edison himself is also worthy of his own dicktionary, the abuse of those that worked for him, claiming their ideas as his own, his colossal blunders in trying to ruin tesla, and his attitude towards those wanting to use 'his" patents.
AC is a bit more dangerous since the frequency content of the signal allows for the impedance to be lower with AC. Meaning that with AC a human body (that have a fairly large capacitance) can allow for larger currents/power. But AC is allot easier to generate and transform between voltages compared to DC which is why it’s used in most power grids.
I know and I agree that he was a dick. I only want to point out that AC is a bit more dangerous at lower voltages then DC . It’s mostly an interesting fact (and also a plead for anyone to keep their forks away from the wall socket).
What about Rockefeller? Became rich by illegal means, but donated a large portion to charity. That's something that'd fit the series. Also, nice cushion.
THAT WOULD go more into a socio-political angle, I'm hoping Indy will do a series on Zinnian-style history,, LEANING TOWARDS a more socialistic view... The Cutthroat capitalist view is already presented in exhaustive abundance and variety other places... And I believe Indy and crew are very wisely avoiding specific stands in their history series presentation... But these anti-establishment clips are getting VERY popular...
@@TimeGhost I know that this is a year old but since this is starting back up, if you do an ep on Rockefeller, you could have it be "O is for Oil", or, as @Dairy Peak! RL said, "M for Monopoly" if you are really excited and can't wait
Do Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Walter Duranty who helped Stalin cover up the mass starvation in the Ukraine. He was so bad that there was even an attempt to revoke his prize.
There so many letters for good old Conrad - I for Idiot, H for Hack, M for Moron, X for Xenophobia, Y for Yellow, Z for Zerstörer .... there's literally no end to it.
He was also one of the few manufacturers in Detroit willing to hire African-Americans. He also created one of the first archives for corporate records, as he had his early Ford Company and personal records saved for future researchers and scholars. He also created Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum in an effort to save important buildings and early American machines, cars, farming equipment, and general Americana long before many institutions had. His anti-semitism though was pretty bad, but also fairly unfortunately common at this point in American history. And unlike most, he had the money and influence to popularize it. He is a mixed bag of good and bag which is a common matter with many American legends sadly.
Like the standing/gesture-object presentation man,, this IS A PERFECT format for adults and ESPECIALLY kids,, because you OBVIOUSLY ENJOY the act of teaching... and that communicates instantly...
Woodrow Wilson ( for allowing American industry to sell guns to the allies during ww1, a test to our neutrality and I would argue violation of American neutrality, for segregating DC and the American armed forces. MacArthur would be cool too, both because of the bonus army and events of the Korean War ,don't want to spoil a possible future project :) Keep on keeping on Indy and Spartie :)
I heard somewhere that the goon squad which monitored and investigated his employees was called the Department of Sociology. They investigated DV, family neglect, alcoholism, etc, and would also break in and look for company tools or supplies. He was big in aviation. I don't know if he helped develop the tri-motor aircraft, or if it was Germany, or if it was simultaneous, but Ford trimotors were in wide use in the 30's.
and btw, these historical docu's are what make me pay for utoob premee.... really wonderful and extraordinary work, and I am very grateful, would love to see you guys publish 20th history texts for 21st century American high school education. this is one of the few positive out growths of the internet in my life...
Thanks for the illuminating video! One suggestion however would be if you would also show the year numbers on screen when you mention them. Would make it a bit easier to follow for us non-native english speakers who are also obsessed with dates.
Love this channel and the other ones (WWI, WWII, etc). I was thinking Frederick Taylor , if not already mentioned, might qualify as a person who kinda ran with a sound idea of efficiency and took it to the "dick" level. I have only read a limited amount about him but this is my impression so far.
That's a very lovely guitar on the wall, I'm not sure what the video was about but that is a very lovely guitar on the wall. It's a shame people kept standing in front of it. It is a lovely guitar.😍
Love this. Outstanding work and a great and entertaining view of history. Keep up the great work, Indy, here and everywhere graced by your work. oh, and 1st I suppose.
E for Empire or P for Pasha: Enver Pasha, for his involvement in getting the Ottoman Empire fighting in the first world war. His many military blunders during the war.
Funny you put this out today, I've actually been editing my Ford series into 1 full-length video (over an hour long hah). Dude basically won ww2 for the Brits and Russians will all his tank production. And fun fact: he ran for Senate as a Democrat even though he was Republican because he was friends with Wilson, who asked him to oppose the Republican candidate. And Willow Run plant was run by Edsel. The company as a whole was run by Ford. You think he would let a union ally, even if family, have that important of a job? And everything he did to help his employees and try to curb the great depression deserves some good points lol. Singlehandedly bailing out banks and revitalizing entire towns economies. Still a lot of dickish stuff there so I'll give you that.
