Despite already being interested in these topics, I specifically like General Knowledge's channel because he always manages to force Portugal in all (or most?) of his videos, and as a fellow Portuguese person it makes my day😂
The story of why I sometimes can comment so quickly: I have notifications turned on for your channel, for some reason only your channel is pushed to me immediately when you post. No other channel whom I follow, with notifications on, shows me as instantaneously as yours does. I've tried to get this on camera, but have yet to do so. I'm only as fast as UA-cam pushing me notifications is.
I am enamoured by your thirst for knowledge. It's great to see someone going down as many UA-cam rabbit holes as myself. Love watching your content; keep up the great work!
i come from a long line of Müller(Miller in english) although that ended when my grandfather married into that family. second most common name in germany is Schmidt(Smith) in it's different variations, since it is a very common occupation in medieval times. followed by Schneider(Tailor) and Fischer(Fisher).
Regarding the connection between Nowak and Nováková. Yes, it is basically the name (also in Slovak, "Novák" was derived from "new guy"). The detail is that in (some) Slavic languages, female surnames look gramatically different. For example, in a married couple the husband is named Novák and the wife Nováková (I guess in Polish, the wife is also called Nowak as her husband). Usually, there are more females of the same name (because women tend to live longer), that is why there are more people named Nováková than Novák in Czechia. Funny thing happens in Slovakia. Varga is a Hungarian name, and females of Hungarian nationality rarely add -ová to their name just because they live in Slovakia. So while I bet the sum of Novák and Nováková is larger than Varga and Vargová, Varga alone is more frequent than Nováková in Slovakia.
The current times in Finland are 6 months minimum, up to 12 months for reserve officers and non-commissioned officers and some specialists. You can substitute with civilian version which lasts for 347 days.
I am from Greece my conscription was for 12 months. The reason is the 400 years of occupation by Ottoman Turkey till year 1821 and 4-5 more wars followed after the liberation.. Actually, just two days ago, Turkey suspended the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe which gives them more flexibility now they preparing a huge army and navy fleet for the future.
Hi, as to conscription in Finland: Small population vs. uncomfortable imperialistic neighbor... All guys serve. I grew up in Brazil and went 1974 to the Finnish army, as everybody else until today, no matter where they may be when the time comes.
@@marryof995Austria promised to be neutral and as there is military in every country it makes sense to have an army strong enough by yourself. SI vis pacem...
Interesting. I was the cameraman on a 1980's BBC series about Brazil. The director was born in Brazil and though English and having left Brazil in his infancy, he had to get clearance from their embassy in London to not face possible draft- avoidance charges, though it might have taken eagle-eyes to spot his birthplace in his (presumably) British passport.
I am British and not young and have never met anyone with the surname Smith ever either! You are so intelligent it is a real pleasure to watch and hear your reactions to things 🙂
Come on...really? How is that possible? I can think of 10 or 20 Smith's off the top of my head. You must have met someone called Smith in your life even if you didn't know their surname.
On your music recommendation / requests, have you heard Bulgarian women singing their folk songs? To double as a channel recommendation, look for Charles Cornell’s “These INSANE Vocal Harmonies Just Blew Me Away”, or Jason Fieler’s “You’ve NEVER heard a choir like this” for its sheet music. (Last several times I posted UA-cam links in comments, they get deleted… don’t know why)
For others, they seem to have gone with Native American names a lot of the time. The Ogallala (or more commonly written Oglala) are a tribe of the Sioux peoples and relatively well-known for their resistance against US expansion in the area.
That was a great recommendation! CGP Grey has a lot of content I suspect you may like. I vaguely recall your posting a reaction to one of his videos that came down rather quickly. Maybe you encountered an issue in uploading it so I wont be disappointed in never seeing a reaction, but in case anyone is interested here are a few titles that have to do with maps on Grey's channel: Countries inside Countries What are Continents? Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas Canada & The United States's Bizarre Border Where is Scandinavia? Who Owns Antarctica? The Difference between the UK, Great Britain & England Explained
Sadly, from what I've seen over the years with people trying to react to his content, CGP Grey loves to do copyright strikes, so it's hard for anyone to react to his stuff without getting smacked by him.
@@MagsonDare That's fair. I can't criticize, especially in light of his sharing such wonderful content. I do feel like reaction videos help content awareness spread across different networks. It might even funnel more viewership to his podcasts. But I can't say I understand the site's add revenue distribution; which is probably at issue. Thanks for the info.
Some of my favorite songs from Estonia: Chalice - minu inimesed Põhja-Tallinn - Meil On Aega Veel Naised köögis - Aasta ema reket - “Võit” TIIU x OKYM x SEMY - Näita oma energiat Genka & Paul Oja - Meie Mäng TMF - Mitte Kui Midagi DEF RÄÄDU & J.O.C. - SUVEPÄIKE
Even the video producers missed it, stating that Glasgow was the rainest in Europe at 170 days, but, really, what is going on with Brussels and I assume, all of Belguim, with 199 days of rain, what are they trying to out do Seatlle?? Ha!
Very interesting one. I was hoping for a little bit more variety regarding the location of the maps, as you said South America would of been cool, also more Africa and Oceania. But it was fun nonetheless!
No Protocol: you requested suggestions for Estonian songs. One of my favorite singers happens to be Estonian: her name is Elina Nechayeva. She performed Estonia's entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, "La Forza". She is fluent in several languages, but here are some examples in Estonian. In order to avoid this comment being deleted by UA-cam for including hyperlinks, instead I'll quote the exact title of the video to copy into the UA-cam search box (ignoring the vertical line symbol, which is just to separate the titles when this comment is viewed on a smart TV), to which you should add the singer's name. The searches will typically display several hits; the video to choose has the run time shown in parentheses. Here goes: | (2:43) Jõuluingel | (3:20) Klassikatähed 2014 - Elina Netšajeva & Sorrõsetod | (3:22) Vaid see on armastus LIVE | (3:26) Lind (Official Video) | (3:32) Eesti muld ja Eesti süda LIVE | (3:46) Ei saa mitte vaiki olla & Blob Opera (Taltech conference opening) I do recommend searching for Elina's other videos in various languages. I think she deserves to be more widely known.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for taking the time! I’m going to listen to these tomorrow and let you know which were my favorite (: I certainly haven’t heard of her before!
