Quotulatiousness

February 12, 2019

Sun Yat-sen – Lies – Extra History

Filed under: China, History, Military — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Extra Credits
Published on 9 Feb 2019

Writer Rob Rath talks about all the cool stories and facts we didn’t get to cover in the Sun Yat-sen series.
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Recommended reading – The Unfinished Revolution: Sun Yat-Sen and the Struggle for Modern China

3:42 – flag time!

7:59 – what are the Triads anyway?

16:13 – one man’s legacy can be very malleable…

19:05 – movies depicting the Chinese Revolution

20:16 – the Walpole Connection TM

21: 35 – what’s next on Extra History?

History Summarized: Iroquois Native Americans

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 7 Aug 2017

There’s a fascinating history from just northwest of American history that is too often ignored. But that’s a damn shame, because it’s a damn cool history, and I’m going to talk about it dammit!

No, I didn’t accidentally misspell the title of this video when I sleepily uploaded this after I woke up. That’s absurd.

EXTRA CREDITS: HIAWATHA: https://youtu.be/79RApCgwZFw

This video was produced with assistance from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/OSP

QotD: Weather

Filed under: Environment, Humour, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

[W]ho wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889.

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