B-List History look forward to seeing the finished video! There’s no denying that he had good sides and bad sides. I’d take issue with his wholehearted support for the Allied war effort though - while formally still the chairman, he had no real power by then and operationally it really started on Edsel’s watch. Some say he even opposed it, but we haven’t seen any evidence to the veracity of that. In any case, even after Edsel died in 43, Henry regained only a portion of his previous powers.
Great show as always. One thing: Ford did indeed have a more dickery on an industrial scale which you missed, Indy. It was his rubber plantations in Brazil. In the 1910-20 years, hundreds of Native Brazilians were enslaved on these plantations (not all owned by Ford) as Robert Casement exposed. Later in the late 1920’s Ford pushed to have a monopoly on Brazil rubber production and created a “worker utopia” called Fordlandia, which eventually collapsed after doing great environmental harm. So add another dick point!
D is for Dick (Richard Nixon) E is for Empire (Plenty of options there) F is for Franz (Ferdinand) G is for Germany (Another one with plenty of options) I is for Indian (Andrew Jackson) J is for Jackson/Johnson (Plenty of Democratic presidents to choose from) L is for Leopold (King Leopold II of Belgium) Just a few ideas I came up with. :)
M is for Music(Richard Wagner): Not only was he notoriously anti-Semitic even for his period, he was so enamoured with himself that he set up a music festival devoted to his works alone, one that still runs annually.
Hey, here's a suggestion for the World Dicktionary How about Peter I of Russia? He was an incredibly intelligent man who founded the Russian Empire, and is known as "The Great" for good reason, but he was also an unbelievably cruel and ruthless man, who treated his people like resources, showed no empathy what so ever, and was incredibly heartless with his family. In 1698, there was an uprising against Peter's rule which he stuck down with incredible brutality. 4000 people were tortured, and 1000 were executed. To quote Wikipedia "Peter availed himself of savage tortures while investigating the incident. Many suspects were whipped to death with the knout, an extremely stout leather whip composed of numerous twisted strands. Many were stretched until their limbs broke; sophisticated iron thumbscrews were applied to the fingers and toes of some prisoners; while other had their backs slowly roasted or had their flanks and bare feet slowly torn apart with red-hot iron pincers. Peter thus induced suspect after suspect to name accomplices in a virtually unending cavalcade of forced, and likely often fake, confessions. As a result of a major investigation, 57 Streltsy were executed and the rest sent into exile. Upon his hurried return from London on 25 August 1698, Peter I ordered another investigation. Between September 1698 and February 1699, 1,182 Streltsy were executed and 601 were whipped, branded with iron, or (mostly the young ones) sent into exile. The investigation and executions continued up until 1707. The Moscow regiments, which had not participated in the uprising, were later disbanded. Streltsy and their family members were removed from Moscow." Two years later, he went to war against Sweden, where he once again made himself famous for his brutality and heartlessness. Peter conscripted peasants, gave them a few days of training, only armed half of them with muskets, and then sent them off to fight the Swedish army, which was at that point the most disciplined fighting force in Europe. After losing 30,000 men in a single day, Peter reacted with complete apathy. They had died in droves because he hadn't bothered to train them or equip them, sending them off to fight the most disciplined army in Europe even though he knew that would probably get slaughtered. And when they did, he couldn't even feign sadness at their deaths. Later on in the war, he was quite happy to let his Polish and Saxon allies get destroyed by the Swedes while he went on a plundering and raping rampage in Swedish Livonia (Modern day Latvia and Estonia) where he burnt down dozens of towns, killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately. His indiscriminate slaughter of civilians was even more dickish when you learn that earlier, Sweden had showed remarkable kindness to Russian prisoners, only disarming them before letting them go. This mercy was repayed by Peter by burning down cities and killing everyone inside, men, women and children alike. Now, I think all of that is enough to qualify Peter I as a world-class dick But there's even more to go through He wasn't just a cruel, heartless leader, but he was also an incredibly barbarous father and husband. After he heard rumours that his son was involved in a conspiracy, he had him arrested, tortured, and was going to execute him, but he died in prison beforehand. He apparently put needles under his sons fingernails, horrifically torturing him for days, forcing him to finally confess. He did that to his own son. Father of the year award right there. He also had his ex-wife, the mother of his son, tried on false charges of adultery and imprisoned It is also alleged that after he learnt that his wife had a lover, he had the lover tracked down, arrested and publicly beheaded in the Red Square, before his wife and daughters. He had the head of his wife lover pickled in a jar filled with liquor and forced her to keep it next to her bed. He had done to same thing to one of his own mistresses earlier, who's head he kept in his own room. So yeah, Peter I was a very intelligent ruler who made Russia a great power, but he was also a heartless psychopath, and I certainly think he warrants an entry in the Dicktionary.