Update: I can honestly say that none of these are in genres that I would typically gravitate towards, but I had a nice time looking up the lyrics (and I always like to hear music in different languages). Vaid See on Armastus was sung in an undeniably beautiful, almost haunting voice. I liked it all the much more once I translated the lyrics. Thanks again for bringing these to my attention (:
I imagine all that warm Mediterranean air flies right over Barcelona and precipitates out after the hills inland lift it high enough to condense over Andorra.
Some things that caught my interest before the 6 minute mark. So I like when they started talking about how much rain they get per year. Up until today the 11th, every single day in April has been rainy, except for maybe one, might have been raining when I was asleep. We are now enjoying floods and road blockages, yay. 🙄You’ll get at least 5 rainy days a month where I’m at in the US. Even 60 times a year still sounds low.🤔Also, when it comes to names, there are a ton, and I mean a TON, of German descendants in this state, not to mention various roads/ restaurants named after German names or cities.(3 hints where I’m at: horseshoe, racecar, zoo.)
Book suggestion: Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Paglen. And speaking of Rossi, I think you might enjoy MotoGP, it could be the next sport you explore on the channel.
On the rainy days part. He says Glasgow has the most rainy days, but brussels has a lot more : almost 200 (199/365) And while watching from Belgium, it is raining now. Can't wait to go to Portugal 😂
A draft lottery is a way of randomizing the selection of draftees from the year being drafted. The Vietnam lotteries were held during my high school years. My birthday was selected 40th in the first lottery and as high as 17th a few years later. The draft was discontinued about half way through high school but the lotteries went on for a few years after that. You can find the lottery results online if you want to see where your own birthday landed. Sep 14, July 9 and Dec 4 are the dates picked first in the years when it mattered the most.
Limited on the conscription map means not everyone serves or has to, it's usually a lottery system, or they select the fittest via test scores and medical records but that's rarer than lottery systems.
2:15 Very few. East Germany is in its vast majority actually non-religious, and with a rather low proportion of immigrants, the "other" category (mostly Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism) is really small. The otherwise common Christian denominations (mostly Protestant, in a few regions Catholic) usually take (distant) second place after non-religious.
The further reach of expeditions to africa from classical antiquity is Carthaginian expedition by Hanno the Navigator, who reached (probably) Cameroon (though he did it by sea). There is also theory that Phoenicians serving Egyptian pharaoch Necho II successfully circumnavigated africa, but the only source for this claim is Herodotus, who himself states he does not believe it. Necho II was also the pharaoh who at least began works towards building a channel to connect mediterranean and red seas.
I'm always happy when an American knows that Middle Eastern countries & South Asian countries are a part of Asia. A low bar but I know a lot of Indian-Americans that refuse to acknowledge that they're Asian.
I've never been to Mexico city. But I've heard it was once an ancient metropolis centered in lake with canals for moving freight. If the city is in a depression to collect rainwater then it might have an impact on wind patterns. Without enough wind to blow away rising moisture it may just come back down when the updrafts stop with evening cool. Maybe the city's got it's own precipitation pattern like a rain forest?
I’ve read both books although very long ago. Razor’s Edge is deep and has sentimental value for me as it was a gift from a friend who is no longer with us. My friend actually gave me that to try to express a spiritual understanding to me. Another worthy read he gave me in that vein was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The first 70 pages or so about the priest visiting the former revolutionary are magical. The rest of the book is epic. Don’t want to nitpick but you said you’d give a book from either continent when Kundera was Czech and Maugham was English.
This was nice, i love making fake maps and lore of our world or others so theses maps were quite fun, it gave me more ideas for the DnD world im making. Stopp, seisku aeg! was so unique i think i never listened to an estonian singer before velly joonas is so mesmerizing, the nasty mashup was nice too very chill.
8:03 Norway has limited conscription. The way we do it is that random people are called in to a essentially interview. There your motivation, health etc is evaluated. And the best recruits are conscripted and gets training. In case of war they'll be the first one seeing the frontline while the rest of us who don't get conscripted during peacetime gets training. The advantage of getting conscripted during peacetime is that they have the time to give you better training then they might if they need troops fast. Some Ukrainian troops only gets a month of training before going to the front, when six months is considered a bit on the low side. Poorly trained troops die *really* fast in a war. But yeah, in theory all men and women of the right age may be conscripted both during peace time and war. But if you register as a conscientious objector you can serve a civilian service instead. It's longer then the military one. 12:33 It's not healthcare. Norway has better healthcare then several of these. However sunlight matters. And perhaps some of the factors you mentioned as well. 13:49 I wish that it *was* improbable... But considering that the melting of the permafrost is releasing huge amounts of methane and that as the ice melts less and less sunlight is reflected of white surfaces and that water works as a lubricant speeding up the movement of ice towards the sea where the heat of the ocean melts it rapidly... Yeah, this is a very likely scenario... We're well on our way to finally end the ice age that we evolved in...
