nam" or "101 plus 7 bodies of water". The 101 part probably refers to the 101 provinces or countries, land-based areas.
Yeah, I pretty much felt, like that was how my X friend saw it also as in the Asians seas, but hey, that's life, l just never felt the need to say anything,"so the song played on"...some people are more sensitive and preceptive than others.
Given the reliance the Greeks had on the sea itself, it would have made sense for them to divide the areas into various "seas" if for no other reason than simply navigational purposes. I'm sure other cultures would have done something similar. Interesting video!
With an intro like that, I knew we were in for a treat.
I was not ready for that intro!
Now,that's more like it. I won't ask where you got your gear, but I will say "Well done ". One opera clap 👏
I spent 20 years as a sailor and this question was the subject of many an argument over a bottle of rum. I always understood that the term came from Homer or some such ancient author, and assumed that would mean the Mediterranean and smaller ones within it. Amongst those, I would always include the Sea of Crete when building a list.
Thanks for the clarity (?) on the subject, I now am able to say with great confidence that I sailed the seven seas.
So what you're saying is, it is conceivable that on a Saturday several short smiling small somewhat strong smelling sailors surviving scurvy simultaneously (seen singularly) set seven sunny sea sailing somewhere? So supremely scary...
absolutely adore your passion of history👍
Woah! Cool threads, cooler globe THG! The hat really sets it off... and the sword? Your house seems like it would have some cool stuff in it lol
Thanks Lance, now I'm more confused than ever 🤯 lol
"And a tall ship, and a star to steer her by." Miss that.
Definitely laughed out loud at the beginning of the video. Well done Matey!
"As long as he's ashore!" LMAO!🤣
Man this was awesome. I started thinking of all those seas, though I have knowledge of, I have not sailed. Then yo got to the route to China, and I've sailed all those and the Great Lakes and more.
I really enjoyed hearing the history of so many global groups of "Seven Seas". Man some of the Square Rigger art in this moved my soul. Ive sailed aboard several as crew. USN Supercarrier CV 61
USS Ranger as well. Sailed solo as well.
USS Ranger 83-84
USS Ranger 86-90 when deployed with VF-2 TARPS. Was a PH.
@@danhaywood5696 AT
@@braddblk right on, which Squadron? We were F14'S. Think VF-2 may have been deployed aboard the Enterprise before the Ranger, I wasn't at Miramar till '86.
@@danhaywood5696 VA-165, A-6E, and KA-6D's. Your F-14 kept our tankers busy
There seems to be a lot of mythology around the number 7, giving rise to tropes such as being "the 7th son of a 7th son" which shows up in old blues songs. THG should do a history of the number 7. (And, instead of advertising Magellan TV, he could follow in the footsteps of Sesame Street and say "this episode of The History Guy was brought to you by the number 7! 😄).
Being the 7th son of a 7th son carries some heavy mojo with it. Magic, vampirism, lycanthropy, lots of things.
Yes!
@@AaronLitz , yes, but *why* do we have that folklore?
A wonderful excursion, thank you for the journey. - John
What a deep subject.
But now I see.
THG is adding movie footage now!
Thanks for clearing this subject up for me????
In the Navy you can sail the seven seas.
It's fun to stay at the YMCA
Magnificent intro!
We're dressing now.?...hummmm. love the content! Arrrrh.
Helluva lot of seas out there, eh HG? Can I just call you Wells?
At the Naval Academy, USNA, midshipmen dip their new class rings in water from the "seven seas" during a ceremony.
I randomly thought of THG's catchphrase yesterday; I guess the universe isn't so random!
thank you
The five oceans next please H.G
Do a video on the largest mutiny in US Navy history. Something like 350 sailors mutinied at Port Chicago, California in WWII.
That was Yvonne DeCarlo aka Lilly Munster and was in The Ten Commandant’s. She was a successful actor in her day.
I don't remember her in it but then I haven't seen it since I was a kid. It gave me bad nightmares.
@@midnightrambler8866 which one The TV show The Munsters or the movie The Ten Commandant’s?
"Songs are like tattoos/ you know I've been to sea before...." Joni Mitchell
Even the Great Lakes are sometimes referred to as inland seas, or freshwater seas.
Arrrrh...... I've sailed some of the seven seas while in the Navy and under some of them as well!!! The 7Seas was also a Navy "Department Store" in downtown San Diego catering to all things a "Swab" may need to travel and live at sea and ashore!
A missed opportunity there. You should have worn your bow-tie with the pirate garb and called yourself Stede Bonnet. :D
This is always just interesting.
I wonder in how many languages the phrase "Sail the Seven Seas" rolls off the tongue as silkily as it does in English? My guess is: more than we think, and i think is is as good an explanation of the turn of phrase as any, with the general meaning of "the high seas, beyond sight of land and out of thought of men". Cheers from Canada!
Fabulous as always! Rhere isnever a time qhwre I donr learn drom watching thanks!
I liked this channel more before the 2 minute long commercials.
the "ARRRR" intro actually made me jump a bit haha
Reminds me of the related phrases "four corners of the earth" and "four quarters of the earth," which also spark arguments :)
The term "Seven Seas" is like the term "Seven Wonders Of The World". It's all about one's perspective.🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
The Seven Seas has been a question I've wondered about since I heard the term as a child. I believe it was a rerun of an episode of The Monkees.