Anybody who says the model T was "easy to drive" has never attemted to drive a model T... its nothing like a modern car! Maybe easy by the standards of those days, but 99% of people now wouldnt know where to start!
My grandfather and grand uncle opened a Ford dealership in Sweden in the early 20s by importing a few dozen Model Ts and a whole bunch of Ford tractors (my family is from the sticks). Children and grandchildren bringing up Henry's less attractive sides at family dinners made for interesting silences....
Another bit of dickery is how Henry and Edsel acquired the funds to buy up the Ford stock held by others...including one time suppliers the Dodge brothers, who by that time had their own competing car company. Cars and parts were shipped en masse and unordered to dealers and wholesalers--all on C.O.D. terms. A significant number of them were wiped out... Interestingly, at the end of World War II, with the company on shaky financial ground, Clara Ford threatened to sell all the shares in her name, unless Henry put Edsel's son Henry II in charge. Reluctantly he did....then the younger Henry hired the management cadre known as "The Whiz Kids", who earned their stripes during World War II with their success in prioduction logistics. The best known of the group was Robert McNamara, who became Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ.
Volkswagen Beetle wasn't inspired by Ford. It was copy of Czechoslovak pre-WWII car TATRA 97. Hitler saw Tatra, liked it and asked Porsche to make something like that for Germans. Porsche was friend of TATRA's main designer and was in time pressure, so he more or less copied the T97. Tatra sued Volkswagen, but Hitler said he will take care of it. Soon he invaded Czechoslovakia. Problem solved. After WWII the process was renewed and Volkswagen had to pay TATRA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97
I almost wonder if you took this straight from Wikipedia, or if Wikipedia copied your video, because I swear they both say the same thing almost word for word when I'd gone and read this very same subject there before watching this video.
Indy I missed this channel somehow with the DicKtionary ? Are you going to have a Trophy or award for the People that you Profile . If so what will the trophy be shaped like ?
Hi Indy and crew here are the top pics my friends and i thought of some good people and some controversial-bad ones too Princess Diana Winston Churchil Karl Marx Karl Döniz Carl Duisberg Carl Bosch Fritz Haber Michail Timofejewitsch Kalaschnikov Leopold II of Belgium König Karl XII von Schweden Willhelm II von Preußen Engelbert Dollfuß Erwin Rommel Werner Siemens John D. Rockefeller Mayer Amschel Rothschild George Soros John Fizgerald Kennedy Francisco Franco Ho Chi Ming Andrej Sacharow Idi Amin Pope Urban II Eugene Stoner Prince Eugen van Sovoyen Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz Martin Luther Ronald Regan That would be some interesting figures for all viewers and meny interestig storys for timegost to meny timeframes countrys and situations. and quite a bunch of reserch for you if you make them but thats my wishlist and i really hope you make more of such i thought abaut controvertial figures of time that no more live today (except Sorros)
Rommel was interesting, he was really rude to his superior officers on many occasions. He was absolutely despised by Franz Halder for example. But it's worth pointing out that among his troops, he was absolutely beloved. The only other German general who enjoyed such loyalty and love from his troops was Kesselring. While Rommel was a very... no-nonsense character, who never said anything diplomatically, he also really cared for his troops, treating them like people rather than resources. They loved him for a reason. Including him might be a good idea to dispel some of the myths that have arisen around him, mostly coming from historical revisionists.
Marshal Malinowski wanted to drop Indy on Cuba to sledgehammer the crisis out of the way, but Marshal Ivanov loved the bombs too much. He was deployed by Gorbatjov to singlehandedly 'tear down that wall' in 89 though....
The US 8th Air Force raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing Factory cost 60 B-17s with their ten-man crews, plus numerous other losses in killed, wounded and written-off aircraft. The ball-bearing production, vital to the German war machine was severely curtailed. Yet Germany continued to produce the planes, tanks and other war materiel reliant upon the availability of ball-bearings. The reason, it turns out, is that Germany was receiving a steady supply of U.S. produced bearings via a circuitous route to South America, then to Sweden and on to German factories. The source of these bearings? Why, the Ford Motor Company, of course...............................................
( générale Dominique rené Vandamme and jean claude are the same ) yeah he was in blood sports and the battle of austerlitz LOL .INDY is the best . great work again timeghost
After the CONCEPT a relatively simple, but reliably constructed car from comparatively cheap parts, assembled in mass production to make it even better af-FORD-able... The KdF Wagen was supposed to bring a good value for the price down into the working man's range, they even had a weekly savings plan that would let you pay the complete 1000 Reichsmark in 8 or 10 years making you a car owner then... Even if you didn't qualify for a credit or didn't have large stacks of spending money.