Until 2011 Germany had conscription too. I was a conscript in the German army in 2001. 8:00 When your country gets attacked/invaded (pretty sure it will apply to almost all countries) at some point basically anyone who can hold a weapon has to fight anyway (or flee).
i go mia 4 a month & come back to some fresh map p0rn & u FINALLY having a damn patreon !?!? wattba .. cant wait to check it out ! 100 but x 2 , b/c u cant just casually be 1 of YTs most underrated channels AND most lit shirt wearers 🤌🏽 gang ♡
Hey, I was wondering how you’ve been, hope everything is well! The shirt is new haha was pretty excited about this one. Glad to see you like map stuff too. Thank you again (: this makes my month
The interior of the western half of the US is always going to be sparsely populated relative to the rest of the country. Its climate and geography are unsuited to intense agriculture and also make transportation in the area difficult. So not only would most food have to be shipped in from outside the area, but doing so would be more expensive than shipping it into and around other regions of the US. And only a small number of areas in the mountainous part of the region can support the kind of sprawling metropolitan area that American cities are known for.
Smith comes from people who worked with metal like blacksmiths so it makes sense that we have so many in England because there wasn't much to do around 1066 when we started using surnames than bang metal with a rock.
I was born in England, my surname is Hull, there is a Finnish snooker play called Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) a Finnish former professional snooker player. An ancestor of mine was born in the NE of England, once under Danelaw. Hull was born and raised in Finland, to a Finnish mother and an English father, ah ha so I wonder if I'm related, a nephew has not found a connection as yet.
I think limited conspiration probably means you have to do it unless you have something better going on that you can demonstrate. I think it used to be the case in Italy, but practically anyone who was studying or working could get out of it easily (this was in the period shortly before they ended it in 2004).
Ukrainian Melnyk (also yellow on the map) is the same as Miller or Müller, as it is the name of the profession of a person who mills the grain. Koval or Kovalchuk is also a professional analogy for Smith and Schmidt and can be considered one of the most popular last names here.
"Venice would disappear into the ocean" is the Med an Ocean? What are the 5 oceans? The planet Earth contains one giant global ocean. However, it can be divided into five oceans depending on the area it is located in. The five oceans on the planet Earth are the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Antarctic Ocean. The Antarctic Ocean is also known as the Southern Ocean. Many people use the terms "ocean" and "sea" interchangeably when speaking about the ocean, but there is a difference between the two terms when speaking of geography (the study of the Earth's surface). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
FYI East Germany being non-religious on the map is likely due to the Soviet regime that imposed state atheism and heavily restricted religious literature and influences, so most of the population in post-soviet or soviet-influenced states either had very limited or no religious upbringing
Its perhaps a little dry but i recently watched a very interesting video about Wikipedia and a graphical representation of said website. Im not certain it would make great content for your channel but it was a fascinating video which may interest you. I can link the video if you'd like?
Attributing the distribution of Protestantism vs. Catholicism to the Roman Empire is nonsense. Protestantism emerged much later. The most important and probably decisive event here is the 30 Years' War. A long war between Protestants and Catholics in Central Europe. (Against this background, it is actually surprising that the Napoleonic occupation did not have any significant influence on this. One would actually have to assume that Napoleon's allies such as Bavaria would have to be more Protestant because Napoleon was very hostile to Catholicism, but in this example it is the opposite is the case.)
Silva was most likely the name of the slave holder, and Da Silva became the last name of the (former) slaves. In the peace of Augsburg it was agreed that everybody had to follow the religion of their monarch. The peace didn't last very long, 63 years before the 30 years broke out but the catholic and protestant little states remained in the HRE/Germany.
My last name is not going to be in any liost of 'most common' so I feel your pain (or relief)! For rainfall, the city of Manchester is very stable, having, reputedly, just two type of waether: raining or about to rain 🤣 In that equal population thing for the 50 states of the US ... where were Alaska and Hawaii? A bit disappointed with the couple of times he said "I don't know, I could have checked ...", but apart from that it was interesting. For books: "Longitude" by Dava Sobell is fascinating, dealign with the problem solved by Harrison and his clocks in how to accurately caclulate longitude. For music: I am struggling for a map-based one ...!!! Ok, really stretching things - "Dance on a Volcano" by Genesis
4:27 I see my country Chile within the limited category so maybe I can explain to anyone interested what our limitations are: aside from the typical age and health exceptions (physical and mental) there's also exceptions for people with tattoos in very visible places like hands, face and neck. Homosexual men can also be exempted sometimes altho I'm not sure what the criteria is but I'm pretty sure flamboyance is a factor, like if you show up in full make-up. If you are your family's sole source of income your are also exempt, or if you did the paperwork to begin your higher studies (college/university) by the time you receive your notice you can opt to have a shorter summer military service of about 3 months or you can push your service back for when you finish studying. I'm not quite well informed on what the criteria for transgender women is. Also if we talk rare last names I have something to boast about, my father is not Chilean and he has a non-Spanish last name, the last name itself isn't anything very rare in it's place of origin but here it's so uncommon that only 3 people in the whole country (last I checked we are almost 20 million people here) are registered with it, and it's my dad, me and my brother 😅 I found this out not too long ago while using one of those track your heritage type of websites.
East Germany here, the other on the religious map is probably some muslim, and some eastern religions since those are the immigrant people living here (mostly turkish, and maybe vietnamese people) also jewish people (I live next to a giant synagoge). Also we still have many many churches in every city and in every village. Even cloisters here and there.
This woman is ruining other women for me. So beautiful, so insightful, so interesting...Gotta stop watching these, I'll have such unreasonable expectations forever. But...shes also so entertaining =(
I'd recommend checking Atlas Pro out, not many react to his material but it's delightfully nerdy and the creator is very enthusiastic about his subject.
completely random, unrelated factoid (this seems a suitable video to discuss interesting information): apparently (i have not verified this so please research yourselves) we humans have twice as many female ancestors as male. now on first hearing this, it sounded completely illogical and untrue to me (one male parent, one female parent, equal through every generation etc. etc...) but the reasoning given was that the general trend through history is: 1. more women have children than men 2. more men have children with more than one woman than vice versa and when that is extrapolated over a loooong time, you end up with genetic records that demonstrate twice as many female ancestors. i would guess, based on very incomplete, rhetorical data, that this trend has changed drastically in a short space of time. to be honest, it's hard to tell if it really matters, and also whether has any meaningful good/bad effects on human genealogy and sociology, but i found the claim fascinating. and briefly on the subject of average life expectancy, although obviously there are many factors like diet which contribute to this. but i heard someone present an interesting theory to do with the geology of certain areas. different rocks have different electromagnetic frequencies and may affect people who live there. which would explain why certain very small areas of japan and italy have unusually long life expectancies even when compared to areas very close by and the nation in general. i vaguely remember the presenter talking about doing electromagnetic readings in those areas, obviously this is a far less substantial claim than the first one i explained, but there's no doubt that many parts of physics are as of yet not very well understood, even though a lot of science is very advanced. so for example, things that we currently label "supernatural" are merely beyond our understanding, and are as real as any other law of physics.
on music recommendations, any live frank zappa album, but especially "buffalo" which was posthumously released in 2007. and also "banned from utopia live in israel 1997", which was most of his band playing renditions of zappa's work. best tracks from this show are "any kind of pain" which is a fantastic tune and arrangement, and the version of "outside now" which really conveys the visceral loss of zappa a couple of years before. it is a beautiful tribute to one of the finest composers/musicians of all time. his performance of "watermelon in easter hay" from the live show in barcelona 1988 is one of my favs
Limited means that not everyone is conscripted, but that it is still ongoing. By contrast, the US has suspended its draft entirely, though adult males still have an obligation to serve if it is ever reinstated.
Since you asked a bout religion in east germany - some numbers for the area where Luther worked (Mitteldeutschland, which is part of the east): about 8 % percent believe in a personal God, those are mostly protestant, with some tiny catholic areas. 70 % have never at any point in their lives believed in a god of any kind (splitting into atheists and agnostics) the rest mostly believe in a some vague deistic god/surpreme being. Less then one percent of people are muslims, less then one tenth of a percent are jewish. Numbers are based on surveys and reflect actual believe. A lot of deists and even atheist are still nominally members of a protestant church and have never bothered to leave. If you look at church members, its about 15-25 % protestants and 4-8 % catholics
I'm interested why. Is it an occupational name (like here UK, Smith, Fletcher etc). What does Hansen mean in English, if it can be translated. I remember a Alan Hansen used to play for Liverpool Football Club, who a LOT of Norwegians come over to watch!
@@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc I think it means "son of " Hans. The name goes back centuries. Also the same for "nordic" names like Nilsen and Jensen. They are all very common in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Although Swedes spells them a bit different. In Sweden it's Hansson, Larsson. Guess they have the same origin.
2:00 in, I'm pretty sure what's part of Southern Germany now used to be a part of the Holy Roman Empire about a century (*Edit* I meant to say millennium ago*) ago, so it has always been highly catholicized by the Vatican, Northern Germany is where that dude, his name eludes me at the minute, nailed the protestant doctrine to a church door.... I could be wrong though. If anyone knows any better please educate this poor soul 🙂
I've been trying to find the confidence to "be a youtuber" but I'm paranoid that I'll get doxed by some lunatic, and there are only about 500 people in the world with my surname, and I'm the only one with my first, middle and last name. Ok I just don't have the confidence 😂
You should check Serbia and other Serbian republics (Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina)... Also there was two Serbian republics in todays Ukraine (New Serbia or Novoserbia and SlavoSerbia)
That smile contagious af
Love how when you pause a vid to react, it's a pertinent point to react to, not just stopping to voice an opinion. Love your vids.
Despite already being interested in these topics, I specifically like General Knowledge's channel because he always manages to force Portugal in all (or most?) of his videos, and as a fellow Portuguese person it makes my day😂
I was wondering if he was from Portugal!
The story of why I sometimes can comment so quickly: I have notifications turned on for your channel, for some reason only your channel is pushed to me immediately when you post. No other channel whom I follow, with notifications on, shows me as instantaneously as yours does. I've tried to get this on camera, but have yet to do so. I'm only as fast as UA-cam pushing me notifications is.
I have been curious lol. There’s something fun about posting a video & waiting to see how quickly you’ll get here.
I am enamoured by your thirst for knowledge. It's great to see someone going down as many UA-cam rabbit holes as myself. Love watching your content; keep up the great work!
i come from a long line of Müller(Miller in english) although that ended when my grandfather married into that family. second most common name in germany is Schmidt(Smith) in it's different variations, since it is a very common occupation in medieval times. followed by Schneider(Tailor) and Fischer(Fisher).
Regarding the connection between Nowak and Nováková. Yes, it is basically the name (also in Slovak, "Novák" was derived from "new guy"). The detail is that in (some) Slavic languages, female surnames look gramatically different. For example, in a married couple the husband is named Novák and the wife Nováková (I guess in Polish, the wife is also called Nowak as her husband). Usually, there are more females of the same name (because women tend to live longer), that is why there are more people named Nováková than Novák in Czechia.
Funny thing happens in Slovakia. Varga is a Hungarian name, and females of Hungarian nationality rarely add -ová to their name just because they live in Slovakia. So while I bet the sum of Novák and Nováková is larger than Varga and Vargová, Varga alone is more frequent than Nováková in Slovakia.
nepoznam jedineho vargu :D ale novakovcov a horvathovcov poznam milion 🤣
No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
Thanks!
Thank you as well Thomas (:
The current times in Finland are 6 months minimum, up to 12 months for reserve officers and non-commissioned officers and some specialists. You can substitute with civilian version which lasts for 347 days.
Thank you for this info!
I am from Greece my conscription was for 12 months. The reason is the 400 years of occupation by Ottoman Turkey till year 1821 and 4-5 more wars followed after the liberation.. Actually, just two days ago, Turkey suspended the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe which gives them more flexibility now they preparing a huge army and navy fleet for the future.