It wasn't. It was more or less copy of Czechoslovak pre-WWII car TATRA 97 which Hitler saw at industrial exhibition, liked it and asked Porsche to do something like that for Germans. Porsche was friend of TATRA's main designer and was in time pressure, so he kinda copied the T97. TATRA sued Volkswagen because of it, but Hitler said he will take care of it and soon invaded Czechoslovakia. Problem solved. After war Volkswagen had to pay to TATRA. Funfact: TATRA is 3rd oldest car maker in the world and they were behind first aerodynamic car - Tatra 77. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97
edison himself is also worthy of his own dicktionary, the abuse of those that worked for him, claiming their ideas as his own, his colossal blunders in trying to ruin tesla, and his attitude towards those wanting to use 'his" patents.
he's on the list of potentials
AC is a bit more dangerous since the frequency content of the signal allows for the impedance to be lower with AC. Meaning that with AC a human body (that have a fairly large capacitance) can allow for larger currents/power. But AC is allot easier to generate and transform between voltages compared to DC which is why it’s used in most power grids.
kjellman9999 Edison tried to execute an elephant and a man with ac, neither worked and both essentially burned to death.
I know and I agree that he was a dick. I only want to point out that AC is a bit more dangerous at lower voltages then DC . It’s mostly an interesting fact (and also a plead for anyone to keep their forks away from the wall socket).
He invented the electric chair and electrocuted an elephant to discredit Tesla
You should make one on Woodrow Wilson.
Wilssssooooonnnnn!
@@larryryan8742 I was about to say that
This is a requirement
What about Rockefeller? Became rich by illegal means, but donated a large portion to charity. That's something that'd fit the series.
Also, nice cushion.
Noted - thx
Is the cushion Jean Claude Van Damme as a Napoleonic French Officer? I mean it's just a guess.
@@TimeGhost M for Monopoly would be fitting
THAT WOULD go more into a socio-political angle, I'm hoping Indy will do a series on Zinnian-style history,, LEANING TOWARDS a more socialistic view... The Cutthroat capitalist view is already presented in exhaustive abundance and variety other places... And I believe Indy and crew are very wisely avoiding specific stands in their history series presentation... But these anti-establishment clips are getting VERY popular...
@@TimeGhost I know that this is a year old but since this is starting back up, if you do an ep on Rockefeller, you could have it be "O is for Oil", or, as @Dairy Peak! RL said, "M for Monopoly" if you are really excited and can't wait
Do Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Walter Duranty who helped Stalin cover up the mass starvation in the Ukraine. He was so bad that there was even an attempt to revoke his prize.
They ought to make a "Duranty" award just to punish bad or outright malevolent journalism.
Duranty! I spit on your grave.
I hoped C is for Good old Conrad
There so many letters for good old Conrad - I for Idiot, H for Hack, M for Moron, X for Xenophobia, Y for Yellow, Z for Zerstörer .... there's literally no end to it.
TimeGhost That makes me happy.
I get the other why I,H,M,X and Z but what is meant by yellow?
nirfz yellow means cowardly? Idk
He was also one of the few manufacturers in Detroit willing to hire African-Americans. He also created one of the first archives for corporate records, as he had his early Ford Company and personal records saved for future researchers and scholars. He also created Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum in an effort to save important buildings and early American machines, cars, farming equipment, and general Americana long before many institutions had.
His anti-semitism though was pretty bad, but also fairly unfortunately common at this point in American history. And unlike most, he had the money and influence to popularize it. He is a mixed bag of good and bag which is a common matter with many American legends sadly.
Like the standing/gesture-object presentation man,, this IS A PERFECT format for adults and ESPECIALLY kids,, because you OBVIOUSLY ENJOY the act of teaching... and that communicates instantly...
Thank you! We appreciate it and thrilled you like us.
This series deserves more views
Why thank you....
That Jeanne Claude van Damme pillow in the background killed me with laughter.
Like the rhyme at the beginning.
another ad said , watch the Fords, Go Buy
Woodrow Wilson ( for allowing American industry to sell guns to the allies during ww1, a test to our neutrality and I would argue violation of American neutrality, for segregating DC and the American armed forces.
MacArthur would be cool too, both because of the bonus army and events of the Korean War ,don't want to spoil a possible future project :)
Keep on keeping on Indy and Spartie :)
I heard somewhere that the goon squad which monitored and investigated his employees was called the Department of Sociology. They investigated DV, family neglect, alcoholism, etc, and would also break in and look for company tools or supplies. He was big in aviation. I don't know if he helped develop the tri-motor aircraft, or if it was Germany, or if it was simultaneous, but Ford trimotors were in wide use in the 30's.
it was both according to hist channel fokker developed and henry stole the design by observation
@@lelonfurr1200 That would make sense. Why reinvent the wheel?
After your T-shirt no one will beleive that you are not kept in Spartacus’s basement.
Actually, it was a garden shed... for two years. Now Bastian who edited this is kept there, so we gave Indy a t-shirt to remember.
Spartacus Olsson how nice of you
D for drugs talk about Pablo Escobar.
Good call.
P for Plata o(r) Plomo.
Pablo can still make it.
more like the Sackler Family who've killed more people than Pablo ever did!
and btw, these historical docu's are what make me pay for utoob premee.... really wonderful and extraordinary work, and I am very grateful, would love to see you guys publish 20th history texts for 21st century American high school education. this is one of the few positive out growths of the internet in my life...
Love the show and history.Keep up the good work
Hey! As much as I hate ads, there are ads on this series! Congratulation guys!
I feel like Fordlandia should have made an appearance
Rubber plantation that didn't work out because of a parasite if you plant rubber trees too close together.
"A-ford" Ahaaha, I think I'm getting old because I find that way more funny that it has any right to be.
Love the Van Damme pillow by the way Indy
Thanks for the illuminating video! One suggestion however would be if you would also show the year numbers on screen when you mention them. Would make it a bit easier to follow for us non-native english speakers who are also obsessed with dates.
Good idea, we'll experiment with that and see if it works.
One tiny point: Horde is a bunch of guys*. Hoard is a cache of cash.
* "For the Horde!" -Deathscream
*He's guilty of hoarding." -Revenue Agent.
That video just cracked me up 😀 Great video and great presentation 👏👏👏 Give us more of these!
Love this channel and the other ones (WWI, WWII, etc). I was thinking Frederick Taylor , if not already mentioned, might qualify as a person who kinda ran with a sound idea of efficiency and took it to the "dick" level. I have only read a limited amount about him but this is my impression so far.
That's a very lovely guitar on the wall, I'm not sure what the video was about but that is a very lovely guitar on the wall. It's a shame people kept standing in front of it.
It is a lovely guitar.😍
I half expected this one to be Conrad von Hotzendorf
Well, there's another 23 letters still to go in season one... H for Hack? I for Idiot? M for Moron? So many choices for good old Conny
TimeGhost too many good choices indeed.
Love this. Outstanding work and a great and entertaining view of history. Keep up the great work, Indy, here and everywhere graced by your work.
oh, and 1st I suppose.
Thank you ever so much
E for Empire or P for Pasha: Enver Pasha, for his involvement in getting the Ottoman Empire fighting in the first world war. His many military blunders during the war.
He's on the list of potentials.
Funny you put this out today, I've actually been editing my Ford series into 1 full-length video (over an hour long hah). Dude basically won ww2 for the Brits and Russians will all his tank production. And fun fact: he ran for Senate as a Democrat even though he was Republican because he was friends with Wilson, who asked him to oppose the Republican candidate.
And Willow Run plant was run by Edsel. The company as a whole was run by Ford. You think he would let a union ally, even if family, have that important of a job?
And everything he did to help his employees and try to curb the great depression deserves some good points lol. Singlehandedly bailing out banks and revitalizing entire towns economies. Still a lot of dickish stuff there so I'll give you that.
B-List History look forward to seeing the finished video! There’s no denying that he had good sides and bad sides. I’d take issue with his wholehearted support for the Allied war effort though - while formally still the chairman, he had no real power by then and operationally it really started on Edsel’s watch. Some say he even opposed it, but we haven’t seen any evidence to the veracity of that. In any case, even after Edsel died in 43, Henry regained only a portion of his previous powers.
Somehow I just discovered this chanel. Indy you are an entertaining man. Multi-faceted even. And a nut in a good way.
Well... Shit.
I have owned 4 cars in my life to date. Two of them were Fords and I have been happy with both of them. Now off to get a Jeep :)
is that a jean claude pillow?! thats ......disturbing in many ways
Great show as always. One thing: Ford did indeed have a more dickery on an industrial scale which you missed, Indy. It was his rubber plantations in Brazil. In the 1910-20 years, hundreds of Native Brazilians were enslaved on these plantations (not all owned by Ford) as Robert Casement exposed. Later in the late 1920’s Ford pushed to have a monopoly on Brazil rubber production and created a “worker utopia” called Fordlandia, which eventually collapsed after doing great environmental harm. So add another dick point!
"Jew Jitzu"
Nice.
Keep up the good work Indy and the gang!
That guitar could be from the dodgy end of British early 70s glam bands, Mud or the mighty Chicory Tip, nice!