Hi, as to conscription in Finland: Small population vs. uncomfortable imperialistic neighbor... All guys serve. I grew up in Brazil and went 1974 to the Finnish army, as everybody else until today, no matter where they may be when the time comes.
Which makes sense for finland, but austria ? the empire times are over.
@@marryof995Austria promised to be neutral and as there is military in every country it makes sense to have an army strong enough by yourself. SI vis pacem...
Interesting. I was the cameraman on a 1980's BBC series about Brazil. The director was born in Brazil and though English and having left Brazil in his infancy, he had to get clearance from their embassy in London to not face possible draft- avoidance charges, though it might have taken eagle-eyes to spot his birthplace in his (presumably) British passport.
hey ,tell me about all of the conflicts between Finland and Russia? How many of them were actually started by Russia?
@geodude205 AFAIK during last one hundred years 4/4 by Kremlin. Now counting shots fired, men down cases.
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I hope the same for you Joe (:
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Thank you too! Hope you like this one (:
Nice vid! All coastal areas which are in danger of water coming in, do eventually end up contacting the Netherlands to keep their heads above water 👌
Keeping your head above water is how the Dutch kame to be the tallest people in Europe - none of the shorter ones made it.
I am British and not young and have never met anyone with the surname Smith ever either!
You are so intelligent it is a real pleasure to watch and hear your reactions to things 🙂
There wasn't one person in your school named Smith...we had so many in mine in Canada.
I am from England and saw crap loads of them in school and around.
Come on...really? How is that possible? I can think of 10 or 20 Smith's off the top of my head. You must have met someone called Smith in your life even if you didn't know their surname.
@@ruk2023-- I am a Smith and I can confirm she has never met me!
I knew a Richard Wright but not the Pink Floyd one. Dr Who uses John Smith as an alias.
Loved Velly Joonas, will definitely listen to more. Odd and strange.
I’m glad you liked it! She has another song called “Käes on Aeg” that you may enjoy as well
On your music recommendation / requests, have you heard Bulgarian women singing their folk songs? To double as a channel recommendation, look for Charles Cornell’s “These INSANE Vocal Harmonies Just Blew Me Away”, or Jason Fieler’s “You’ve NEVER heard a choir like this” for its sheet music. (Last several times I posted UA-cam links in comments, they get deleted… don’t know why)
Shiprock 9:50 I know this one, it's an interesting old volcanic rockformation in the northwest of New Mexico, worth checking out!
I always appreciate the fun facts! I’m going to look this up
@@NoProtocol @TuckerGott here on YT has a cool flyover of the place with his paramotor :)
For others, they seem to have gone with Native American names a lot of the time. The Ogallala (or more commonly written Oglala) are a tribe of the Sioux peoples and relatively well-known for their resistance against US expansion in the area.
That was a great recommendation!
CGP Grey has a lot of content I suspect you may like. I vaguely recall your posting a reaction to one of his videos that came down rather quickly. Maybe you encountered an issue in uploading it so I wont be disappointed in never seeing a reaction, but in case anyone is interested here are a few titles that have to do with maps on Grey's channel:
Countries inside Countries
What are Continents?
Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas
Canada & The United States's Bizarre Border
Where is Scandinavia?
Who Owns Antarctica?
The Difference between the UK, Great Britain & England Explained
Sadly, from what I've seen over the years with people trying to react to his content, CGP Grey loves to do copyright strikes, so it's hard for anyone to react to his stuff without getting smacked by him.
@@MagsonDare That's fair. I can't criticize, especially in light of his sharing such wonderful content. I do feel like reaction videos help content awareness spread across different networks. It might even funnel more viewership to his podcasts. But I can't say I understand the site's add revenue distribution; which is probably at issue.
Thanks for the info.
I always have a great day when No Protocol uploads a video. I wish she would Live Stream.
I’m glad you’re still liking the videos!
Some of my favorite songs from Estonia:
Chalice - minu inimesed
Põhja-Tallinn - Meil On Aega Veel
Naised köögis - Aasta ema
reket - “Võit”
TIIU x OKYM x SEMY - Näita oma energiat
Genka & Paul Oja - Meie Mäng
TMF - Mitte Kui Midagi
DEF RÄÄDU & J.O.C. - SUVEPÄIKE
Even the video producers missed it, stating that Glasgow was the rainest in Europe at 170 days, but, really, what is going on with Brussels and I assume, all of Belguim, with 199 days of rain, what are they trying to out do Seatlle?? Ha!
I subscribe to his channel and yours. General knowledge has many interesting videos on countries, cultures, religion and other historic topics.
Smith is a common name here in Shreveport Louisiana.
Very interesting one. I was hoping for a little bit more variety regarding the location of the maps, as you said South America would of been cool, also more Africa and Oceania.
But it was fun nonetheless!
No Protocol: you requested suggestions for Estonian songs. One of my favorite singers happens to be Estonian: her name is Elina Nechayeva. She performed Estonia's entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, "La Forza". She is fluent in several languages, but here are some examples in Estonian. In order to avoid this comment being deleted by UA-cam for including hyperlinks, instead I'll quote the exact title of the video to copy into the UA-cam search box (ignoring the vertical line symbol, which is just to separate the titles when this comment is viewed on a smart TV), to which you should add the singer's name. The searches will typically display several hits; the video to choose has the run time shown in parentheses. Here goes:
| (2:43) Jõuluingel
| (3:20) Klassikatähed 2014 - Elina Netšajeva & Sorrõsetod
| (3:22) Vaid see on armastus LIVE
| (3:26) Lind (Official Video)
| (3:32) Eesti muld ja Eesti süda LIVE
| (3:46) Ei saa mitte vaiki olla & Blob Opera (Taltech conference opening)
I do recommend searching for Elina's other videos in various languages. I think she deserves to be more widely known.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for taking the time! I’m going to listen to these tomorrow and let you know which were my favorite (: I certainly haven’t heard of her before!