How does this video only have 10k views
only now i heard ''Ford made the car people could af'Ford''.
this is great.
D is for Dick (Richard Nixon)
E is for Empire (Plenty of options there)
F is for Franz (Ferdinand)
G is for Germany (Another one with plenty of options)
I is for Indian (Andrew Jackson)
J is for Jackson/Johnson (Plenty of Democratic presidents to choose from)
L is for Leopold (King Leopold II of Belgium)
Just a few ideas I came up with. :)
M is for Music(Richard Wagner): Not only was he notoriously anti-Semitic even for his period, he was so enamoured with himself that he set up a music festival devoted to his works alone, one that still runs annually.
Correction: VW Beetle was based on Tatra (Czech car company)
In 1961 Volkswagen paid Tatra 3,000,000 Deutsche Marks in compensation
Well at least Edsel was featured in a great song.
“Edsel is a no go” We Didn’t Start the Fire
WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE IT WAS ALWAYS BURNING
And the group known as the Edsels,, with the doo-wop classic "Rama Lama Ding Dong"
Hey, here's a suggestion for the World Dicktionary
How about Peter I of Russia?
He was an incredibly intelligent man who founded the Russian Empire, and is known as "The Great" for good reason, but he was also an unbelievably cruel and ruthless man, who treated his people like resources, showed no empathy what so ever, and was incredibly heartless with his family.
In 1698, there was an uprising against Peter's rule which he stuck down with incredible brutality. 4000 people were tortured, and 1000 were executed.
To quote Wikipedia
"Peter availed himself of savage tortures while investigating the incident. Many suspects were whipped to death with the knout, an extremely stout leather whip composed of numerous twisted strands. Many were stretched until their limbs broke; sophisticated iron thumbscrews were applied to the fingers and toes of some prisoners; while other had their backs slowly roasted or had their flanks and bare feet slowly torn apart with red-hot iron pincers.
Peter thus induced suspect after suspect to name accomplices in a virtually unending cavalcade of forced, and likely often fake, confessions. As a result of a major investigation, 57 Streltsy were executed and the rest sent into exile. Upon his hurried return from London on 25 August 1698, Peter I ordered another investigation.
Between September 1698 and February 1699, 1,182 Streltsy were executed and 601 were whipped, branded with iron, or (mostly the young ones) sent into exile. The investigation and executions continued up until 1707. The Moscow regiments, which had not participated in the uprising, were later disbanded. Streltsy and their family members were removed from Moscow."
Two years later, he went to war against Sweden, where he once again made himself famous for his brutality and heartlessness. Peter conscripted peasants, gave them a few days of training, only armed half of them with muskets, and then sent them off to fight the Swedish army, which was at that point the most disciplined fighting force in Europe. After losing 30,000 men in a single day, Peter reacted with complete apathy. They had died in droves because he hadn't bothered to train them or equip them, sending them off to fight the most disciplined army in Europe even though he knew that would probably get slaughtered.
And when they did, he couldn't even feign sadness at their deaths.
Later on in the war, he was quite happy to let his Polish and Saxon allies get destroyed by the Swedes while he went on a plundering and raping rampage in Swedish Livonia (Modern day Latvia and Estonia) where he burnt down dozens of towns, killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately.
His indiscriminate slaughter of civilians was even more dickish when you learn that earlier, Sweden had showed remarkable kindness to Russian prisoners, only disarming them before letting them go.
This mercy was repayed by Peter by burning down cities and killing everyone inside, men, women and children alike.
Now, I think all of that is enough to qualify Peter I as a world-class dick
But there's even more to go through
He wasn't just a cruel, heartless leader, but he was also an incredibly barbarous father and husband. After he heard rumours that his son was involved in a conspiracy, he had him arrested, tortured, and was going to execute him, but he died in prison beforehand.
He apparently put needles under his sons fingernails, horrifically torturing him for days, forcing him to finally confess.
He did that to his own son.
Father of the year award right there.
He also had his ex-wife, the mother of his son, tried on false charges of adultery and imprisoned
It is also alleged that after he learnt that his wife had a lover, he had the lover tracked down, arrested and publicly beheaded in the Red Square, before his wife and daughters. He had the head of his wife lover pickled in a jar filled with liquor and forced her to keep it next to her bed.
He had done to same thing to one of his own mistresses earlier, who's head he kept in his own room.
So yeah, Peter I was a very intelligent ruler who made Russia a great power, but he was also a heartless psychopath, and I certainly think he warrants an entry in the Dicktionary.
I list Henry Ford as America's greatest hero
You were born on the same day as Mira Sorvino!Cool!
Let me guess that when square mustache man saw the Berlin sky full of B-24s, he tossed Ford's portrait into his fireplace.