Update: I can honestly say that none of these are in genres that I would typically gravitate towards, but I had a nice time looking up the lyrics (and I always like to hear music in different languages). Vaid See on Armastus was sung in an undeniably beautiful, almost haunting voice. I liked it all the much more once I translated the lyrics.
Thanks again for bringing these to my attention (:
I imagine all that warm Mediterranean air flies right over Barcelona and precipitates out after the hills inland lift it high enough to condense over Andorra.
Smith came from the person’s job Smith was a person who made metal items - especially shoes for horses.
Some things that caught my interest before the 6 minute mark.
So I like when they started talking about how much rain they get per year. Up until today the 11th, every single day in April has been rainy, except for maybe one, might have been raining when I was asleep. We are now enjoying floods and road blockages, yay. 🙄You’ll get at least 5 rainy days a month where I’m at in the US. Even 60 times a year still sounds low.🤔Also, when it comes to names, there are a ton, and I mean a TON, of German descendants in this state, not to mention various roads/ restaurants named after German names or cities.(3 hints where I’m at: horseshoe, racecar, zoo.)
Book suggestion: Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Paglen. And speaking of Rossi, I think you might enjoy MotoGP, it could be the next sport you explore on the channel.
On the rainy days part.
He says Glasgow has the most rainy days, but brussels has a lot more : almost 200 (199/365)
And while watching from Belgium, it is raining now.
Can't wait to go to Portugal 😂
A draft lottery is a way of randomizing the selection of draftees from the year being drafted. The Vietnam lotteries were held during my high school years. My birthday was selected 40th in the first lottery and as high as 17th a few years later. The draft was discontinued about half way through high school but the lotteries went on for a few years after that. You can find the lottery results online if you want to see where your own birthday landed. Sep 14, July 9 and Dec 4 are the dates picked first in the years when it mattered the most.
Limited on the conscription map means not everyone serves or has to, it's usually a lottery system, or they select the fittest via test scores and medical records but that's rarer than lottery systems.
2:15 Very few. East Germany is in its vast majority actually non-religious, and with a rather low proportion of immigrants, the "other" category (mostly Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism) is really small. The otherwise common Christian denominations (mostly Protestant, in a few regions Catholic) usually take (distant) second place after non-religious.
Europe is currently having a big rethink on National Service.
The further reach of expeditions to africa from classical antiquity is Carthaginian expedition by Hanno the Navigator, who reached (probably) Cameroon (though he did it by sea). There is also theory that Phoenicians serving Egyptian pharaoch Necho II successfully circumnavigated africa, but the only source for this claim is Herodotus, who himself states he does not believe it. Necho II was also the pharaoh who at least began works towards building a channel to connect mediterranean and red seas.
You are beaming
I'm always happy when an American knows that Middle Eastern countries & South Asian countries are a part of Asia.
A low bar but I know a lot of Indian-Americans that refuse to acknowledge that they're Asian.
I've never been to Mexico city. But I've heard it was once an ancient metropolis centered in lake with canals for moving freight. If the city is in a depression to collect rainwater then it might have an impact on wind patterns. Without enough wind to blow away rising moisture it may just come back down when the updrafts stop with evening cool. Maybe the city's got it's own precipitation pattern like a rain forest?
I'm a Smith (62) from rainy Manchester, UK. What are the odds................😜
4:55 So 2nd highest rain days in Europe. I still feel that has been under counted...
another channel for video's on interesting maps is Geography King. For example Examining interesting maps -> ua-cam.com/video/-VpJX2ypZK8/v-deo.html
I’ve read both books although very long ago. Razor’s Edge is deep and has sentimental value for me as it was a gift from a friend who is no longer with us. My friend actually gave me that to try to express a spiritual understanding to me. Another worthy read he gave me in that vein was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The first 70 pages or so about the priest visiting the former revolutionary are magical. The rest of the book is epic.
Don’t want to nitpick but you said you’d give a book from either continent when Kundera was Czech and Maugham was English.
This was nice, i love making fake maps and lore of our world or others so theses maps were quite fun, it gave me more ideas for the DnD world im making.
Stopp, seisku aeg! was so unique i think i never listened to an estonian singer before velly joonas is so mesmerizing, the nasty mashup was nice too very chill.
I’m glad you liked the music! “Chill” is a perfect way to explain that Nasty mashup
8:03
Norway has limited conscription.
The way we do it is that random people are called in to a essentially interview.
There your motivation, health etc is evaluated.
And the best recruits are conscripted and gets training.
In case of war they'll be the first one seeing the frontline while the rest of us who don't get conscripted during peacetime gets training.
The advantage of getting conscripted during peacetime is that they have the time to give you better training then they might if they need troops fast.
Some Ukrainian troops only gets a month of training before going to the front, when six months is considered a bit on the low side.
Poorly trained troops die *really* fast in a war.
But yeah, in theory all men and women of the right age may be conscripted both during peace time and war.
But if you register as a conscientious objector you can serve a civilian service instead.
It's longer then the military one.
12:33
It's not healthcare.
Norway has better healthcare then several of these.
However sunlight matters.
And perhaps some of the factors you mentioned as well.
13:49
I wish that it *was* improbable...
But considering that the melting of the permafrost is releasing huge amounts of methane and that as the ice melts less and less sunlight is reflected of white surfaces and that water works as a lubricant speeding up the movement of ice towards the sea where the heat of the ocean melts it rapidly...
Yeah, this is a very likely scenario...
We're well on our way to finally end the ice age that we evolved in...
Until 2011 Germany had conscription too. I was a conscript in the German army in 2001.
8:00 When your country gets attacked/invaded (pretty sure it will apply to almost all countries) at some point basically anyone who can hold a weapon has to fight anyway (or flee).