Nein nein nein nein!
New coke has the best flavor to mask the taste of quaaludes. Zippity zoo puddin' Pops.
do I see 'the x files' dvds on the shelf behind Indy? Only the best series ever ;)
Originally the model T wasn’t even in Black (being in colors such as red and green), then it was changed to Dark Blue in 1912, then to Black in 1914.
Anybody who says the model T was "easy to drive" has never attemted to drive a model T... its nothing like a modern car! Maybe easy by the standards of those days, but 99% of people now wouldnt know where to start!
Is that a Vandamme pillow?
Quite a debunking, it's all coming true.
My Grandfather's Mom had a Model T,Gramps thought Henry was a total dick,he wouldn't own a Ford
My grandfather and grand uncle opened a Ford dealership in Sweden in the early 20s by importing a few dozen Model Ts and a whole bunch of Ford tractors (my family is from the sticks). Children and grandchildren bringing up Henry's less attractive sides at family dinners made for interesting silences....
Another bit of dickery is how Henry and Edsel acquired the funds to buy up the Ford stock held by others...including one time suppliers the Dodge brothers, who by that time had their own competing car company. Cars and parts were shipped en masse and unordered to dealers and wholesalers--all on C.O.D. terms. A significant number of them were wiped out...
Interestingly, at the end of World War II, with the company on shaky financial ground, Clara Ford threatened to sell all the shares in her name, unless Henry put Edsel's son Henry II in charge. Reluctantly he did....then the younger Henry hired the management cadre known as "The Whiz Kids", who earned their stripes during World War II with their success in prioduction logistics.
The best known of the group was Robert McNamara, who became Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ.
I have to say he was a great American
I understand that Henry Ford also made German Half-Track trucks at a plant just outside Paris...
and you didn't even get into that whole Brazil thing Ford created...
Volkswagen Beetle wasn't inspired by Ford. It was copy of Czechoslovak pre-WWII car TATRA 97. Hitler saw Tatra, liked it and asked Porsche to make something like that for Germans. Porsche was friend of TATRA's main designer and was in time pressure, so he more or less copied the T97. Tatra sued Volkswagen, but Hitler said he will take care of it. Soon he invaded Czechoslovakia. Problem solved. After WWII the process was renewed and Volkswagen had to pay TATRA. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97
Any of the conquistadors make the list? Pizarro, Ponce de Leon, Cortes, Albuquerque, de Quesada, de Soto, Coronado, Villalobos, and Legazpi?
What kind of guitar is that? I don't recognize it.
you guys rock!!!!
"Now this car was easy to drive." Said the man who's obviously never tried to drive a Model T.
As the film insert shows this was at best a questionable statement...
Wow didn’t know this side of Henry Ford.
RIP sweet prince.
I almost wonder if you took this straight from Wikipedia, or if Wikipedia copied your video, because I swear they both say the same thing almost word for word when I'd gone and read this very same subject there before watching this video.
Fort Motor invested and built vehicle production facilities in the USSR as well
So Ford was a great guy....
Who do you guys have planned?
How about Leopold 2nd of Belgium?
Genocide in kongo
up to 10 million people dead, countless more raped, tortured and mutilated - he might crack the dick scale though...
5/5 on the scale.
@@TimeGhost mutilated? You mean HANDicaped?
When will you do Conrad Hotzendorf?
We shall see... he fits so many letters ;-) I for Idiot, H for Hack, X for Xenophobe, Y for Yellow, Z for Zerstörer
You can do Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad now when he´s kicked the bucket...
D is for Dick Cheney
Skogsmard big alive dick
nice spetznas shirt.
Indy I missed this channel somehow with the DicKtionary ? Are you going to have a Trophy or award for the People that you Profile . If so what will the trophy be shaped like ?
James Bond
Which one?
TimeGhost Sean Connery is my personal favorite, especially since he was in A Bridge Too Far
But 007 isn't dead... thank M
@@TimeGhost As this is supposedly about real people it must be the Ornithologist *confused*
Hi Indy and crew here are the top pics my friends and i thought of some good people and some controversial-bad ones too
Princess Diana
Winston Churchil
Karl Marx
Karl Döniz
Carl Duisberg
Carl Bosch
Fritz Haber
Michail Timofejewitsch Kalaschnikov
Leopold II of Belgium
König Karl XII von Schweden
Willhelm II von Preußen
Engelbert Dollfuß
Erwin Rommel
Werner Siemens
John D. Rockefeller
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
George Soros
John Fizgerald Kennedy
Francisco Franco
Ho Chi Ming
Andrej Sacharow
Idi Amin
Pope Urban II
Eugene Stoner
Prince Eugen van Sovoyen
Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz
Martin Luther
Ronald Regan
That would be some interesting figures for all viewers and meny interestig storys for timegost to meny timeframes countrys and situations.
and quite a bunch of reserch for you if you make them but thats my wishlist and i really hope you make more of such
i thought abaut controvertial figures of time that no more live today (except Sorros)
That is an impressive effort - thank you so much!
Rommel was interesting, he was really rude to his superior officers on many occasions. He was absolutely despised by Franz Halder for example. But it's worth pointing out that among his troops, he was absolutely beloved. The only other German general who enjoyed such loyalty and love from his troops was Kesselring.
While Rommel was a very... no-nonsense character, who never said anything diplomatically, he also really cared for his troops, treating them like people rather than resources. They loved him for a reason.
Including him might be a good idea to dispel some of the myths that have arisen around him, mostly coming from historical revisionists.
Northfield Stradford.
"It was Walpole"
burns flyte on the wall like marc bolan!
Burns Flyte! ME WANT!!!
Dickishness(noun)-relating to, or being, in the state, quality, condition or degree of being a dick.
Source: urban dictionary
back when that coca cola commercial was the worst thing bill cosby ever did
Is that George Kastanza in the McDonalds commercial at 1:20?
yup
You only cover people who are dead? I long to hear your piece on Rupert Murdoch.
I miss the McDLT.
8k for a new car? wow, inflation is a bitch
I'm pretty sure Walter Reuther would classify Henry Ford a Di**, no doubt.
Odd question, but what type of shirt are you wearing? It looks quite like a telnyashka.
Didn't you know? Indy used be with the Spetsnaz back during the height of the cold war...
TimeGhost ah yes, nearly forgot. I remember hearing he was a tough fellow!
Yup, awarded both the Order of the Red Banner AND the Order of Lenin, simply for being a badass...
TimeGhost Wow, the Soviets didn't even need nuclear weapons, all they needed was a plane to send Indy to their enemies and victory would be achieved.
Marshal Malinowski wanted to drop Indy on Cuba to sledgehammer the crisis out of the way, but Marshal Ivanov loved the bombs too much. He was deployed by Gorbatjov to singlehandedly 'tear down that wall' in 89 though....
I used to looooove McDLTs...
1:28 is that George Costanza hawking burgers ??
GUITAR - What is it PLEASE? Seriously have never seen one. I am guessing 70s Japan maybe??????? Strilke that. Now I am guessing Italy
3:56 Models T & A. Henry Ford beat Elon Musk to S3XY with only two model numbers.
Was that Costanza?
Any video from Tomas Edison
Anyone know the guitar in the background?
The US 8th Air Force raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing Factory cost 60 B-17s with their ten-man crews, plus numerous other losses in killed, wounded and written-off aircraft. The ball-bearing production, vital to the German war machine was severely curtailed.
Yet Germany continued to produce the planes, tanks and other war materiel reliant upon the availability of ball-bearings.
The reason, it turns out, is that Germany was receiving a steady supply of U.S. produced bearings via a circuitous route to South America, then to Sweden and on to German factories.
The source of these bearings? Why, the Ford Motor Company, of course...............................................
lol just saw that jcv pillow LMFAO !
Indy has been waiting and hoping for that comment since the day he shot this episode ;-)
( générale Dominique rené Vandamme and jean claude are the same ) yeah he was in blood sports and the battle of austerlitz LOL .INDY is the best . great work again timeghost
Everyone can afford a Ford.
I've switched the F and the D on the front of my '73 F250......
So, the Volkswagon is modeled after the Model T? Expand upon this sometime.
After the CONCEPT a relatively simple, but reliably constructed car from comparatively cheap parts, assembled in mass production to make it even better af-FORD-able... The KdF Wagen was supposed to bring a good value for the price down into the working man's range, they even had a weekly savings plan that would let you pay the complete 1000 Reichsmark in 8 or 10 years making you a car owner then... Even if you didn't qualify for a credit or didn't have large stacks of spending money.
It wasn't. It was more or less copy of Czechoslovak pre-WWII car TATRA 97 which Hitler saw at industrial exhibition, liked it and asked Porsche to do something like that for Germans. Porsche was friend of TATRA's main designer and was in time pressure, so he kinda copied the T97. TATRA sued Volkswagen because of it, but Hitler said he will take care of it and soon invaded Czechoslovakia. Problem solved. After war Volkswagen had to pay to TATRA. Funfact: TATRA is 3rd oldest car maker in the world and they were behind first aerodynamic car - Tatra 77. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97
Has anybody IDed the guitar? Schencter?
That's FrankenSTEIN!
why have you got a cushion with Jean-Claude Van Damme printed on it ???????
lol ok if you say so :D
E is for Edison