Draft lottery I was saved from going to Vietnam, my number was in the 300s
i go mia 4 a month & come back to some fresh map p0rn & u FINALLY having a damn patreon !?!? wattba .. cant wait to check it out !
100 but x 2 , b/c u cant just casually be 1 of YTs most underrated channels AND most lit shirt wearers 🤌🏽 gang ♡
Hey, I was wondering how you’ve been, hope everything is well! The shirt is new haha was pretty excited about this one. Glad to see you like map stuff too.
Thank you again (: this makes my month
Looking forward to rag battle No Protocol vs Curious Droid.
The interior of the western half of the US is always going to be sparsely populated relative to the rest of the country. Its climate and geography are unsuited to intense agriculture and also make transportation in the area difficult. So not only would most food have to be shipped in from outside the area, but doing so would be more expensive than shipping it into and around other regions of the US. And only a small number of areas in the mountainous part of the region can support the kind of sprawling metropolitan area that American cities are known for.
9:43 Rainer would be the largest because it has Alaska with it LOL.
Smith comes from people who worked with metal like blacksmiths so it makes sense that we have so many in England because there wasn't much to do around 1066 when we started using surnames than bang metal with a rock.
I was born in England, my surname is Hull, there is a Finnish snooker play called Robin Hull (born 16 August 1974) a Finnish former professional snooker player.
An ancestor of mine was born in the NE of England, once under Danelaw.
Hull was born and raised in Finland, to a Finnish mother and an English father, ah ha so I wonder if I'm related, a nephew has not found a connection as yet.
Well in Poland military conscription is suspended not abolished. In case of an invasion threat from another country it will be unsuspended immediately
Yay Glasgow got a mention, unfortunately for the most rain...but i can confirm pretty much 😂
I think limited conspiration probably means you have to do it unless you have something better going on that you can demonstrate. I think it used to be the case in Italy, but practically anyone who was studying or working could get out of it easily (this was in the period shortly before they ended it in 2004).
Ukrainian Melnyk (also yellow on the map) is the same as Miller or Müller, as it is the name of the profession of a person who mills the grain. Koval or Kovalchuk is also a professional analogy for Smith and Schmidt and can be considered one of the most popular last names here.
Ancestral names mean names built from the name of your ancestors, like Andersson - The son of Anders etc.
The rains in Spain stays mainly on the plains.
The Dutch also reclaimed huge areas of east of England..
"Venice would disappear into the ocean" is the Med an Ocean?
What are the 5 oceans?
The planet Earth contains one giant global ocean. However, it can be divided into five oceans depending on the area it is located in. The five oceans on the planet Earth are the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Antarctic Ocean. The Antarctic Ocean is also known as the Southern Ocean.
Many people use the terms "ocean" and "sea" interchangeably when speaking about the ocean, but there is a difference between the two terms when speaking of geography (the study of the Earth's surface).
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Guam is by far the rainiest place I've been.
I’ve never been but just looked up pictures & the beaches look so nice
@@NoProtocol it's absolutely gorgeous. Thanks U.S Air Force...lol
Hey NP! Have you ever checked out any map videos by Johnny Harris on various topics? U may like.
Because the rain in Spain is mainly in the plains....
FYI East Germany being non-religious on the map is likely due to the Soviet regime that imposed state atheism and heavily restricted religious literature and influences, so most of the population in post-soviet or soviet-influenced states either had very limited or no religious upbringing
Sweden has limited which means there draft that takes from a pool of eligible citizens and if you are drafted you must go to the millitary
I’m from glasgow and it’s definitely more than 170 more like 358 with one way of sunny hot weather in the summer😂
Its perhaps a little dry but i recently watched a very interesting video about Wikipedia and a graphical representation of said website. Im not certain it would make great content for your channel but it was a fascinating video which may interest you. I can link the video if you'd like?
Attributing the distribution of Protestantism vs. Catholicism to the Roman Empire is nonsense. Protestantism emerged much later. The most important and probably decisive event here is the 30 Years' War. A long war between Protestants and Catholics in Central Europe. (Against this background, it is actually surprising that the Napoleonic occupation did not have any significant influence on this. One would actually have to assume that Napoleon's allies such as Bavaria would have to be more Protestant because Napoleon was very hostile to Catholicism, but in this example it is the opposite is the case.)
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Silva was most likely the name of the slave holder, and Da Silva became the last name of the (former) slaves. In the peace of Augsburg it was agreed that everybody had to follow the religion of their monarch. The peace didn't last very long, 63 years before the 30 years broke out but the catholic and protestant little states remained in the HRE/Germany.
France only got rid of conscription in 2001
My last name is not going to be in any liost of 'most common' so I feel your pain (or relief)! For rainfall, the city of Manchester is very stable, having, reputedly, just two type of waether: raining or about to rain 🤣
In that equal population thing for the 50 states of the US ... where were Alaska and Hawaii?
A bit disappointed with the couple of times he said "I don't know, I could have checked ...", but apart from that it was interesting.
For books: "Longitude" by Dava Sobell is fascinating, dealign with the problem solved by Harrison and his clocks in how to accurately caclulate longitude.
For music: I am struggling for a map-based one ...!!! Ok, really stretching things - "Dance on a Volcano" by Genesis
4:27 I see my country Chile within the limited category so maybe I can explain to anyone interested what our limitations are: aside from the typical age and health exceptions (physical and mental) there's also exceptions for people with tattoos in very visible places like hands, face and neck. Homosexual men can also be exempted sometimes altho I'm not sure what the criteria is but I'm pretty sure flamboyance is a factor, like if you show up in full make-up. If you are your family's sole source of income your are also exempt, or if you did the paperwork to begin your higher studies (college/university) by the time you receive your notice you can opt to have a shorter summer military service of about 3 months or you can push your service back for when you finish studying. I'm not quite well informed on what the criteria for transgender women is.
Also if we talk rare last names I have something to boast about, my father is not Chilean and he has a non-Spanish last name, the last name itself isn't anything very rare in it's place of origin but here it's so uncommon that only 3 people in the whole country (last I checked we are almost 20 million people here) are registered with it, and it's my dad, me and my brother 😅 I found this out not too long ago while using one of those track your heritage type of websites.
Like that U.S. population map. Nice to see the name TIDEWATER again.
One of the cashiers at my local grocery store looks a lot like you and I can't help think of you when I see her.
East Germany here, the other on the religious map is probably some muslim, and some eastern religions since those are the immigrant people living here (mostly turkish, and maybe vietnamese people) also jewish people (I live next to a giant synagoge).
Also we still have many many churches in every city and in every village. Even cloisters here and there.
4:27 Nguyen is "win".
This woman is ruining other women for me. So beautiful, so insightful, so interesting...Gotta stop watching these, I'll have such unreasonable expectations forever. But...shes also so entertaining =(
I'd recommend checking Atlas Pro out, not many react to his material but it's delightfully nerdy and the creator is very enthusiastic about his subject.
I’ll check it out then!
some small errors in his data ... " Copenhagen having an average of 170 rainy days " it says 103 on his map ...
completely random, unrelated factoid (this seems a suitable video to discuss interesting information):
apparently (i have not verified this so please research yourselves) we humans have twice as many female ancestors as male. now on first hearing this, it sounded completely illogical and untrue to me (one male parent, one female parent, equal through every generation etc. etc...) but the reasoning given was that the general trend through history is:
1. more women have children than men
2. more men have children with more than one woman than vice versa
and when that is extrapolated over a loooong time, you end up with genetic records that demonstrate twice as many female ancestors. i would guess, based on very incomplete, rhetorical data, that this trend has changed drastically in a short space of time. to be honest, it's hard to tell if it really matters, and also whether has any meaningful good/bad effects on human genealogy and sociology, but i found the claim fascinating.
and briefly on the subject of average life expectancy, although obviously there are many factors like diet which contribute to this. but i heard someone present an interesting theory to do with the geology of certain areas. different rocks have different electromagnetic frequencies and may affect people who live there. which would explain why certain very small areas of japan and italy have unusually long life expectancies even when compared to areas very close by and the nation in general. i vaguely remember the presenter talking about doing electromagnetic readings in those areas, obviously this is a far less substantial claim than the first one i explained, but there's no doubt that many parts of physics are as of yet not very well understood, even though a lot of science is very advanced. so for example, things that we currently label "supernatural" are merely beyond our understanding, and are as real as any other law of physics.
on music recommendations, any live frank zappa album, but especially "buffalo" which was posthumously released in 2007. and also "banned from utopia live in israel 1997", which was most of his band playing renditions of zappa's work. best tracks from this show are "any kind of pain" which is a fantastic tune and arrangement, and the version of "outside now" which really conveys the visceral loss of zappa a couple of years before. it is a beautiful tribute to one of the finest composers/musicians of all time. his performance of "watermelon in easter hay" from the live show in barcelona 1988 is one of my favs
Yay, my name is on the list lol
Limited means that not everyone is conscripted, but that it is still ongoing. By contrast, the US has suspended its draft entirely, though adult males still have an obligation to serve if it is ever reinstated.
Since you asked a bout religion in east germany - some numbers for the area where Luther worked (Mitteldeutschland, which is part of the east): about 8 % percent believe in a personal God, those are mostly protestant, with some tiny catholic areas. 70 % have never at any point in their lives believed in a god of any kind (splitting into atheists and agnostics) the rest mostly believe in a some vague deistic god/surpreme being. Less then one percent of people are muslims, less then one tenth of a percent are jewish. Numbers are based on surveys and reflect actual believe. A lot of deists and even atheist are still nominally members of a protestant church and have never bothered to leave. If you look at church members, its about 15-25 % protestants and 4-8 % catholics
My name, Hansen, was the most common name in my country, Norway. 🙂
I'm interested why. Is it an occupational name (like here UK, Smith, Fletcher etc). What does Hansen mean in English, if it can be translated. I remember a Alan Hansen used to play for Liverpool Football Club, who a LOT of Norwegians come over to watch!
@@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc I think it means "son of " Hans. The name goes back centuries. Also the same for "nordic" names like Nilsen and Jensen. They are all very common in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Although Swedes spells them a bit different. In Sweden it's Hansson, Larsson. Guess they have the same origin.
@@Roger9252 Thanks, makes perfect sense to me. All common Nordic names I have heard of in England.
My cousin live 5 minutes from my Mom in Newfoundland and sees reindeer outside her window all the time.
Yea the East African ones I feel were way off...speaking as one
For which map?
2:00 in, I'm pretty sure what's part of Southern Germany now used to be a part of the Holy Roman Empire about a century (*Edit* I meant to say millennium ago*) ago, so it has always been highly catholicized by the Vatican, Northern Germany is where that dude, his name eludes me at the minute, nailed the protestant doctrine to a church door.... I could be wrong though. If anyone knows any better please educate this poor soul 🙂
I've been trying to find the confidence to "be a youtuber" but I'm paranoid that I'll get doxed by some lunatic, and there are only about 500 people in the world with my surname, and I'm the only one with my first, middle and last name. Ok I just don't have the confidence 😂
The conscription map is also wrong. Same as in Finland, Estonia has mandatory conscription.
Thanks for adding this!
Odd that Tan is listed as the most common name in Malaysia. Tan is a Chinese surname, and the Chinese are less than 30% of the population.
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How do you know so much stuff about so many random topics?
143 days of rain in Manchester haha. If you're lucky. Id say 200 minimum.
You should check Serbia and other Serbian republics (Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina)... Also there was two Serbian republics in todays Ukraine (New Serbia or Novoserbia and SlavoSerbia)
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I’ll be watching